Christian Skaters is a Christian non-profit organization dedicated to sharing the Gospel of Jesus Christ with this generation’s global skateboarding community. Christian Skaters is a non-profit 501(c)(3) organization that relies on the financial support of churches, foundations, and individuals. We have been reaching out to the skateboarding community since the 1990s. Inspired from the movement of Christian Surfers, Christian Skaters was officially born in 2003. Christian Skaters felt a call to link arms with skate ministries from a number of countries to form an international movement.
Christian Skaters exists to equip and encourage those with a heart to share Jesus Christ with the skateboarding culture.
What We Do
- Christian Skaters helps other start skate ministries. Whether it casting the vision to their local church, creating a mission plan, establishing programming & discipleship, promoting, ramp building, revamping a current skate church or ministry, adding a pro shop, planning events or outreaches, bringing in pros, coordinating camps and clinic, or organizing a short-term skate mission…Christian Skaters is here to come alongside you to build a successful skate ministry.
- Christian Skaters helps build a strong body of skate ministries. Each year Christian Skaters hosts an international Skate Conference to equip, encourage and unite leader of skate ministries around the globe. We also partner with local ministries to host smaller regional events in place like the United Kingdom, South Africa, Australia, and others.
- Christian Skaters helps send skaters to GO and share the Gospel through Skate Missions. We send teams around the world to skate, build ramps, and share the Gospel through events, demos, contests, clinics, camps and more. We also send teams to plant skate ministries, train leaders and introduce the sport of skateboarding and the love and grace of Jesus Christ around the globe.
- Christian Skaters strives to impact the industry and reach skaters through a presence at industry events & social media. We also make it a priority to pour into and encourage those who love the Lord within the skate culture.
Our Goals
- To evangelize the skate communities around the globe
- To serve the local church world wide by providing a bridge between the church and the skate culture
- To network Christian skaters world wide to create unity and a strong body of believers equipped to share the Gospel
- To come alongside those called to share the Gospel with training, resources, and willing workers
Our Values:
EVANGELISM – We are evangelistic in intent and purpose on boldly sharing Christ, the gospel, and the Bible.
SKATERS – We mobilizing skaters to reach other skaters, with the truth, love, grace, hope and forgiveness of the Gospel.
SKATEBOARDING – We submit to serve and glorify Christ through skateboarding.
CHURCH – Are partner ministries are locally based and held accountable through a local Bible teaching church.
PARTNERSHIPS – We are working with God and what he is already doing through others, while respecting and partnering with other ministries. Our goal is to equip and empower others to share the Gospel.
RELATIONSHIPS - Ministry occurs through relationships. We are committed to reaching out to the skateboarding industry, meeting skaters where they are at, building relationships, and being His salt & light.
VOLUNTEER BASED – We are mobilizing Christian volunteers for outreach, while helping them fulfill their God given calling and potential.
