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Time for the Gospel!
Published 10:21 14/02 2012
Dear friends,
It is time to update this page as the year has already changed and the biker season 2012 is coming up. In this post I will get a bit personal and also emotional and I want you to read my story about how I came into motorcycle ministry. This year will be my fifth year as an Ambassador For Jesus Christ and I know that this year will be totally different than other years. I feel that it really is time for the Gospel to be preached where it can be preached and our vision for The European Ambassadors For Jesus Christ is to not speak agains anything, not condemn or judge, not scare people with heaven and hell but walk in the love that we first received from God.
So many things are taking place in the world right now and just the fact that YOU listen to someone that need to speak is worth gold. We have to use the wisdom GOD gave us to win souls for JESUS and there is nothing we can do in our own strength. We can not force people to get saved, neither can we manipulate people to get healed. It is all something we do with wisdom in faith by the power of the Holy Spirit and if there is no love we wont succeed.
January 7th we had our annual general meeting and Ambassadors from both Finland and Sweden gathered here in Vasa. We elected a new board and did some decisions for this coming year. The new boar members are: Pontus J. Back, Veli-Matti Koivisto, Jacques Mahne, Pasi Marttinen, Anja Haka and Pastor Joe Guebara (USA). We also decided that Berth and Anja Haka will be the contact people for our members and other people in Sweden.
The events we are going to attend are in the calendar and do not hesitate to ask us about anything. IF you see one of us on the road, just wave at us and we'll be there for you!
How I became a biker
It was soon after I had my encounter with Jesus, who healed me and set me free I was called into motorcycle ministry by God! I did not understand this myself as I had never ridden a biker, I did not have a driving license for motorcycles and I was not even interested in motorcycles!
When all this took place I was covered in something that I would call "a religious costume". Since I had given my life to the Lord I wanted to live up to the "Christian standard" and I covered my tattooed arms with long sleeve nice shirts, I cut my hair and my beard, I had a big cross hanging around my neck. I used hair gel to make my hair due look nice and I wore reading glasses so I could live up to what I thought was the "Christian standard".
Meanwhile our oldest child, our son was walking his own direction and I have to admit that I was worried about him making the same choice that I mad at his age when I dedicated my life to alcohol and later drugs. At church they were very concerned about my speech about becoming a biker for Christ and they spoke against my back and told people to tell me to not listen to what I felt was God!
I was investigating the Christian Biker World and also the finnish clubs. Some of them had protocol with prospects and supports for a couple of years before you could become a patch holder and one club was too easy to get into. At the same time I read about Christian motorcycle clubs and ministries on line and I found one page with all the different colors and patches. There was one patch that stood out and ministered to me. It was a yellow patch with a cross and the text "AMBASSADORS FOR JESUS CHRIST MOTORCYCLE MINISTRY". This was the first organization over seas I contacted and immediately we connected. We were in the same Spirit with the same vision about reaching the lost.
It did not take that long before we decided that I was going to start up a branch for the ministry over here in Europe and so happened. I told the brothers and sisters over in Texas that I did not have a bike, neither did I have a drivers license. I told them about my bad credit and that it was impossible for me to get all this worked out. Their answer to me was clear and they asked me: - Where is your faith brother?
I realized that I had received faith as a GIFT but that I had to start using my faith and I had to BELIEVE. Two different things, to have faith and to believe. I prayed and believed and soon GOD took care of these things. The very same day I received my drivers license I took out my Harley Davidson 2004 Night Train on the roads and I wore my leather vest with the Ambassadors For Jesus Christ M/M colors. It felt good and it was something I never had experienced before! It was still cold out but I felt freedom and peace while I was out riding.
This very first season became a big change in my life. Both in my old life and in my new life. Not just the fact that I ripped of the "religious costume" and became myself and let my hair and beard grow out again. When the motorcycle came to our family me and my son found something in common and the same year in may we did our first longer ride together on the motorcycle to Stockholm, Sweden. That was an adventure and it was the first time I ever took my son with me on the road or did something together with my son. I remember me sitting and watching him at night while he was sleeping in his hotel bed where we stayed during this trip and I was crying and thanking GOD for my son. I loved him and I love him so much!
Since then me and my son have driven thousands of kilometers together on that same Harley Davidson and we are not just father and son. We became best friends! We have done so many trips together, not only on the motorcycle but we are a good team. Even if he is in the age of 17 years old now and is not necessary so interested in hanging at the church and he wants to hang out with his friends we do travel together and the most important of all; we have fun together with JESUS! We are Ambassadors For Jesus Christ!
I am so thankful today when I think back. What if I had done what the people told me to do? Then I would not have all the wonderful brothers and sisters within the biker community all over the world. I don't know how my relationship with my son would be? I don't know if I still would look like a clown in my short hair and reading glasses? I don't know if I still would be here? I don't know...
