The Freedom Place – A Story
A Little HistoryIt was nearly 20 years ago to the day that I had spent my last Sunday as an associate pastor and was without work and searching for a way to provide for a family of 4. Kristie and I weighed out different ideas and we asked ourselves the question, “What...
Summer 2024 – So much good stuff we needed 2 Newsletters!
Hey everyone, hard to believe that the summer of 2024 has essentially come and gone. School is back in session, and so are after-school activities and sporting events. But we would be remissed, if we didn't take some time to look back reflect and give praise for all...
The Long & Winding Road – Rubber Duck Derby 24′
Last year the waters were raging and we lost over a hundred ducks to the Gulf of Mexico. This year was the longest and slowest race that we've ever had. The race itself lasted nearly 30 minutes as the dry weather condintions and longer route lead to a very slow paced...
More Than Sports Camps – Summer 24’
What an incredible picture of heaven this summer at the more than sports camps!! This last week for playground set the all time record with 156 campers registered! We had 42 staff this week as well which made for an incredible time for all! The...
Summer Week 2 – Feeling Hot!
We just wrapped up one of the hottest summer camp weeks on record and it still was amazing!! What a blessing - we had over 100 kids again this week and with no power on Tuesday it was a bit challenging, but we are grateful for power restored and an amazing...
Jump Off – Skybacher Summer 24′ Begins
Hard to believe but already had a GREAT start to summer more than sports camps 2024!! We had 107 campers this week and filled both the elementary and middle school gyms with fun, encouragement, laughs, basketball and most importantly the truth of God's word with...
Slamrock 24 – Blessed to be back!
Slowly but surely we are rolling back some of the programs and events that we hosted annualy. This time it was our March event the 3-on-3 Slamrock, only now we were holding it in April. We had 2 elementary teams, 3 middle school teams, 4 Jr. High teams, and 5 High...
20 Year Celebration and Dinner Auction
It had been since 2019 that we had done a live auction in person. Like many things when the pandemic hit, we thought we might never have things return to what we knew. After several years of an online auction to raise funds for our summer camp program, we had...
Oh What a Night! – Great Big Group Date 24′
Oh What a night it was for our annual Great Big Group Date! Every year we try to plan a big group outing around Valentine's Day. This year we had to adapt to keep the prices low as the cost of everything seems to have gone up. We had dinner at Mcdonald's - maybe a...
20th Year Celebration and Dinner Auction – Tickets!
This March 2nd we are bringing back our in-person Dinner Auction and Celebrating 20 years of Skybacher Ministries - sports and youth ministry. We are hoping to get 20 tables of people to join us in the celebration and auction! You can get your tickets by clicking the...
Keep Going! – Newsletter Winter 2024
Check out and read our newest newsletter!?Celebrating year number 20 of sports and youth ministry!
New Year, A New Thing, Same God – Laser Tag Party
We were trying to think of a way to kick of the new year.??And we decided what a better way to get things started in 2024 then a little laser tag.?At Laser Storm, 22 of us ducked and dodged lasers throughout 3 games on the night.?At the break we had a message and...
Celebrating 20 years of Good Stuff – Turkey & Good Stuff 23′
Hard to believe that 20 years ago we were gathering baked goods from family and friends to start a spring up sports ministry, but that's exactly what we were doing in the beginning of November 2004. We eventually made enough money to purchase volleyballs, and had a...
A Bowl Full of Blessing – Cereal Bowl 23′
This November 19th we once again hosted our annual Flag Football Cereal Bowl. It was a beautiful day for football, and 19 teams came and battled it out on the day through 4 different age divisions. First off we always encourage students to donate a box of cereal that...
Dodgeball Pumpkin Blast 23′
It had been since 2019, since we had done our beloved Dodgeball Pumpkin Blast Tournament. Oh how missed it was! Nine teams of K-6th grade filled the gym, most wearing team themes - (the Fireballs, the Soccer Zombies, the Zelie Zombies etc.) The dodgeball action was...