Purpose and Mission Statement: Bikers of Faith Last Ride Ministry is a Christ centered motorcycle ministry that provides services for the hauling of loved ones' caskets to its' final resting place and I can also do the funeral service if ask. It has always been on my heart to offer this service because most of the bikers I know don't have any money to spend on such things, so I want to provide it for them with as little cost as possible. All I ask is my gas & food expenses and if it is necessary to make a longer trip and spend the night, I will only ask for the motel cost (If I'm offered a guest bedroom for the night, that's cool too). If a love offering is given to the ministry, I will not turn it away, because there are those out there who can't afford anything to have me come and haul their loved one. I will not say no to anyone if they have no money. That's what ministry and love offerings are for. Even then, if it is at all possible, I still will come! The only thing that will prevent my coming is my bike being broken down or bad weather.. God will provide.......God bless, preacher don, you can email me at; precherdon@!gmail.com We believe in Jesus Christ, His only begotten Son. We believe in the Holy Spirit. We believe that Jesus was born of the virgin Mary after being conceived by the Holy Spirit. We believe Jesus walked upon this earth as a mortal man doing His Fathers work. He was persecuted by his own people and suffered at the hands of the religious leaders and government officials of that day. He was sentenced to death and crucified on a cross for sins he did not commit. He took the sins of the world upon Himself by having been sacrificed on the cross. He was laid in a guarded grave. At the end of the third day, He rose from that grave and walked among His people appearing to many. At the appointed time, He ascended into Heaven and took His rightful place at the right hand of The Father, leaving us with the commission to go into all the highways & byways of the world and spread His gospel. As a MM biker, I believe that Jesus Christ is our Lord and Savior and that we are to serve Him with all our heart, mind and strength. I believe that He will return to claim His Bride and that being a Church, free of any spot or blemish. As MM biker, I am committed to standing on the firm foundation of the Holy Bible, written by men of God having been inspired by His Holy Spirit. I believe that Jesus Christ died for us and every person that has ever been born and who is yet to be born, so that we could have eternal life. I believe that His shed blood and broken body was an atonement made for us that enabled us to be forgiven of our sins. I believe that our primary mission as born-again bikers is to spread the Gospel of Jesus Christ and The Kingdom of God. I strive to walk in the Grace and Mercy of God the Father and to apply the power of The Holy Spirit to our walk. PRIORITIES ARE: 1. To maintain an active personal relationship with God through worship and prayer. 2. To care for all bikers and their families, We are to be honest and respectful. 3. To equip the brotherhood through fellowship, biblical teaching and training. 4. To encourage Christ centered relationships and fellowship on an individual basis as well as with other clubs. 5. To Evangelize the biker community and the world around us through ministry outreach. We are to extend Gods mercy and love to those who are hurting and are experiencing the consequences of living without Christ. We do not and will not recruit members by personally asking someone if they want to be become a member. If anyone is to become a part of this ministry, we believe that they will come through God personal calling of them to do so, and will show their true heart for this kind of ministry. We fully welcome those who just desire fellowship in a Christian biker environment. Those desiring membership should do so by letting us know of their desire. It is our hope that lives will be touched and changed in pursuit of our mission to expand God kingdom. Where we come from: MM bikers all are made up of people who are part of the motorcycle community. Some of our members lived the biker lifestyle, complete with its drugs, alcohol, sex, and violence, who now are clean in Christ. We are a family oriented ministry. We have members who were not involved in the hardcore biker lifestyle, but who share a love for motorcycles and have a desire to reach the lost with the gospel of Jesus Christ. We exist for the purpose of spreading the Gospel of Jesus Christ within the community. We seek to evangelize wherever the gospel message needs to be heard and people need to know Jesus Christ as our Lord and Savior. "The Patch Holder" If any desire to be a Patch Holder, they desire an honorable responsibility. For a Patch holder must be a man/woman whose life cannot be spoken against. He/She must be faithful to his/her spouse. He/She must exhibit self-control, live wisely, and have a good reputation. As well as enjoy having guests in his/her home. Patch Holders will not be drinkers or be violent. He/She must manage his/her family well. A Patch Holder should think as a Christian, because if he/she is not mature, they might become proud