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Sports celebs, friends and the faithful join hands & hearts as Team Hope electrifies Paoli

October 14, 2025 by Caroline

The late great Flyer, Bernie Parent, the very much alive Hall of Fame Villanova basketball coach, Jay Wright, and pro hockey phenom Johnny Gaudreau, lost tragically to a drunk driver while bicycling last year, have something in common – and it has nothing to do with sports.

Each has been a standard bearer for Team Hope – an extraordinary local movement, more than 6,000 strong, part tent revival, part Woodstock – that rocks St. Norbert’s in Paoli every few months.

Filed Under: Uncategorized Tagged With: Bernie Parent, Ed Morris, friendship celebration, healing service, Jay Wright, Johnny Gaudreau, prayer service, St. Norbert, St. Norbert Church, Team Hope, Villanova basketball

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