Due to this I have also made trips with my youngest daughter and I am looking forward to get out on the roads with the twin daughters as well. I never thought I would be a biker but God had a plan for me. A way bigger plan than I could imagine. Tonight I was watching my son fix up his bike, waiting for the summer to come. It felt in my heart to see him take care of his first bike and fix it up as this coming summer we will not ride on the same bike, we will ride next to each other not only as father and son but as best friends and Ambassadors For Jesus Christ and the plan is to involve the whole family in this ministry in the future. It all is about listening to God and following His plan for our lives.
I could never ever have imagined that I am where I am today and I am not ashamed to be a Christian! I am not ashamed to be a tattooed and hairy biker! I love JESUS and I love my FAMILY! I love my brothers and I love my sisters! I am so thankful!
Today we are 25 Ambassadors For Jesus Christ in Finland and Sweden and I am proud of all of these guys!
When all this took place I was covered in something that I would call "a religious costume". Since I had given my life to the Lord I wanted to live up to the "Christian standard" and I covered my tattooed arms with long sleeve nice shirts, I cut my hair and my beard, I had a big cross hanging around my neck. I used hair gel to make my hair due look nice and I wore reading glasses so I could live up to what I thought was the "Christian standard".
Meanwhile our oldest child, our son was walking his own direction and I have to admit that I was worried about him making the same choice that I mad at his age when I dedicated my life to alcohol and later drugs. At church they were very concerned about my speech about becoming a biker for Christ and they spoke against my back and told people to tell me to not listen to what I felt was God!
I was investigating the Christian Biker World and also the finnish clubs. Some of them had protocol with prospects and supports for a couple of years before you could become a patch holder and one club was too easy to get into. At the same time I read about Christian motorcycle clubs and ministries on line and I found one page with all the different colors and patches. There was one patch that stood out and ministered to me. It was a yellow patch with a cross and the text "AMBASSADORS FOR JESUS CHRIST MOTORCYCLE MINISTRY". This was the first organization over seas I contacted and immediately we connected. We were in the same Spirit with the same vision about reaching the lost.
It did not take that long before we decided that I was going to start up a branch for the ministry over here in Europe and so happened. I told the brothers and sisters over in Texas that I did not have a bike, neither did I have a drivers license. I told them about my bad credit and that it was impossible for me to get all this worked out. Their answer to me was clear and they asked me: - Where is your faith brother?
I realized that I had received faith as a GIFT but that I had to start using my faith and I had to BELIEVE. Two different things, to have faith and to believe. I prayed and believed and soon GOD took care of these things. The very same day I received my drivers license I took out my Harley Davidson 2004 Night Train on the roads and I wore my leather vest with the Ambassadors For Jesus Christ M/M colors. It felt good and it was something I never had experienced before! It was still cold out but I felt freedom and peace while I was out riding.
This very first season became a big change in my life. Both in my old life and in my new life. Not just the fact that I ripped of the "religious costume" and became myself and let my hair and beard grow out again. When the motorcycle came to our family me and my son found something in common and the same year in may we did our first longer ride together on the motorcycle to Stockholm, Sweden. That was an adventure and it was the first time I ever took my son with me on the road or did something together with my son. I remember me sitting and watching him at night while he was sleeping in his hotel bed where we stayed during this trip and I was crying and thanking GOD for my son. I loved him and I love him so much!
Since then me and my son have driven thousands of kilometers together on that same Harley Davidson and we are not just father and son. We became best friends! We have done so many trips together, not only on the motorcycle but we are a good team. Even if he is in the age of 17 years old now and is not necessary so interested in hanging at the church and he wants to hang out with his friends we do travel together and the most important of all; we have fun together with JESUS! We are Ambassadors For Jesus Christ!
I am so thankful today when I think back. What if I had done what the people told me to do? Then I would not have all the wonderful brothers and sisters within the biker community all over the world. I don't know how my relationship with my son would be? I don't know if I still would look like a clown in my short hair and reading glasses? I don't know if I still would be here? I don't know...
Due to this I have also made trips with my youngest daughter and I am looking forward to get out on the roads with the twin daughters as well. I never thought I would be a biker but God had a plan for me. A way bigger plan than I could imagine. Tonight I was watching my son fix up his bike, waiting for the summer to come. It felt in my heart to see him take care of his first bike and fix it up as this coming summer we will not ride on the same bike, we will ride next to each other not only as father and son but as best friends and Ambassadors For Jesus Christ and the plan is to involve the whole family in this ministry in the future. It all is about listening to God and following His plan for our lives.
I could never ever have imagined that I am where I am today and I am not ashamed to be a Christian! I am not ashamed to be a tattooed and hairy biker! I love JESUS and I love my FAMILY! I love my brothers and I love my sisters! I am so thankful!
Today we are 25 Ambassadors For Jesus Christ in Finland and Sweden and I am proud of all of these guys!
God Bless You All!
Pontus J. Back
Director-Founder
AFJCMM EUROPE
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