WAYNESVILLE, N.C. — A lighthearted challenge issued by a western North Carolina pastor turned into a statewide movement of comedy and connection following this past weekend’s historic winter storm.
Bobby Rogers, lead pastor of Dellwood Baptist Church in Waynesville, said he was looking for a creative way to notify his congregation that services would be canceled Sunday, Feb. 1, due to snow.
“I just wanted to let our church know we weren’t going to have services, and I needed them to help spread the news,” Rogers said. “So I thought, ‘Well, I’ll do something to catch their attention.’ Thus the ‘Snow Angel Challenge’ was birthed, sort of in the moment.”…