Rider Spotlight - Nick Torre Personal: My name is Nick. I am 16 years old and attend Jefferson High School. My family includes my parents, brother and myself. My hobbies and passions are skiing and skateboarding. My Hype Music: Punk and old … [Read more...]
North America Action Sports Ministry Summit At the end of October JSAWs Executive Director, Jonny, helped lead the North American action sports ministry summit in West Virginia at Camp Royal. This is one of five summits held around the world this … [Read more...]
All Nighter Report On Friday November 8th, JSAW had an all night lock in at Help Boardshop. This consisted of games, hanging out, eating pizza, reading scripture and lots of skateboarding. Throughout the event we got to discuss and teach some truths … [Read more...]
Volunteer Spotlight - Sherri Anderson Personal: Name / Career / Family / Hobbies / Passions: My name is Sherri "Buzzy" Anderson. I am a Special Education Teacher. My family consists of me, my husband and our 7 children. I enjoy … [Read more...]
Rail Jam Recap Greetings and Happy Fall! On October 26th we kicked off the upcoming snowboard season with our backyard rail jam event. Although there was a lot of work and preparation involved, the results made it well with it. For those of you … [Read more...]
Kathy's Last Day To the friends, family and leadership at JSAW, thank you for your support and feedback during my time here at JSAW. My last day with JSAW is Oct. 11, Friday. It has been a ‘ride’; I’ve had the opportunity to work in an industry I … [Read more...]
2019 Night of Action The Night of Action was an outstanding event again this year, with all kinds of fun family activities, everyone had a great time! There were animobiles to ride, a skatepark, jousting, beanbag toss, photo booth, virtual reality … [Read more...]
Rider Spotlight - Adam Hodson Personal: My name is Adam. I attend South View Middle School. There are 5 in my family - mom, dad, a brother and a sister. My favorite hobby is skating and my dream is to one day be a pro skateboarder. Favorite pro … [Read more...]
Andrew's Last Day To my friends and family, thank you for supporting JSAW during my time here. I started here at JSAW three years ago in September and on October 3rd I will be leaving to pursue a new career as an electrician. These three years … [Read more...]
Volunteer Spotlight - Linda Timberg Personal: Name / Career / Family / Hobbies / Passions My name is Linda Timberg and I work in the commercial insurance field. I have five daughters, two sons-in-law (one being Jonny Nelson), seven grandchildren … [Read more...]
Brazil Mission Trip Report JSAW recently sent a team of 7 riders to skate, serve and share the gospel in Brazil. We visited the cities of São Paulo and Curitiba. One of our volunteers, Marcel, grew up in Curitiba and helped Jonny lead our … [Read more...]
Summer Program Wrap-up Jonny As summer comes to a close and riders head back to school, we reflect back on all God has done in the past three months. We served 148 individual riders over 350 times through 2 weekly Bible studies, 3 weekly outreach … [Read more...]