and the devil will use that pride to make him/her fall. Also, people outside the church must speak well of him/her so that he/she will not fall into the Devil's trap and be disgraced. Patch holders must be people who are respected and have integrity. They must not speak evil of others. They must exercise self-control and be faithful in everything they do. Those who do well as Patch Holders will be rewarded with respect from others and will have increased confidence in their faith in Jesus Christ. This ministry is especially successful among the "biker community" reaching not only social biker clubs but also "hard core" biker clubs including gangs. Biker ministers should have transcended "colors and patches" without fear or intimidation, being accepted by them as a fellow biker and truly ministers of the Gospel of Jesus Christ! We have been able to pray with many and share life experiences where Jesus has been there for us as well. These clubs continue to express their appreciation for them bringing the presence of God into their campsites and club houses. No matter how hard the person is, or what life style they are living, they know, down deep inside, they need Jesus (God). That is what a born-again MM biker is all about, taking the Presence of God into everyday, ordinary, often hurting, lost and confused peoples lives, letting Jesus make a difference. This Ministry can be the very thing you, your family, club or Church may need to experience a new "fire" for the Lord, help in time of trouble, or redirection in life. Our "Ministry Patch"says it all. must be Born Again Statement of Doctrine 1. The divine inspiration and infallibility of Holy Scripture as originally given and its sole authority in all matters of faith and conduct. (2 Timothy 3:15-17) 2. The unity of the Father the Son and the Holy Spirit eternally in the Godhead (John 17:3,21; Matthew 3:15-17, 28:19; 2 Corinthians 13:14). 3. The Sovereignty of God in Redemption, Creation, Revelation and Final Judgment. (Colossians 1:12-20). 4. The full deity of our Lord Jesus Christ, His Virgin Birth and His real and sinless humanity. (Matthew 16:16, Luke 1:26-35, Hebrews 7:26) 5. The universal sinfulness and guilt of human nature since the Fall, rendering man subject to God's wrath and condemnation. (Isaiah 53:6; John 3:36) 6. Redemption from the guilt, penalty and power of sin and from the dominion of Satan only through the sacrificial death (as our representative and substitute) of Jesus Christ, the Incarnate Son of God. (2 Corinthians 5:15-2l; Hebrew 2:14) 7. The bodily resurrection of Jesus Christ from the dead. (1 Corinthians 15:3-8) 8. The necessity of the regenerating work of the Holy Spirit to make the death of Christ effective to the individual sinner, granting him repentance towards God and faith in Jesus Christ. (John 3:3-8, 16:7-11) 9. The justification of the sinner freely by grace through faith alone in the Lord Jesus Christ. (Romans 3:24-26) 10. The indwelling, and work of the Holy Spirit in the Believer. (Ephesians 1:13; Romans 8:9) 11. The expectation of the personal return of the Lord Jesus Christ (Acts 1:6-13) 12. The eternal blessedness in Heaven of the redeemed and the eternal punishment in Hell of the unbelieving. (Matthew 25:46) 13. The one Holy Universal Church which is the Body of Christ and to which all true believers belong. (Ephesians 4:4-6) 14. Believers baptism, ordained by our Lord, practiced by the Apostles and taught in the New Testament. (Matthew 28:19; Romans 6:3-4) 15. Each 'Local Body' (Matthew 18:20) is called to be a community of regenerated (Born-Again) believers, living in fellowship with all other believers within the (Church) One Body of Christ; and will be obedient and subject to His Will, as written in the Scriptures. (Philippians 1:1, Acts 20:28) Note: I have added this poem I came across as something that might be included on the site! THE OUTLAW by Larry Norman Some say He was an outlaw, that He roamed across the land with a band of unschooled ruffians and a few young fishermen. No one knew just where He came from or exactly what He'd done, but they said it must be something bad that kept Him on the run. Some say He was a poet that He'd stand upon the hill and His voice could calm an angry crowd or make the waves stand still. That He spoke in many parables that few could understand, but the people sat for hours just to listen to this man. Some say He was a sorcerer a man of mystery. He could walk upon the water. He could make a blind man see. That He conjured wine at weddings and did tricks with fish and bread. That He talked of being born again and raised people from the dead. Some say a politician who spoke of being free. He was followed by the masses on the shores of Galilee. He spoke out against corruption and He bowed to no decree and they feared His strength and power so they nailed Him to a tree. Some say He was the Son of God a man above all men. But He came to be a servant and to set us free from sin. And that's who I believe He is cause that's who I believe and I think we should be ready when it's time for us to leave. And now I think we should get ready cause it's almost time to leave and be with Him. Some say He was an Outlaw.

