Hillsboro Skate Park ****
Hillsboro Skate Park is by far one of the best skate parks we've been to so far. A bunch of us got a chance to go to Hillsboro and Beaverton on July 21, 2007: Me, Jonas, Josh, Boomer, Codie, Collin, Jake, Caleb, Brandon, Jakoda, Dakota W., Eric, Dakota M., Austin and Aaron. We had been planning on going to Hillsboro for a couple of weeks. Then, in the weather forecast last week, it called for rain on Saturday. All of us on Team FacePlant prayed that God would hold back the rain so that we could skate Hillsboro Skate Park. God is so good. We felt a few sprinkles, but we got to skate Hillsboro the whole morning with no rain. Team FacePlant also got a chance to share their faith with other skaters at Hillsboro. They even handed out pocket gospels of John. One young man in particular, Carlos (pictured above) was very interested in knowing more about the Lord. We skated with him all morning and invited him to come out to SkateChurch on a Thursday. Hillsboro Skate Park is a great park for street skating. There are lots of cool pyramids, banks, hubbas, boxes and just a really good flow. You can skate from one side to the other really well. There is also a little pool and some quarter pipes for those who like to skate vert. We all ripped it up pretty good, landing most of our tricks. Check out the video we made of our trip to Hillsboro on this blog. I give Hillsboro Skate Park a 4 star rating.
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Beaverton Skate Park ***
Beaverton Skate Park is on the way back from Hillsboro and is a nice park as well. After hitting Taco Bell, we decided to try to find it. I called my wife who mapquested it for me over the phone. The thing is, it was raining from Taco Bell all the way to Beaverton Skate Park. When we arrived at the skate park, it had just stopped raining, but all the ramps and concrete were wet and had puddles of rain water everywhere. So we decided to have a Bible study in the middle of the skate park on one of the cement boxes. We even invited some other young people to join us. After studying in John chapter 3, we ended by praying that God would dry up the skate park so that we could skate it the rest of the afternoon for His glory. Within an hour after we prayed the skate park was bone dry. Another group of college students pulled up as we were praying and I got to share what we were doing and how God answered our prayer with him. He was very receptive. Beaverton Skate Park has a lot of vert ramps, half-pipes, mini-ramps all made from Skate-Lite. But for some reason the Skate-Lite on these ramps was less slick than some of the other parks we have skated. The transitions all seemed pretty smooth. The coping made it easy to hit stalls and such. They also had a cool small to bigger cement box that we skated. We had a lot of fun and decided that we would leave at 2:30pm. Right as we were leaving, it started to pour down rain. Praise the Lord for caring so much about us. You can check out some of the footage from Beaverton Skate Park on video on this blog. Overall, I give Beaverton Skate Park a 3 star rating.
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Christian Jung
Youth Pastor
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