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...

Cast Your Vote

We got some pictures of the new baby! It's showing off it's muscles already! Guess we got ourselves an athlete. But will we have a boy athelete or a girl! Cast your vote now!!

I’m 30 Years Old! Yikes

Well it's been a long time since I updated everything. I turned 30 on the 25th. Kristie and I just got back from Niagara Falls, she took me there for my birthday. It was really nice to have some peace and quiet. We've been busy working on a lot of stuff. Kristie has...

Ending on a good note

Well, we got our second win. It was the most satifying senior night I've ever had as a coach. We had a long season where most of the year we played with only 11 players. I kept telling the girls their perseverance would pay off, and it did in our final game as we won...

Go To Pizza Hut!!!

Hey folks, I really need to take some time and update you on all the news but I'm on my way out the door to my soccer game, to see if we can get win number 2, so this will be a quick one! Last Sunday we had a great time selling crafts and telling people about the...

Where A Kid Can Be a Kid

Well hopefully most of you have gotten our newsletter by now! Tomorrow I start working at Toy's R' Us to make some money to pay the bills. This weekend we will be down at Unionville Church at the craft show. We're selling garden turtles that we made from rocks from...

Olympic Size Dreams

I love the Olympics! I couldn't get enough of it. I stayed up every night until midnight waiting and watching to see who would win the gold medal each night. (Thank goodness they're over so I can get to bed at a reasonable time now). I couldn't imagine all the hard...

An Open Door

An answered prayer! Finally after weeks of anticipation and waiting we got the chance to meet with Unionville United Methodist Church, and they seem very open to allowing Skybacher Ministries to do programming. This is a big relief, they have an awesome facility that...

Back on the Hunt!

Kristie and I have been working hard on things for Skybacher Ministries Inc. We've got a few fund raisers planned. Two of the exiciting things we have will be in November. November 19th we are having a bake sale at Wal-mart, and Friday November 26th we are having a...

The Rain, The Son, and Lake Erie

We just got back from Erie and the Mohrbacher Family Reunion. We had a great time. The lake is so cold it was almost torture to swim, but what's Erie without a swim in the dirty lake? We had our first soccer scrimmage and it was ugly, I lost track of the score at...

Lions, Tylers, and Bears! Oh My!

Sunday we had Tyler's birthday party. It was his first birthday party rain-free. The Lord gave us a beautiful day. Anita made some great ham barbecue (I'm still eating some). Ty got a new bike and a scooter and lots of Spiderman stuff, I hear he's popular these days....

Where’s The Money

My job ends in 2 days! That's what I found out on Monday of this week, even though I was told we wouldn't be done until the 14th. It's probably better that it's ending because I might lose it on somone. They said they don't have enough money to pay us, for another...

It’s Official!

Well Skybacher Ministries is official. We got our tax id number in the mail today which means the government has acknowledged us as a corporation. We should recieve our actual articles of incorporation by the end of the week. Last week Kristie and I celebrated 8 years...

The Traveling Carnival

Tonight we had our second unofficial event for Skybacher Ministries. It went really well. We were back at the projects in Ambridge and we took with us 4 volunteers and enough equipment for 8 different carnival games. The kids loved playing Rockin Knock Down, Crazy...

Hold Me Jesus

Well sometimes my life don't make sense at all, when the mountains seem so big and my faith just seems so small, so hold me Jesus cause' I'm shakin like a leaf, You have been my King of Glory, won't you be my Prince of Peace.- Rich Mullins Those words seem to ring...

Wow It’s Hot!!

Yike's has it been hot! I feel like I'm sitting here melting. Yesterday for the fourth we went to a picnic and down to Pittsburgh for the fireworks. That is always entertaining. Yesterday at the picnic a few people referred to me as the Skybacher ministry guy! That's...