13th June: Holy Half-Pipe!

Holy Half-Pipe!

A Methodist Chapel in Cornwall has broadened its appeal by building a skate ramp insidethe church!. The chapel at Polzeath is hoping a younger generation of worshippers will get off the beach on Sunday mornings and into church.

Out has gone the pulpit and communion table and in has come a plywood-formed half-pipe at the Polzeath chapel, now renamed the Tubestation.

And it all has the blessing of the local Methodist Minister, Gareth Hill. who said: "We had been looking at ways of speaking to the generation of skaters and surfers and we thought 'let's go for it'.The chapel has been changed in every sense and mainly because now we're full."