Aiden Franklin took the reins of FacePlant Ministries in January 2009 as Christian Jung, founder, and his family moved overseas as missionaries. Aiden served as SkateChurch pastor until he and his wife moved to Texas in April 2010 where he has family. During that time SkateChurch went through some transition. This always happens as ministries take on the flavor of those who lead the ministry. During this time SkateChurch changed from meeting on Thursday nights to meeting on Tuesday nights. The structure stayed similar, where there was always skating and Bible teaching, in fact, during those 15 months more than 10 young people gave their lives to Christ. The sponsored team transitioned more into a group who hung out with Aiden, going to many skateparks together and doing a second California skate tour for one week during Summer 2009. Small groups at SkateChurch began to happen every other week and then tapering off altogether to where it was more of a verse by verse Bible teaching. Aiden was super-pastoral with the youth who came out to SkateChurch and was, and still is a friend to everyone. The numbers of youth at SkateChurch have always fluxuated over the years. Many new kids came out and numbers leveled out to around 30 kids every Tuesday night.
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After Aiden moved, Joe Popi and Steve Miller ran SkateChurch for the next couple of months with a rotation of speakers including Ricky and Curtis. Chad Stevens took the reins at SkateChurch and has been overseeing it until now. Another skater named Zach Barazowski also helped out from the days when Aiden was SkateChurch pastor through when Chad was running SkateChurch. Some new ramps were given to FacePlant Ministries by Bad Monkey Skate Shop recently. Neither Joe, Steve or Chad are skaters themselves and have done a great job to help SkateChurch keep running.
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Christian Jung and his family have moved back to Vancouver from Africa on furlough from missions in August 2010 and will return to the foreign mission field again. He will be taking the riens once again in hopes to take FacePlant Ministries and SkateChurch to the next level, while getting back to the roots of the early FacePlant days where hundreds of kids would come, skate, and give their lives to Christ. Through all of the transitions, God has continued to use FacePlant Ministries to His glory. Thank you all, who have been a part of this great movement.
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Ricky Brewer, Brian Worcester, Curtis Christensen and Christian Jung
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