My ministry service to the Lord Jesus has finally changed and I am doing a funeral, casket hauling service for bikers. I have built a plain trailer to begin with but prayerfully God will provide the help I need to do better someday. As far as needs, what I need most is to find other old outlaws or just bikers who want to minister in the outlaw world.. Also, looking for someone to build me a hearse box for my trailer for my free funeral service for bikers. I have built the trailer but I'm just not a carpenter.

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As of August 1st, '09, Bikers of Faith Last Ride Ministry offering service again. I have made a small casket hauling trailer that I am offering as a last ride for bikers, family members and club members. I am an ordained Baptist minister. I serve the biker world as a non-denominational ministry. "This is a ministry, not a business". But it does cost a little to make trips. If a love offering is given to the ministry, I will not turn it away, because there are those out there who can't afford anything to have someone come and haul their loved one. All I'd ask is my gas & food expenses and if it is necessary to make a longer trip and spend the night, I would accept help with that, or the motel cost. I will not say no to anyone if it is at all possible, I will come! God will provide.......God bless, preacher don a precherdon@!gmail.com

Hello & God Bless, I ask your patience in advance because this is going to be long testimony, because I just have too much I need to share. I will keep it as short as I can, but I already know it will be long because I have tried to write this part four times already. I'm known as 'preacher don'. Sometimes I wish I hadn't allowed this road handle to be stuck on me. Pretty hard to live up to it all the time. Being the sinner I am, I sometimes don't live up to it. I pray God will forgive me and carry me through. I have spent most of my life doing the opposite of what people wanted me to do. It started with my folks and other family members. I had a dad at the time who only knew how to use his belt. If there really is something kids being A.D.D., then I was one of the worst. I was one mean little *#@*&*+?*. Yeah, looking back, I deserved most of it but it got a little rough and after having a 2" cowboy belt broken over my butt and the buckle sunk into my back, while bent bare-butted over the bathtub, I split. I was 11 yrs old. I didn't go home again to even visit my dad until I was 45 yrs old. It was only then that I learned that my dad had found the Lord a little after I had left and had been a preacher ever since. At the time it didn't mean anything to me. But when we finally got together again for a little while, we were able to reconcile and he forgave me for all the hurt I had put him and my mother through over the years. I remember finding out that at least 4 times when I had thought it was my grandmother or uncles that had bailed me out of jail or paid my lawyers, it was my dad. Wow! He did love me! Served my time and a little more in the Nam era with no good coming from it. I came home with a very bad attitude & after being incarcerated a couple of times & a couple of divorces, I lost the love and most contact with my kids over twenty five years ago. I let their mothers get far enough across the country from me, that the kids gradually decided they wanted nothing to do with me. The last time I saw my 38 year old son was 10 years ago. His name is Kelly and he gave me a daughter-in-law Melissa and two beautiful grand children, my grandson Cody and my granddaughter Cooper. Kelly and I have reconciled and get along well together now even though we never see each other. My youngest son, Michael, removed himself from my life almost 15 years ago because he didn't feel I loved him because I quit sending him money which I found out that he wasn't using it for what he said. I couldn't afford to support him anymore after he got into his twenty's. He couldn't understand why I couldn't give him the world or leave my wife and step-children and move from Texas to Florida for him. Since we haven't spoken in over 15 years, he has no idea of the change in my life and I can only pray that the Lord Jesus will touch his heart with compassion and give me a chance to know him again, even though I still can't give him the life his mother was able to (she re-married very well). He's a good kid but he has a hard heart just like I used to have. One thing he remembers is when I had flown him in from Florida to spend the summer and the day he got off the plane, he was picked up by my wife and to see me he had to be brought to Fort Worth Co. Jail. He had to visit with me through a glass window. I had been raided at my place for running a chop shop and drug manufacturing. You could say that would cause him to have hard