Our Faith
We hold to an evangelical statement of faith. Our supreme desire is to know Christ and be conformed to His image by the power of the Holy Spirit. We are not a denominational ministry, nor are we opposed to denominations as such, only to their overemphasis of the doctrinal differences that have led to the division of the body of Christ. We believe there is one living and true God, eternally existing in three persons; the Father, the Son, and the Holy Spirit, equal in power and glory; that this triune God created all, upholds all, and governs all. We believe in God, the Father, an infinite, personal Spirit, perfect in holiness, wisdom, power, and love; that He concerns Himself mercifully in the affairs of men; that He hears and answers prayer; and that He saves from sin and death all who come to Him through Jesus Christ. We believe in Jesus Christ, God’s only begotten Son, conceived by the Holy Spirit. We believe in His virgin birth, sinless life, miracles, and teachings; His substitutionary atoning death; bodily resurrection; ascension into heaven; perpetual intercession for His people; and personal, visible return to earth. We believe that He is one and the same as God. He was fully human and fully God. We believe in the Holy Spirit, who came forth from the Father and Son to convict the world of sin, righteousness, and judgment and to regenerate, sanctify, and empower in ministry all who believe in Christ. We believe the Holy Spirit indwells every believer in Jesus Christ and that He is an abiding Helper, Teacher, and Guide. We believe that Jesus Christ baptizes the seeking believer with the Holy Spirit and power for service, either at the time of or subsequent to regeneration, which is a separate work from the indwelling Spirit for salvation. We believe in the present ministry of the Holy Spirit and in the exercise of all biblical gifts of the Spirit as reflected through the fruit of that same Spirit. We believe that all the Scriptures of the Old and New Testaments are the Word of God, fully inspired and without error in the original manuscripts, and that they are the infallible rule of faith and practice. We believe all people are by nature separated from God and responsible for their own sin, but that salvation, redemption, and forgiveness are freely offered to all by the grace of our Lord Jesus Christ. When a person repents of sin and accepts Jesus Christ as his/her personal Lord and Savior, trusting Him to save, that person is immediately born again and sealed by the Holy Spirit, all of his/her sins are forgiven, and that person becomes a child of God, destined to spend eternity with the Lord. We adhere firmly to the biblical teaching of God’s sovereignty and man’s responsibility. We avoid any theological systems of belief that go beyond the written Word and thereby divide the body of Christ. We believe in the universal Church, in the living spiritual body, of which Christ is the head and all regenerated persons are members.
A typical CS partner hosts a weekly Bible Study to disciple local believers. These local skaters are integrated into their skate communities and led by a team of leaders from supportive local churches. Typical activities include regular meetings and evangelistic skater-friendly Bible studies, contests, camps and day trips, skate clinics, skate missions and outreach at secular events reaching the skate culture. Each affiliated partner or ministry agrees to Christian Skaters’ vision, core values and statement of faith. A typical CS partner hosts a weekly Bible Study to disciple local believers. These local skaters are integrated into their skate communities and led by a team of leaders from supportive local churches. Typical activities include regular meetings and evangelistic skater-friendly Bible studies, contests, camps and day trips, skate clinics, skate missions and outreach at secular events reaching the skate culture. Each affiliated partner or ministry agrees to Christian Skaters’ vision, core values and statement of faith.
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9 Comments
26 August 11 at 10:25pm
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just wanted to say thanks! I enjoyed your site and am sending links to the skaters I know.
31 August 11 at 8:39pm
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i just want to know if there is these types of ministries in quebec or canada
03 September 11 at 7:58am
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Yes. Younglife does Skate Ministry there.
14 October 11 at 2:21am
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this is bhsakran doing sports minsitry for the past 12 years me as a basket ball playey and a coach ser ve thrlord reaching and teaching in the sport world. based at INida coving near by countries. please i like tto know the some o fsports ministr yactivites you do involve.
26 October 11 at 8:09pm
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I just want to say that this is really cool. I give my life to god, and there are many famous skaters that walk alongside us with god. P-rod and Christian Hosoi are our brothers in christ just to name a few.
17 November 11 at 8:05am
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Hi brethren, Love from Kenya, I am blessed today to have visited your web site; I thank God for His divine direction to you and your ministry. The web site is full of instruction based on the Bible. We pray that you will continue supporting us with more teaching materials and bibles to help us to grow spiritually in our ministry. Pray for the suffering children amongst us [church] that God's provision may be felt in their daily course. We will keep you in our prayers and we ask God to open up for you the means that will help you to come to Kenya to minister to the thirsting soul. God bless you abundantly. Yours in Christ, pastor Duncan
21 November 11 at 7:34pm
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Do you have trips planned in 2012? Are you looking for people to go with you?
08 December 11 at 7:23am
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Yes. We have a trip to Panama coming up in the beginning of June and will release the info and application soon.
08 December 11 at 7:24am
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May the Lord bless all of our brothers and sisters in Christ in Kenya!