Gabriel Medina, with the best Olympic shortboard mark (9.90), described what has become a viral image of Paris 2024 using the words of Philippians 4:13.

The Brazilian Italo Ferreira went through an odyssey to qualify for Tokyo2020. “God has made my dream a reality”.

“A friend didn’t know this was a church, she was amazed that a church includes dance or surf or other activities”.

Surf Church started in a living room in Porto, and now they offer dance classes and children work. “We would to see that church reproducing into more and more communities of Jesus followers”.

Around 280 people attended the Christian Surfers International Gathering in France. Phil Williams: “At the heart of what we do is our relationship with God, and how we react in our community”.

Having thrown off a religious sensibility, our death-haunted culture needs to squeeze every last drop of experience out of our limited existences, before it all slips away.

Christian Surfers seeks to make the practice and culture of surfing consistent with the values of Jesus Christ. “This is about loving our neighbor and serving others”.

In Fiji, the surfer beats world number one Tyler Wright. Hamilton lost one arm after a shark attack when she was 13 years old. Her story and faith was explained in the film 'Soul Surfer'.