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Follow Up Letter from Jonny – Looking Back and Forward
On December 18th I wrote an article about how God has been moving through JSAW. In that letter I also shared that JSAW needed $21,000 by...

Jonny Nelson
Jan 8, 20151 min read
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A Letter from Jonny
A Letter from Jonny I want to share a story with you. Several months ago a young man named Tim walked through our doors with his...

Jonny Nelson
Dec 18, 20142 min read
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Granite Peak Trip
Granite Peak Trip Date: January 16-19, 2015 Snowboarders and Skiers for Christ (SFC) along with JSAW and Help Board Shop will be hosting...

Jonny Nelson
Dec 12, 20142 min read
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Ian’s Last Day
Over the last 8 years I have had good times, hard times, laughed, been sad, and done some pretty epic stuff with JSAW and its partners....

Jonny Nelson
Dec 1, 20142 min read
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Kick’n It Off
On November 20th we held a kickoff party for SFC Hyland, (our snowboard ministry). The turn out was great. We were able to serve about 30...

Jonny Nelson
Nov 25, 20141 min read
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God’s Movement
Have you ever hit a rough patch? I have! Looking back it is mostly because of my own blunders, but sometimes it seems like things just...

Jonny Nelson
Oct 4, 20143 min read
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SFC Snowboard Program
SFC Snowboard Program About SFC Small Group Thursday’s 4 – 9pm, November-March A private small group of guys dedicated to snowboarding...

Jonny Nelson
Sep 1, 20141 min read
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Skate Trip to Denver
August 11-15 the boys of JSAW, alongside our friends at Foundation Skate Ministry from Illinois, successfully had ourselves a time of...

Jonny Nelson
Aug 19, 20141 min read
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Twin Cities Action Sports Fest
Twin Cities Action Sports Fest Date of Event: Sunday, September 7th, 2014 from 10:30am-4pm Location: Grace Church, 9301 Eden Prairie Rd.,...

Jonny Nelson
Aug 12, 20141 min read
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Help Board Shop’s 1st Birthday
Help Board Shop’s 1st Birthday On August 23rd Help Board Shop will be turning 1 year old, so we are throwing a party and you do not want...

Jonny Nelson
Aug 11, 20141 min read
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God and the Desires of Your Heart
August 28th, 2009 God met me where I was and I said yes to Him for the first time. In Mark 7:20-23 Jesus said, “What comes out of a...

Jonny Nelson
Aug 10, 20142 min read
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Sweet Corn Days
Saturday, August 2nd Ian and I with the help of our friend David Terro brought our mobile skatepark to Estherville, Iowa’s annual Sweet...

Jonny Nelson
Aug 6, 20141 min read
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Serving at Gnarbeque
Wednesday July 30th was our Gnarbecue event at the Eden Prairie Skate Plaza. About 35 riders came out for some competition, good times...

Jonny Nelson
Aug 5, 20141 min read
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My Last Day
Based on the title alone I’m sure you have figured out what the end goal of this post is about. I want to assure you that it’s about more...

Jonny Nelson
Aug 2, 20143 min read
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SonShine Fest: Serving in the Midst of Chaos
This weekend JSAW’s crew was out at SonShine Festival in Willmar, MN hanging out with thousands of people jamming to bands like Need to...

Jonny Nelson
Jul 20, 20142 min read
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Rock the Boat
WakeWell Minnesota is a newer ministry to the Midwest. This summer we have been just trying to raise up a group to take out on the boat...

Jonny Nelson
Jul 17, 20142 min read
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Denver Road Trip
Denver Road Trip August 11th-15th [button link=”https://jsaw.org/signup/” color=”green” size=”large” target=”_blank” title=””...

Jonny Nelson
Jul 16, 20141 min read
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Zach’s Story
Zach’s Story Zach has been skating at Help Board Shop since before the park even opened about a year ago and is learning new tricks every...

Jonny Nelson
Jul 16, 20141 min read
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Why I love Help Board Shop: A Mother’s Perspective
Why I love Help Board Shop: A Mother’s Perspective What do I like about Help Board Shop? Why do I support it? Easy. The purpose, the...

Jonny Nelson
Jul 13, 20142 min read
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HELP Board Shop Skate Camp
This past week we had a skate camp in our park. We had five skaters come for the whole week, our numbers were a bit lower than we had...

Jonny Nelson
Jun 30, 20141 min read
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