Pokémon Goes to Church

Glendale UMC - Nashville, TN

Who says you can't have fun at church? More and more congregations are finding new faces in their parking lots, thanks to the popularity of a new game played on mobile phones.

The worldwide cultural phenomenon known as Pokémon, which originated in the late 1990's with a pair of video games and blossomed into a large franchise of licensed games, shows and toys, has returned in a big way with the release of Pokémon Go.

When you download and play this free, location-based augmented reality game on your mobile phone, you become a Pokémon trainer. The goal of the game is to walk around your neighborhood and city to catch as many Pokémon (short for pocket monsters) as you can.

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(Stevi UMC is  a PokéStop and a Pokémon can be found here.)