The Flora-Bama Lounge, Package and Oyster Bar saw over 10,200 people for Easter Sunday church service.
During three services this week, 60 people were baptized in the Gulf of America.
"It's just so amazing to me how God chooses to use uncommon people to spread His love in uncommon places," said pastor Ben Ragsdale. "So many come from all over, every single week, just to see how does this whole 'church in a bar thing work?!' And every single week, people leave different than the way they were when they arrived."
"God meets people here every week, and it's beautiful," he said. "Easter was no exception! Thousands came to celebrate and thousands left changed forever!"
Worship on the Water started as a small gathering in 2011. The service has grown to average around 1,000 people each Sunday for services on the beach.
"What God has done and continues to do with the ministry is amazing," Flora-Bama owner John McInnis said. "God is meeting people right where they are and wants them to know his love, grace, forgiveness, and blessings."
"One of the many things God and Jesus have done with this church and ministry is to show us all how to BE the church, instead of trying to build a church," he added. "To think thousands and thousands have been saved and baptized because of a service at a world-famous honky-tonk beach bar is wild. But God's love for us is wild, and there is no place we can escape His love."
Worship on the Water at Flora-Bama holds church every Sunday at 9 a.m. and 11 a.m.
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