MISSIONmoto

For a time, a few of the MISSIONmoto crew attended Life Church in West Seattle…and a few more crew members still  attend.

Life Church invited Jim & Kim Johnson from Beartooth Mountain Christian Ranch in Montana for a church visit and held a special offering to support the missionary efforts.  Check out what God’s doing through these people in Montana at: www.bmcrministries.org

If you would like to support them, please contact them at:

Jim & Kim Johnson with Beartooth Mountain Christian Ranch in Montana
360-794-9075
jimkimkids@juno.com
www.bmcrministries.org
Mail support to:
BMCR
130 Trinity Trail
Fishtail, MT 59028
406-328-6825
designate support “Johnsons”

At a local motorcycle shop called Twinline, Michael from MISSIONmoto met a cool dude named Levi…from the tribe that is   Turns out that Levi is part of the brethren and his older brother is starting a church down in Portland.  He ended up donating two non-running bikes.  Below is one of them.

cb650

This bike was known as the “Mad Rat.”  When listed on Craig’s List for sale, we did a The Good, The Bad, and The Ugly theme.  What was said about “The Good” and The Bad” was forgoten, but when you get around to “The Ugly” the description was: “black paint everywhere!”

In the end we sold this bike, some parts, and one of the deacons from Life Church, Dan Russel, chipped in some cash and we sent the folks at Beartooth Mountain Christian Ranch over $350.00.

Amen

CB650

CB650

We did not know about YWAM before we met Alynena Krause at New Hope Seattle church.  She is now a volunteer at YWAM and has accomplished her Discipleship Training School through YWAM.  She is now participating with others in the missions field.  Please visit her story at: http://wordsispeakthoughtsithink.blogspot.com/.  Also you can find more information on YWAM at www.ywam.

There’s some unique history behind this motorcycle that is known as Lazarus 1.  This was the very first motorcycle in the history of our motorcycle ministry that started around 4 years ago.  Here’s a snippet.

There’s some history with MISSIONmoto and New  Hope.  Michael Daily (founding steward of MISSIONmoto) attended New Hope as was one of a handful of families who helped plant the New Hope in Shoreline with Pastor Jon Burgess during the initial 4 years of the church in Shoreline.  Stephanie Daily was baptized many years ago by Pastor Wayne Cordeiro (founder of New Hope International) in the Pacific Ocean at Ala Moana park, Magic Island Beach.  She attended New Hope for 6 years at Ferrington in Honolulu, HI.  During the four years Michael attended New Hope in Shoreline, God placed it on his heart to start a motorcycle ministry- not a riding club, but something entrepreneurial that would edify the church.  Jeff Fildey, August Laggio, Bill Fox, and Michael Daily went for a ride and a lunch on Alki and Michael explained the vision.  Later Michael put together a business plan, presented it to Pastor Jon.  Jon gave it his blessing and we started.  If Pastor Jon had not said “yes,” none of this would have happened.  Anyone involved with MISSIONmoto should be eternally grateful towards Pastor Jon.  If you are a leader in ministry reading this, how may times have you said “yes;” “yes, use me; yes, I’ll do it for Christ?”  Never hinder the work of the Holy Spirit.  The ministry started out as nhs MOTO (which still exists today).  We started out with an overwhelming amount of faith that the Holy Spirit would meet us where we were at and very little experience and resources.   But the important thing is that we started.  Pastor Jon sent me this email shortly after we broke ground with a  motorcycle ministry:

From: Jonathan Burgess [mailto:jon@newhopeseattle.org]
Sent: Thursday, May 03, 2007 10:33 AM
To: Michael Daily
Subject: Motorcycle Ministry

Michael,

I was reading through today’s chapters in the Life Journal and I came across the passage in Matthew 20.  Jesus is telling the parable of the owner of a vineyard who hires various shifts throughout the day.  In The Message at around verse 6 it says:  “At five o’clock he went back and found still others standing around.  He said, ‘Why are you standing around all day doing nothing?’  “They said, ‘Because no one hired us.’  “He told them to go to work in his vineyard.”

