The Freedom Place Work Day 26′ – Brightening Up the Place

We have had the privilege of ever since The Freedom Place became ours, to partner with the wonderful people of Portage Learning for a service work day each spring. This year over 40 people gather at The Freedom Place for several work projects on the day. Volunteers...

Slamrock 26′ – an absolute slam dunk!

March means many things, but for Skybacher Ministries it means the return of the 3-on-3 Slamrock Basketball Tourney. This year the event took place at the Freedom Area Middle School. There was an abundance of teams, as we had 26 in total through all divisions. It was...

Dinner Auction 26′ – Laughter was Seen & Heard!

A year ago at this time we held our annual Dinner Auction and dedicated the opening of The Freedom Place. This year we decided we would move things upstairs at the Freedom Place for our auction. The place looked amazing and it was soon filled with people ready to eat,...

Great Big Group Date 26 – Bowling, Pizza, and Big Fun!

The idea behind "The Great Big Group Date" is that no young person would spend Valentine's weekend feeling like they are unloved. We have been doing this event even before we were running Skybacher Ministries. This year 40 of us went to Sim's Bowling Lanes for some...

Not Too Cold – Broomball Blizzard 26′

The previous week we were in an actual blizzard, and this weekend it was a Polar Vortex of freezing cold temperatures, but that didn't stop us from hosting our annual Broomball Blizzard. Broomball is a sport played in many of the northern states, but we have been...

A Whole Lotta Good Stuff – Turkey & Good Stuff Volleyball 25′

It was all the way back in 2004 when our director met with the pastor of Unionville United Methodist church to propose the idea of hosting tournaments at their gym space. The first tournament would be a volleyball tourney. It was there that Skybacher Ministries first...

It’s All Over!!!

Friday we brought to a close an amazing summer of Skybacher Sports Camps.  2 Soccer camps, 2 Basketball Camps, 1 Flag Football Camp, 1 Mini-camp, slip-n-slides, funny characters, water games, cheese balls, donuts, laughter, tons of kids, an amazing staff of...

Soccer Camp – day 4 – Fun, Fun, Fun!

Today started off with Storm the Castle to work on dribbling, defending, and protecting the ball.  Papa G entertained us with more delicious donuts, and then a penalty shootout, with some World Cup.  Morning ended with our games and popsicles - another great...

Water Slide & Soccer – Can’t Get Much Better!!

Even with overcast skies, and not so hot temps, the campers had a blast on our Bonzai Water Slide today!  The morning was filled with donuts from Papa G, and 2 separate tournaments of soccer games.  Fun was had by all!!

Soccer Camp Day 2!!

Today our skills focus was Shooting and Passing, and we rotated through stations to work in smaller groups on those skills.  We also had some rigatoni spreusel donuts made courtesy of our guest, Papa G.  Our virtue of the day was sharing, and we had a great team...

Kick-Starting Another Soccer Camp!!!

Today we kicked off our final Sports Camp of the summer!  We had 70 kids!!! Which was overwhelming in the beginning, but such a blessing.  Our "Big Word" for the day was "Teachability" and hopefully some people learned some soccer!  Mr. John invited his friend Papa G...

The Final Day of Basketball Camp 2 09

We closed out our 5th Sports Camp of the summer. Professor J and Pop Quizzy took on J-Mo and Blender in a basketball showdown. We talked about teamwork, had a dunk contest, played the numbers game, threw some water balloons, showed off for our parents, and closed...

Basketball 2 – Night 4

Tonight was great as we talked about being "steadfast", being dependable and able to be counted on despite the circumstances.  Professor J & Pop Quizzy took us to Science class tonight where they disected a large frog, and did a Chemistry experiment that didn't...

BASKETBALL CAMP MOVED TO CHURCH AGAIN!!

We will keep basketball camp at Unionville church both Thursday & Friday evenings due to the chance of rain and thunderstorms.  Address again is 1297 Rte. 68 Rochester, PA  15074

Basketball Camp – Night 3!!

Thank God for the rain, and for Unionville Church that kept us dry and allowed camp to run smoothly.  We had a terrific night of team relay races to work on dribbling & passing, some 3 line passing drills, and team firing squad to work on our shooting.  Professor...

BASKETBALL CAMP MOVED DUE TO RAIN

Hey everyone! We are moving camp for tonight to Unionville UMC due to the rain.  Address is 1297 Rte. 68 Rochester, PA  15074 See you there!

Basketball II – Night 2

We had another great night of learning some fundamentals of basketball and working on our shooting form, while keeping the virtue of humility in mind through the example of playing some 4 square!!  Professor J had some art class with the campers, and brought out...

Basketball 2 – Night 1!!!

Our first night was great!  Professor J came and spoke to the campers about being Real, and being who God made you to be, and then our skills focus was dribbling and passing.  For the first night, games went great - we are looking forward to some great basketball this...

Mini-Camp Comes to a Close.

We just completed the first ever Skybacher Mini-Sports Camp.  It was challenging teaching a different sport each day, but we made it through and managed to have a lot of fun in the process.  The last day was spent playing flag football. We got a visit from Cranky D...