Church softball leagues aren’t new, but the way First Baptist Church Butler’s started is maybe a little different than most — it started as a Sunday night fellowship opportunity.
“In the summertime, a lot of time Sunday night services are not well attended,” Pastor Jason Moye said.
As church leadership thought through a variety of ideas for creating a fellowship environment on Sunday nights, one idea was to invite people to a local park to play softball.
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The informal event soon turned into a tournament among area churches and eventually a church softball league.
“The fellowship of that and how much fun everyone was having just fellowshipping together with our church people became, ‘What if we did this and got all the churches involved in the community?’” Moye explained.
The co-ed league consisted of three churches — FBC Butler, Heritage Church of God and Butler First Assembly.
‘So much joy’
“It was super hot, but it was really good with really good fellowship,” Moye noted. “We were able to come alongside other churches and get together and just have fun.?
Moye said sometimes people have the idea that if they become a Christian, they’ll never have fun again.
“That is so far from the truth,” he said. “There is so much joy to being a child of God.”
Heritage Church of God won the tournament, held July 12.
Colton Mozingo, a member and youth leader at Heritage Church of God, said it was a hot day but “tons of fun.”
“It’s always a good time when you get several churches together for a day of fellowship with some respectful smack talk mixed in,” he said.
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