I believe the vision God has given you will facilitate this very thing.  There are many people just standing around waiting to be invited and included in something important, people waiting for a chance, just one chance.  They feel passed up by the church, but not this church.  This ministry will give many a new beginning.  Thank you for letting God move you and direct you to reach out to those who are “just standing around”.

In His Adventure,

Jon Burgess

Lead Pastor

New Hope Seattle Christian Fellowship

19350 Firlands Way North

Shoreline, Washington 98133

(206) 546-3550

http://www.newhopeseattle.org

…There is still work to be done

Lazarus 1 has been sold twice and is still in the MISSIONmoto garage   Seth Wray now owns it and we have made it into a cafe racer project.

1976 Kawasaki KZ400

Here’s my neighbor and “welder extraordinaire” George welding the frame stop.  George volunteers his expertise and equipment to the ministry.

Here’s what it looked like when we first got it

1976 Kawasaki KZ400

Here’s a shot Joel, Bill, and I working out of the back of Michael’s truck before the MISSIONmoto garage was built.  Bill was such a trooper because he was very sick that day.

1976 Kawasaki KZ400

Here is a very bad idea of how Bill and Michael got the front shocks into the triple tree.  Picture below left.

1976 Kawasaki KZ400

Here’s a shot of the first makeover of Lazarus 1.  Chas Tornetta graciously paints the tanks and side covers for our ministry and he did a cool flat black.

1976 Kawasaki KZ400

Seth and the Crew have since stripped the bike down to the frame, repainted the frame blue,  have done the top end of the motor, and have added some very neat after-market cafe racer parts,  The bike looks nothing like the above pictures. There’s some shots of it on our Facebook page.

Here’s Jaz and Jake putting their combined efforts into the project

1976 Kawasaki KZ400

A big thank you goes out out to Seth Wray who has given so much to this ministry already.  His time, abilities, and this is the 1st of two bikes he has donated.  We love you Seth!

When he donated this bike, we had no new  missionaries on “The List” waiting for profits from a bike.   So it was an opportunity to go find a missionary candidate who we could steward profits from Seth’s donated bike.  Seth asked Michael to join his church service at Prince of Peace Lutheran Church.  The Pastor just so happened to be having a quick breakfast and social time prior to the service so Michael gave a quick talk about MISSIONmoto.  It’s always nice to do church visits like this.

After the service, Seth’s Pastor introduced us to Tania and Graham Goodrich who make a yearly missions trip to Uganda with the Reaching Out with Hope organization.  They have a really neat vision:

REACHING OUT WITH HOPE

“Our desire is to take hope to the hopeless

through the encouragement that comes from

knowing the word of God,

take God’s love to the hurting world,

place the word of God in the hands and hearts of people,

calling them into the eternal love of Jesus Christ

in order for them to become what God wants us to be.

HELP US REACH THEM , LOVE THEM, AND EDUCATE THEM

REACHING OUT WITH HOPE

P.O. BOX 13364

DES MOINES, WA 98198

ROWH@PRAYERPOWERCENTER.ORG

Here’s the bike when it was donated. That’s big Jake on his scooter next to the bike.  Jake goes on all donation pick ups!

We went through the carbs and installed some inline fuel filters and replaced the plugs and gave her a quick bath.  Here’s a shot before she as sold.

1980s 650 Nighthawk

To help sell the bike, we had some extra parts.  Donated parts are a big source of our project funding and they help pay or other expenses.  MISSIONmoto always appreciates donated parts!

1980s 650 Nighthawk

1980s 650 Nighthawk

When the Goodrich’s returned from their mission this year, they brought back a picture of plaque placed on a wall for a school they helped build in Uganda.  MISSIONmoto i on that plaque as we were able to contribute $500.00 to missions efforts and the buying of bricks for this school.  Someday another missionary who knows of us is going to walk past this plaque, see MISSIONmoto on it and  chuckle.  It’s amazing how God can take a small group of devoted people in West Seattle who love to wrench on bikes for the great commission, and have us impact lives of people around the world.

Uganda School

Uganda School

Alas, we get to write about a Foursquare missions project.  We love Foursquare churches!  Pastor Jon Burgess of New Hope Seattle hooked us up with the Greer family who are missionaries in Papua New Guinea .  For more about their ongoing efforts, please see visit their site: http://greerfamilypng.wordpress.com/.

