🛹Learn About Shelter Skate Church🛹

This year, our Easter offering is going to Shelter Skate Church. They’re a 501(c)(3) nonprofit ministry based in our neighborhood, whose mission is to be a community within action sports where outsiders are welcomed and fed both physically and spiritually.

Every Sunday afternoon from 3–5 PM, they gather at the Poe Mill DIY Skatepark— a grassroots, community-built skatepark on the historic Poe Mill site — to skate, share a free meal, and hold a Bible study together. Their vision, rooted in Luke 14:23, is to go where skaters already are rather than expecting them to walk through traditional church doors.

Led by Josue and Jen Rodriguez, Shelter Skate Church officially began meeting weekly in 2022 and became a registered nonprofit in 2023. Beyond their regular Sunday gatherings — where they've served upward of 40 meals in a single session while studying books like Galatians — they also host skate jams, cookouts, and park cleanup days in partnership with other local churches. 

Everything they do is aimed at discipling within a family culture modeled after Jesus' ministry, especially for those who might feel like outsiders elsewhere.