The Freedom Place Dedication & Dinner Auction 25′
It was a historic night for Skybacher Ministries on February 15th. This was the night that we dedicated our new community center/headquarters building The Freedom Place! It was last year on March 2nd that we held our first in person dinner auction since the pandemic....
A Blizzard Returns – Broomball Blizzard 25′
Back in the early days of Skybacher Ministries there were 4 staple tournaments that we hosted - dodgeball, flag football, volleyball, and a little sport called broomball. We have played broomball at Skybacher since the very beginning. It's a sport that is on a pretty...
Dodgeballs, Cereal, and Some Good Stuff!
We were very busy this fall working on things at the Freedom Place, but we felt like we still needed to host a few tournaments. In October we held our annual Dodgeball Pumpkin Blast at Provident Charter School. It was a new connection and was a great night of...
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...