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Souza, 27, is preaching to his congregation: members of GodSquad Church, what appears to be the world’s first online-only church for video gamers.

He founded GodSquad, registered as a nonprofit organization under the evangelical Assemblies of God denomination, in 2016 with a mission — to bring God to the gaming community, a population he said skews atheistic and tends to dislike religion.

Since then, GodSquad Church has taken off.

The channels are filled and manned at all hours; GodSquad Church benefits from the services of roughly 50 volunteer leaders, who help the church function by praying for congregants and helping Amanda moderate the chats.

Valerie Lennert, a 44-year-old self-described “hardcore gamer” who lives in Houston, discovered GodSquad Church a few weeks before her mother — her best friend — died of breast cancer.