He had been talking about it for quite a while and had been attempting to get step one completed, which was finding a location. He had looked at several locations, but the prices of renting out a building as just too high. Dad didn't know what to do.
One day, he was out looking for a good place, when he came upon a small bike shop called Steel City Bikeworks. The owner, an energetic man named Carl, met him. Dad told him what he was trying to do, and immediately Carl's eyes lit up. Carl had become Christian a few years ago and was praying that someone like Dad would come around—someone who wanted to start a biker church. Then, “coincidentally,” Dad came along.
I remember Dad telling me how Carl had eagerly showed him around the place. There was a large area behind the building with a few sheds, perfect for what Dad was doing, and much more land to the side, which Carl was trying grow grass on—another thing that would work for Dad because th grass would be good for kids in case he wanted to do any kids events as well.
The shop itself was great. In the front was a nice room filled with motorcycles on display and several smaller rooms branching out of it. Behind that room was a lobby with a kitchen and TV and several chairs, a generally good place to hang out. After that room came a huge garage where Carl and his employees work on motorcycles, quite essential for a bike shop.
Dad was very pleased and Carl was, too. The location was set, so it was time for the next step.
Over the next few months, we did small, various things. We had a small meeting to announce that we were starting a church there. We helped clean up the place by removing junk from the yard. One day we designated to painting parts of the building, on both the interior and the exterior. All this and more we did, trying to help out however we could. I think this will all help to build a strong biker church, just as Dad feels God wants him to do.
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