180 SK8 Ministry 08

Many get our email updates and newsletters, but thought we'd also do a posting on this great blog site we have---thanks to our son, Dan!

Last summer we held skate jams every Friday night at a church parking lot in Belgrade. We had ages 7 to 17 and averaged about 20 kids each time. We held jams from the end of June (when it stopped raining) until the end of October. We had two fun skate competition nights with about 30 kids each time.

Now we are excited to have our first indoor skate park, (bubble-shaped building provided by the same church, lumber for ramps donated by local lumber shops, drill donated by local hardware store) small building, but accommodating for several skaters at the same time on one half-pipe ramp that our partners, Matt Cruize, Dan Barnes, and Doug Duschene built. Matt and Doug are adult skaters that are also working with the kids every Friday night. They are awesome. Mike stops the skating midway to sit the kids down and share a gospel message from the Bible each session. They tend to really listen to him.