feelings. My oldest daughter lives somewhere in Okla., with two of my grand kids. I didn't even know about her until her teens. She just absolutely refuses to see us. Can blame her I was a pretty worthless person as to my feelings or caring about others most of my life. I finally went back to school and went to work as a metallurgist engineer for a Bartlesville oil company. But I got so greedy for extra money and the drinking and meth, that I ended up throwing away 12 years working for them. After being laid-off from the job that I was working for as a welding consultant I got so involved with owning clubs and messing with drugs, that I just became what I was doing. I had myself quite a business with a chop-shop for years in the DFW area. But I even got caught for that too. Upon my release, I got myself a job managing a lead-lined tank manufacturing company for a few years and when the government shut it down for environmental issues. I was just empty and tired of the drinking and drugs and everything else and at that moment I determined to stop drinking and sucking powder up my nose. It's been almost 12 years now since I truly stopped drinking and using without lapsing. I battle with it always, God has kept me strong once I turned it over to Him. My path back to the Lord began 20 years ago when I finally decided in 1989 for some reason to just come home to the Tyler area and try to straighten up. I was towing my 5th wheel trailer and coming east on Hwy31, when all of a sudden I began crying and I started praying. I hadn't prayed at all since I was a little boy. I prayed for God to help me stay free from my old life because Tyler was where I had most been involved in it all, and I also prayed deeply for a wife that would help me through and believe in me. In just a few weeks I met wife whom God answered my prayer with. Within a few weeks, I took her to meet my folks. Within six months we were married, by my father (Imagine that!). After 18 years,she is still with me, Thank you Jesus! When I was 55 yrs. old, my brother and I were coming home from a bike trip to a biker rally in Nacadoches, Texas. We were on the way home and rode up on this little CMA rally at a fairground in Alba, TX, and my brother just had to stop and enter the bike show.. I, myself, was not in least interested in stopping at some kind of church rally. I had fallen off the wagon again that weekend and as I sat there drinking a beer, I noticed that no body else was drinking. I was approached and befriended by a few guys that were putting on the rally. They didn even ask me to put the beer aside, just invited me over to their area to eat lunch. I was hungry!! Well, we spent a couple of hours there and had a pretty good time. I met a biker from Lindale, where I lived. He invited me to stop by and visit a little church mission that he was going to start in few weeks in Lindale Texas. As we were leaving, they invited us again to visit the church and as we rode away I thought, that be the day. Out of sight and out of mind. Oh, I forgot to mention, Mike, my brother did win the best custom in the show. How about that!! Three weeks later I was riding through town and went by the old funeral home and saw a few bikes sitting out front. Kind of worried me so I stopped to check it out and make sure it wasn someone I knew in there. Well, surprise, it was the guys from the rally and they had begun a mission through the 1st. Baptist Church of Lindale, TX, that owned the old funeral home building. They had begun a little mission called, Church In The Wind. Well, I went in and stayed for the service and left with a lot of confusion in my heart. My wife really had no idea where I was at. She thought I gone out for the evening riding with my buds. We had been having some problems and she wouldn ride with me anymore. She didn like my friends or me very much. She especially didn like the things I was doing. I was pretty verbally abusive to her when ever she would bring it up. I am thankful now to the Lord I never was physically abusive, because I couldn't have lived with myself over that. When I told her about the biker church she didn really believe me. She thought the only way bikers could have a church is if it would have to be a cult of some kind. Well, I kept going back every Friday night for a few weeks. We had church on Friday nights to try to keep us out of the bars on the weekends. There were only eight of us when we first got started. In about two months we had grown to a couple of dozen. I still couldn get my wife to go with me. Oh, I forgot to mention, my wife was raised in the 1st. Baptist Church of Tyler and was one of those people. She just couldn see what our mission could be about. Well, after a few weeks I got discouraged and stopped going. I got off track again and just couldn let go of world. Three weeks after I