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Members of Virginia’s White Tail Chapel attend service naked

Posted at 12:01 AM, Feb 11, 2014
and last updated 2014-02-11 00:01:06-05

This is a congregation that often worships the same way God brought them into the world, unadorned and unashamedly, naked!

Pastor Allen Parker was there to bare his soul to Christ and lead his flock down that path of righteousness, no matter what they had on.

Every Sunday,  in the front few rows of White Tail Chapel, you'll find Katie and Robert Church.

Katie wasn't a nudist when they first met but quickly fell in love with both Robert and the resort. They married at the church and now have their own weekend getaway, on premises.

This church has given them a sense of Christian community, and they say with none of the pretense of a traditional church.

If you think anyone there finds church attendance titillating you'd be wrong.  They're there to find inner peace, and Pastor Parker believes that starts with accepting themselves.

"There's not a feeling that you have to be better than one another, physically. We're humans, we have scars, we have what we have. It's learning to love and accept that,” says Parker.