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...

Summer Snowboarding and Sharing Jesus 90-degree weather, sunshine and Virginia are three things that you would not associate with...

Skatuary is Now Open in Denver, CO About a year ago, Uriel Luebcke, the pastor of a skate ministry, found out that after 5 years at the...

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...

Denver Road Trip August 11th-15th [button link=”https://jsaw.org/signup/” color=”green” size=”large” target=”_blank” title=””...

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...

Ryan Ries, co-founder of The Whosoevers, a cause-based movement set out to build and strengthen at-risk youth, tells his story of...

Today I am taking a short flight to Chicago to be a part of the Louis Palau Associations NGA ReFuel Conference. They asked me to share a...

Just 10 months ago Jonny Nelson and I (Ian Wheat) went and built an indoor skatepark in Battle Creek, MI. This past week Josh Franco and...

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...

Just arriving in North American theaters this weekend is The Perfect Wave, the true story of Ian McCormack.  Ian was a diehard surfer who...

Lately all the big action sports magazines and every other news outlet has been posting about ESPN Magazine’s latest: the Body Issue...

I recently came across an article floating around Facebook by Jon Foreman, the singer for the band Switchfoot talking about Why...

Do you feel dead? I always loved that line from Pirates of the Caribbean. Not just because it is morbid, but because of the reality of...

Leadership in an Action Sports Ministry Action sport enthusiasts don’t typically have leaders; they have idols.  In sports like...

New Zealand wakeboarder Brad Smeele was seriously injured while practicing on the Mega Ramp at Lake Ronix in Orlando, Florida on Sunday....

“For the moment all discipline seems painful rather than pleasant, but later it yields the peaceful fruit of righteousness to those who...

The 4th of July celebrates the United States independence from Great Britain remembering the day our country gained freedom! As a skater...

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...

CSALT Leadership Program in Africa At some point in your life I’m sure you’ve probably dreamed about taking an extended surf trip, about...