stopped attending, I was run over by my own tractor and got busted up from the tip of my toes to the base of my neck. I was in a cast from my chest down. I had to stay home for quite a while. After missing a couple of weeks showing up at church, I guess they got to wondering about my absence. One Saturday night as my wife was cooking in the kitchen a biker rode up to the house and come to the back door. He looked a lot like me, beard, long hair, leathers, and just a little bit rough. My wife hollered and said, one of your friends is here. She really didn like the idea of him coming into our house. I was laying on the couch in my cast and I could see him through the screen and I told her that was the biker church pastor, Robert Kimbrough. She let him in and was really looking him over. She went back to kitchen and ignored us, trying to not even be sociable to him. Another knock came on the door and when she opened it, there was another guy at the door and he had on a pair of slacks, sport shirt, tie, shoes and a regular haircut! It was Ken Dobbs, the missions pastor from the 1st. Baptist Church. My wife really sat up then! She couldn close her mouth. After listening from the kitchen for a couple of minutes, she came into the living room and sat down and listened as we visited. They had heard of my accident and had actually come to my house to minister to me! I had never had anyone show that kind of love for me before. Before they left, they laid hands on me prayed over me. My wife was kind of confused in her feelings, even as I was. She was really thinking things over because she was seeing a couple of ministers doing what she had been taught all her life. The next Friday night, I asked her to drive me to church and she said she would. When she let me out at the curb, I told her to pick me up around 9:30pm. (We always had a fellowship supper after church). Well, to my surprise she pulled over into the parking area and got out and came in with me. That night after the service and during altar call, I finally, after 55 years, made it down the isle to the alter and went to my knees for the Lord, breaking my cast at the knee, and accepted him into my heart. From that point on we have never looked back. My wife goes with me a lot and she loves ministering and helping out in any way, even if it is cleaning the restrooms. She has truly learned that we are all the same people in the eyes and heart of God. Almost immediately, it was like the pastor (through God) took me under his wing and mentored me. I was 55 yrs. old at the time when I was saved. A couple of years later the pastor's health got very bad and he and the 1st. Baptist church ask me to come forth and be ordained at the the Baptist church as the pastor for Church In The Wind. I was just like Jonah, I struggled with the Lord for a long time but was finally shown that God sometimes really does take the bad and make something good out of it. I pastured the church up until about two years ago. When the mission had grown so much they decided they were big enough to buy an actual church. I didn't feel it was the right move for me, so at that time I presented another fellow to be the pastor, that I felt God had sent to replace me. I know that I was called to be out on the highways and byways doing mission work. The church had grown into a regular church and I had been led to start another mission. But I also know that I am to be involved in outside ministry, in the rallies, clubs, and streets. I still visit Church In The Wind when I am in the area. Mostly I run the highways and byways with any ministry. I served 5 yrs. as the President of the East Tx. branch of Born Again Motorcycle Ministry, but as time went on God again moved me to step down from the office. God decided move me into another more personal area of ministry. I will follow His will and do whatever he wants. I have put together a trike so I can keep riding. My diabetes and left leg are pretty troubling sometimes. I had the foot torn off in an accident on my old trike good Friday of 2008. They put it back together with a couple of titanium rods and a lot of bolts. I can always predict the rain and cold now! This Revision is as of Nov. 2008; I have stepped away from Born Again MM and am doing a Last Ride Ministry service for God & my old Bikers of Faith Ministry Last Ride which He has led to do. I have built a trailer to haul caskets for a biker final ride home. I am going to do biker funerals and casket hauling "for costs only" as I am needed. A lot of us old ones are slowly passing on and I just want to reach as many as I can and try to be sure they get the respect of getting final ride home to their final resting place. If they knew the Lord, we know that they are already present with our Lord Jesus in heaven and in their spirit & Jesus they can ride along. I'm Sorry, I have