There’s some history with MISSIONmot0 and New  Hope.  See the forthcoming post under the Lazarus 1 bike.

The 1978 Honda was donated to New Hope Seattle in Shoreline, under the purview of   nhs MOTO, yet stewarded by the MISSIONmoto crew to get it Sale-able

Here’s a shot of it when it first arrived in the MISSIONmoto garage .

An interesting chain of events brought us this  bike.  A friend who is the founder of  Knucklebusters MC  bought a parts bike from us and helped give advice about what MISSIONmoto needed for a working garage.  Throughout the conversation, we helped resolve a titling issue  and he was grateful for our help.  In turn, he knew of this bike from a coworker who was looking to let it go.  He arranged for it to get donated to nhs MOTO.   We went way out in cow country and got it from a barn.   He’s a friend of MISSIONmoto to this day and we keep in touch.

Here’s us getting into the carb work.

Here’s the bike after we were done.

The story does not end there.   God had a lesson in-store plus a few blessings depending on our obedience.   Before the bike ran, we thought about selling it as is. We posted a CL add for $300.00 not knowing how much these bikes go for.    I got about 15 responses within a half hour.  Oops, wrong price.  I called my friend who said that is was worth more but should probably honor my list price.  The conundrum: honor a price to save face as a man, or go for the maximum amount for God’s people.  We chose the latter and emailed all who responded saying we were going to pull the add and re-list it after getting the bike running.  We got it running, re-listed it for a $1,000.00 and prayed hard for it to sell in time for our MISSIONmoto presentation at Life Church.   A Japanese guy called me, offered us $1,200.00 .  When he showed up, he really liked what we were doing and offered to by all Japanese vintage bikes we had, and those in the future.  He buys old bikes in the US and exports them to Japan.   I’m glad I obeyed God and the presentation at Life Church could not have been better after we added this testimony.  It’s amazing how God will far exceed your expectations.

Hands for Peacemaking installs high-efficiency vented stoves in Guatemalan villages.  This combats  high mortality rates for kids in Mayan villages within Guatemalan.  The stoves replace open fires which burn all day in their make-shift homes.  Open fires in doors cause grave respiratory illness & death.  Also, children get an opportunity to go to school instead of foraging for firewood all day.  The goal is to share the gospel while installing these stoves.   Hands for Peacemaking. Check’em out & support’em.

There’s a group from several churches in the Greater Seattle aria planning a missions trip with Hands for Peacemaking. Several guys from the MISSIONmoto Crew will be going on this trip. They arrive in Guatemalla on July 1st. Learn more about the trip by reading this Facebook note.  Learn more at the team website and make a donation right now.

1977 SUZUKI GS550B

The story behind this donated bike is pretty good.  It came from a guy who is our  number one source for vintage parts and a self proclaimed atheist!   He has chided the mission-minded motivation for the work we do.  We just respond by saying:…”just wait, it’ll just make your testimony sweeter some day” 

It is interesting that 3/4ths of all bike donations come from non-Christians.  Also, this donation came from his poverty which really touched my heart.  On pickup day, he was waiting for firewood to heat his home, wondering if he could make his mortgage payment , and concerned about  mounting medical bills.  He could not afford to give us this donation, but here he was doing it anyway.  We amazed him by getting it running and sold within a couple months and over $400.00 went towards Hands for Peacemaking .  It’s pretty cool  when your donor becomes an opportunity to share Christ as well as the missions organization that  profits from bike it’s dedicated to.

To the right is a picture right before we sold it.  Below is it’s appearance in the garage It came to us with a ridiculously high sissy bar and an air-ride suspension as well as a humangaloid seat.

We refurbished           the        gauges.  They turned out like it came from the factory!

A big thanks to Andrew at A-1 Mobile Lock & Key who donated his services- as always- re-keying the ignition.

This bike also had a cool ’70s green  color.

We tried to refit the seat and, well…we had good intentions.  Chris in our group was just short of horrified with the upholstery job.

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