As usual I alway get sick of the weather change when I travel long distances. This happened again and yesterday I spent most of the day inside, taking it easy and helping Sebastian with his home work as he need to study and keep himself up to date with school as he is going to be away from school for one month. It is hard to find words how blessed I am to be able to have my son with me on this trip. He is also writing a blog from our adventures and this he has to present to his teacher. I think that is a good deal. He will also soon have his own webpage where he will publish his thoughts together with pictures.
Even if I had the flu we did two trips to WalMart, our favourite supermarket in US and A. Usually I dont by clothes but when I am over here I do. A pair of jeans for 8 $ is a good deal compared to Finland and these are good jeans that also fit around my belly. This is the land of the big size jeans and I guess that has to do with the sizes of their steaks.
In the evening it was church night at the Ambassadors for Jesus Christ home church Sword of The Spirit in Houston, Texas. We had a great time and once again the Lord opened a door for me to tell the people what Jesus have done in my life. It was nice being back there and also nice to meet all the brothers and sisters. Most of them were at the rally but those who came had a great time I guess. It is funny how God can do things. How I became an Ambassador is also another true story about how God can do what ever HE wants. And remember this; if you pray you also have to be prepared that God will answer your prayers. I think it is time for me to share how God connected me with these wonderful brothers and sisters.
It all started without me knowing anything about it. I had created a MySpace profile just to share my testimony on the internet. I did not even know that there were Christian biker clubs and ministries. Also I had never been interested in motorcycles!
January 2nd 2008 I had the great honor to celebrate one year in my church Kvevlax Missionskyrka, outside Vasa. An older lady was there and she heard my testimony. This night she did not say anything but I met her again four days later at the sunday church service. She said she wanted to talk to me. She said that she had a vision that was based on Luke chapter five where Jesus told the fishermen to cast out the nets on deeper water. She said she saw me cast out a net in cyber space and that I should think big, that I should think global. This was the first time someone prophecied over me and I did not know what was going on so I thought that older lady had lost her last brain cells. She said that the net is all over the world and all people I meet are becoming knots in the net. She said that when there are more knots there will also be more fish. - Yeah, yeah... I said!
One day I was searching for Christian people, most rock bands on MySpace. I was not even thinking about what this woman had told me. I saw a very hairy man covered with tattoos standing in a pulpit, preaching the gospel. That was the time when I still was a really baby Christian and I had cut my hair and tried to look sofisticated. I even had bought reading glasses so I would look "wiser". When I saw this biker, I first laughed and said: - oh, no you can definitely not look like that if you are Christian. Thats how I used to look when I was running the devils errands in my past. Not with bikers but within the rock and roll circuit.
I started to look up different Christian motorcycle clubs just for fun as I laughed at thise "Christians". No, way you could look like that. I had it all straight and it had to be like I said.
Anyway, something inside of me wanted to be like that as that was what I would have liked to look like and basically what I looked like in my past. When I got saved I hade shaved, cut my hair short and bought a long sleeve shirt to cover up my tattoos. I just felt that if that hairy man can do that I can do it too. After I while I started to look up these Christian bikers and all of a sudden I had a webpage in front of me with most of the Christian biker clubs and ministries in USA. I saw the Ambassadors For Jesus Christ logo and back patch and I dont know why I wrote them. I dont even remember what we first spoke about when we had e-mail correspondense. I just felt that God wanted me to hook up with these people, even if
I wasn´t interested in motorcycles.
This was when I started to know sister Monica Sanchez. We wrote to each other and basically it was all about Jesus. One day after she had told me something they had done on a big biker rally I felt God calling me to join this ministry even if it was 5000 miles away. We agreed that I would open up their first branch outside the US and that I would become the branch leader. Now I also started to be interested getting a motorcycle, but there were a few problems, the biggest one; my economy and also the fact that I did not have a drivers license for motorcycle. Me and Monica stayed in touch and soon she introduced me to pastor Joe Guebara, the leader of the ministry.
As this connection was from God, everything was taken care of. Before the summer I had both a motorcycle and my license. Since that I have been flying my patch for the Lord over in Finland and today we are 7 members within the ministry. First time I met my brothers and sister was in february this year and we are just getting closer and closer to each other. It is a big, wonderful family and YES you can ride a bike and be a born again Christian, without any kind of problem. Jesus loves bikers too!
Love and respect
Pontus J. Back
