The SFC Podcast

In this episode, Randy Schroeder sits down with G-Money to talk about the art of living out our faith. G-Money is a LEGEND in the ski/snowboard community, starting one of the first snowboard shops in the country. What makes G-Money rad is his humble approach to life and business. He exudes, as thefreepress.ca called it, a “quiet rebellion; [as] a pioneer of snowboarding, decades of stories lay behind his fervid yet humble demeanor.”

As a strong believer, G-Money has sought to live his life in a way that exemplifies Christ through kind acts of service (by leading his staff well, treating customers with respect, and by serving his local community). And it’s through these humble acts of service that G-Money has become a staple in the ski/snowboard community. We were honored to sit down with him, and we think his story will encourage you to “walk-the-walk.”

Can we be honest, even if it stings a little bit? Our culture has an identity crisis, doesn’t it? We don’t know WHO we are. And when we’re asked who we are, all we can think to do is provide a list of all the things we DO. Our identities have become wrapped up in fickle and fleeting actions and behaviors. You’ve seen this, right? Think about it for a moment. How often do skiers and snowboarders describe who they are by: 1) who they know, 2) what tricks they can do, 3) the places they’ve been, and 4) how many days they got on the hill? (Just to name a few). And while some of these things are pretty cool, they’re a shabby foundation to build your identity on. One moment they’re here, and the next moment...they’re gone. We need something far more stable. We need something lasting to base our identity on. And for us...that’s Jesus.

In this episode, on SFC’s “Identity” value, Joshua Stock speaks 3-time Olympic medalist (one gold), 14-time X-Games medalist (7 gold), and 2-time ESPY winner, Kelly Clark. If you grew up in and/or spent ANY time around the ski/snowboard industry, then you know the name Kelly Clark. Kelly grew up competing and is one of the winningest snowboarders of all time. Her list of accomplishments is nothing short of amazing. But even more amazing, in our opinion, is how she learned to not let snowboarding be her end-all-be-all. For Kelly, snowboarding was fun, but it wasn’t ultimate. So tune in. We know that you’re going to be blown away and challenged by Kelly’s story.

In the words of the famous Michael Scott, Regional Manager of Dunder Mifflin: “Relationships!? We don’t need no stinkin’ relationships!”

Relationships can be hard, can’t they? They require work. There’s a lot of effort that needs to go into forming, cultivating, and maintaining relationships. So if it’s so much work, then why bother? Great question. Thanks for (maybe) asking. They’re important because we were created to be in relationships: 1) relationship with God, and 2) relationship with others (both in the church and outside of the church).

In this episode, Josh and Randy dive into the SFC value of relationships. To help them navigate this tricky, but important, value, they interview long-time SFCer, Neil Richey. Neil is a Southern California native, and was one of the original pioneers of SFC Big Bear. Neil is known around the SFC community as the “relationship guy,” because he goes to extraordinary lengths to love on people through relationship. So tune in. This is a good one!

In this episode, Joshua Stock dives into the first of SFC’s six B.R.I.D.G.E values: believing. 

SFC defines this "believing" value as follows: “Our faith is grounded in biblical truth. We, as the Body of Christ, pursue a lifestyle of prayer and worship.”

Now, believing is such a loaded term, isn’t it? So while the definition above is great...what are we actually talking about here? How does a lifestyle of prayer and worship fit into this concept of believing? Isn’t belief just a mental assent thing? Or is it more than that?

To help him dig into this idea of believing a little more, Josh interviews one of his long-time friends, Jamie Mcleod. Jamie is a pastor in the ski town of Mammoth, CA who has an incredible heart for people. Jamie has spent a lot of time engaging with and caring for people in the Mammoth area (as well as around the globe), and has an incredible testimony of what it looks like to believe well in “dark places.” So using Jamie’s story, Josh and Jamie talk about what it means to believe well and highlight some of the obstacles we may encounter along the way.

In 2 Corinthians 5, the Apostle Paul tells us that we’ve been given the ministry of reconciliation. We’ve been reconciled to God through Christ, and now WE get to act as reconcilers. With the guidance of the Holy Spirit, we get to reconcile people back to God. What a crazy privilege and responsibility!?

But let’s be honest for a second. What does that actually mean? What does it actually look like to reconcile people back to God? After all, that’s not a word we use all that often. It sounds kind of “churchy,” right? Well, another way to think about reconciliation that might be helpful is to bridge one thing to another thing. So a reconciler, then, is someone who serves to bridge a gap. And that’s what SFC is all about...bridging gaps. In this episode, Josh and Randy discuss SFC’s mission statement: “to bridge the ski/snowboard culture to Jesus by partnering with the local church.”

In this inaugural episode of the SFC podcast, Joshua Stock and Randal Schroeder (the International Director and US National Director of SFC) talk about the Vision of Snowboarders & Skiers for Christ, which is “to be the light of Jesus in the ski/snowboard culture.”

In his famous Sermon on the Mount, Jesus told his followers that they are the “light of the world” and encouraged them to “let their light shine before others, so that they might see their good works and give glory to their Father who is in Heaven.” This is a pretty familiar teaching of Jesus, but sometimes familiarity breeds passivity. So while we may know that the people of God exist to be a light in a dark world, we sometimes struggle to understand what that actually means/looks like. 

In this episode, Josh and Randy spend some time unpacking what it could actually look like to be the light of Jesus in dark places (like the ski/snowboard culture).