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In between services in Omaha, NE and El Paso, TX, (Yes sometimes I spread them out a little too far) I was able to go to Sturgis and work with a different ministry each day. Part of this is so that as we begin doing our ministry in our own area we will know what has been working for others. There is no reason to remake the wheel if someone already has it working right. One day I worked at the free bike wash, another day I helped out Chaplain Curtis Hubbell with his children's ministry by going through the crowd and passing out invitations to children to come to the city park to see what was going on. I went to see Chaplain Russ Cockrum and his free coffee and water booth at a campground, the same thing at another campground by Tim Greeley from the Northwest District, and to Hill City where Chaplain Scott Bush works with a local church to hand out free water downtown. I was also blessed to work with Russ and Judy at the Healing Fields out near the Buffalo Chip campgrounds. One of the most moving things at the Healing Fields was when I was able to help a gentleman find his son's flag and pray with him afterwards. His son died in Iraq last September.
At the free bike wash I visited with the gentleman who started it about eleven years ago. He told me a story about how at first it was just him and a bucket. He was doing it to do evangelism, but there were Christian bikers getting in line to get there bikes washed. He said he thought, "These guys should be helping me, not me washing their bikes." But he said nothing. He said it took three years before the Lord spoke to him while he was thinking like this. He said the Lord told him, "I told you to wash bikes, I have not told them to do it." He said that in that epiphany his attitude changed. Soon after another guy came and asked if he could help. This year they had 60 volunteers and the bike wash is spreading to every major rally in the US. Hopefully soon to Texas, Oklahoma, New Mexico, and Louisiana. :-) I hate to admit it, but this made me think about my own attitude. I am so eager to get fully supported so I can be about this ministry full time, but there have been churches that do not seem to realize the need is so great or so real. Looking at this story, I have to realize that God told me to go and do this. I just have to do what He says and trust him for the supply. God will choose those who need to support us and I believe he will have many of them give a Faith Promise that is based on faith and not on budget. In the meantime, I will just be thankful that God has called me to this ministry
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In this
issue: NEXT ISSUE - LATEST NEWS - Janet doing
fine A voice
is calling, It does not speak of us making the road wide and easy for the church or the lost to find their way to God. It speaks of us making the way smooth for God to the lost and dying around us. In days of old, there would be those who would go before a king to prepare a way for that king to get to where he was going. They would level hills and fill up valleys so that his getting to them would be easy. Basically, they either removed or made smooth the obstacles between the king and the people he was going to reach. Our job is the same. No one comes to God unless He draws them, but we are to remove the obstacles between him and them. We are to clear the obstacles out of the way for the Lord in the wilderness of this subculture and make smooth in the desert he assigned us, so a highway for our God may reach as many as it can.
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GREAT NEWS! Rick Dubois, the North Texas Dist. Asst. Supt., has agreed to include the HonorBound Motorcycle Ministry Brochure in their Fall Convention Tour. He is also very interested in having an annual rally at Maypearl which would also include ministry training opportunities for bikers and churches interested in Motorcycle Ministry and Riding Fellowships. |
PRAYER REQUEST Janet's quick
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SUCCESS
STORY At the recent West Texas District Men's Ministry Convention, I looked up from the registration table to see one of these men at the convention. He was with an Assembly of God church from Midland, Tx. His pastor told me that he was using him to teach the adult class on Wednesday evening at times. What is the success in this story? It really is very simple. If we will reach out to even those that society has rejected, we can see God gain great victory in their lives. We can also see them to work in ministry themselves and pass along what little we have given them to others. | |||
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Copyright © R. Duane Gryder 2006 | |||
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PS: THANKS TO
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If you
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In
His Service,
R. Duane
Gryder