Empower youth and communities through the power

of the Gospel and shaping surfboards

Youth transformed and

empowered to transform others

We believe that God is the maker and shaper of the world, and of everything in it. He loves each person, and wants to have a loving, honest, and full relationship with us all. This inspires us to do the same.

We believe everyone is valuable no matter what; and that people who know they matter feel more empowered to be themselves and empower others. We help people to know they matter.

We believe that locals hold the key to local transformation. We build relationships with locals, respect local cultures, and beliefs, and partner with locals to transform the world. We honour indigenous peoples as the truest locals.

 We believe that people, just like surfboards, are made with purpose . We believe that surfing and surfboards can connect youth with something deeper, and that the lessons learned in shaping and surfing a board can transform a life forever.

We offer relational mentorship to youth that help them transform their communities

We work with locals to offer transformational youth and community activities.

We offer various shaping lessons and programs that make a difference for youth and communities.

We partner with TPB Surf Co., to help transform youth and communities through social enterprise.

We partner with people like you to make boards for groms who need one! We look for the youth in our communities who would benefit most from a free board, and YOUR donation makes that happen! If you want, you can even help us design, and build the board! Got a Grom you want to sponsor? We can do that! Just let us know! We also use donations

Wanna sponsor a grom, but don't have the cash? Give us your old board, we'll fix it up, sell it, donate it, or use it to help a grom get out in the water! You can still help with design, repair, and building! We can also refurbish old boards to make them new for a grom!

Groms can apply, or be nominated to get sponsored by TPB. Sponsored Groms can get stickers, merch, mentorship, gear, coaching, free boards, and more! You can sponsor a Grom by covering or helping to cover these costs!

We're all kooks here! Kook Camps are awesome camps where we partner with local organizations to teach youth to make their own board, surf, have a tons of fun doing rad activities, and talk story (get real) together.

Kook Camp's teach youth one part of the surfboard building process each day, combined with one spiritual life lesson. For example: on day one youth learn to design and plan out their own board. They also learn that they they are designed by God and he has a plan for them!

We offer relationship-based mentorship where our mentors meet up with groms (youth) to surf, hang out, talk story, and usually have a pretty good time! Mentors walk alongside youth becoming Ohana-family to each other.

Life Shapers is our flagship program offering year round multi-year discipleship for students eager to grow in Christ and learn the ropes of surfboard building. Students undergo our training and get plugged into internship and job opportunities with local shapers

Our outreach encompasses a broad range of activity from working with schools and community organizations, to intentionally reaching out to youth in everyday life. It is designed to fill the gaps of the rest of our programs, and can include volunteering with other organizations, or holding events like Surf Days, or fundraisers, Day-camps and more!

Some of our outreach also involves working with foreign locals in their communities. We partner with locals in countries we are not based in order to offer support, programs, and more. We offer long term relationships with regular short term operations. Our intent in this is typically to support locals who want to start their own TPB location in their community. While we typically avoid short-term outreach (or mission trips), we will work with locals who are seeking such partnerships.

Want to join in making this all happen?