rambled on so much, but my heart is so full and I wish I could tell you all the things the Lord Jesus has done to change my life. I've been shot, stabbed, beaten, and run over and only through His grace am I still here among the living and not in hell. Let just say that if I hadn finally chosen to listen to Him, (He has been trying to slap me hard enough to get my attention all my life, but I just wasn listening, Satan had my ear), I would either still be locked up or dead. I better reword that. I mean alive eternally, but not in heaven but eternally in hell. So through God calling a sinner like me to Church In The wind and the 1st. Baptist for ordination, I must do as He wants. I have to admit though that I am not a pure hearted Baptist. I am still a sinner but in my service to Jesus I am what most would call a Bapti-costical minister.. God no longer has to discipline me to do His will, but He does battle for me against Satan, who is constantly trying to destroy any ministry I struggle to serve Him. God is my fortress. Only through Him am I able to minister and love everyone. If anyone out there who is interested in a biker ministry that is a little different than most, I'd be glad to discuss it with you. I will connect you with a ministry that accepts old school bikers or just plain street folks, no matter who they are, or were. Born Again MM and a lot of other MMs' would be glad to have you. Old school bikers who have found the Lord are not your typical bible thumping ministers. We are pretty deeply involved with ministering in the 1% outlaw world. It hard to find guys that will go into the old school world and not be offended and judgmental by what they see around them. Also they have to withstand some hits from Satan, because he doesn't want us in His playground. I have found that if I walk the walk I try to preach about, even the hardest hearts will respect my convictions even as they don't want to be part of it. But God opens hearts, We must be vigilant and listen for any opportunities that He brings before us. We do not judge, we just show by example. Jesus preached to 5000 at one time and you never convince me that there weren't all kinds of sinners, rabble rousers, hecklers, or drunks just like me (a chief sinner), among the crowd He was preaching to. But He did not judge them, He just showed them love. There is no one that Jesus or God does not love.. Not one! He may hurt over watching what we do but if we will just accept Him and repent, (not just say we sorry, but turn away from our sins) He is waiting for us. It is through Him only that we have the power to stand against Satan, and only through Him that we can enter His heavenly kingdom. But, we have to chose, He will not force us... God Bless and hope to hear from you soon. If not, I will meet you in His presence when we are together with Him in heaven. your servant in Christ, preacher don

Being a servant for my Lord, Jesus Christ, and ministering on my trike.. I love being able to visit churches throughout the area just be available for somebody's old mother, father, grandma just waiting for someone to come along that might be able to connect with their wayward child. Sometimes I can relate with them where a regular pastor might not..

My hobbies used to be team roping and riding my bike. Now it is looking for ways to serve my Lord Jesus Christ everyday..He always finds something for me to do, even if I might not really want to do it.. I have found that just going ahead and being obedient and doing what He wants, I always end up blessed too! I love fixing up old bikes and trikes and giving them away anonymously to down and out bikers who can't afford to get another ride.

The Bible and any books provided to me for study and learning. I always pray that God will give me the discernment of truth and understanding as I read. If I do not feel that something is of God, I do not continue studying it, because of the confusion that Satan can put in your mind by reading something that deviates in any way from the Word. God will always guide us as we study.

The reason I have stepped out and gone this direction with my ministry, is because God put it in my heart to do so. I do not condone drinking among MM ministers, I'm not being judgmental, I just can't compromise my beliefs, so I have to remove myself from the temptation. I'm an old alky and drug user and do not want to present a stumbling block for others. I have built a trailer for hauling the casket behind my bike during funerals.I truly believe this is a needed ministry and would hope that more brothers would step up across the country and do the same. I pray that we will be used by all mcs' and ministry clubs to help the out with their needs in their burial matters. I just think that most bikers would appreciate a last ride home to their Lord..This is God's ministry.