Dear Brothers & Sisters, Fellow laborers in the Lord's work,
Daytona Beach Bike Week 2010 was awesome. There were people everywhere. God enabled me to hand out 400 gospel coins on Tuesday & Wednesday while "hanging out" at the flea market and swap meet right off of I-95 in Daytona. While buying a couple of shirts a biker asked me, "What are you? I've never seen a biker with a tie". Trying to think of something witty, I blurted out "I'm a Christian biker". His response was that he is also, and we then had a good conversation about the Lord. I told him about our ministry to bikers and gave him our prayer card. Prayerfully he will contact us and be a support to us and this ministry, God willing. (He did say he owned an ice cream business in Pittsburgh, PA.) On the way to Daytona the truck got a flat tire which was completely ruined.
On Friday, Elizabeth and I brought our foster son, Salento, to Daytona. There we met up with Kyle Joe & Lisa Hicks, missionaries to the streets of Detroit. We handed out pockets full of tracts walking through the crowds on Main Street. (We had to use the tracts that the Hicks brought, due to a delay in ours being printed and shipped.) Following our tract distribution we began the open-air street preaching. My voice wasn't doing so well because I lost it the week before at the Blowout (revival meetings) in Pensacola, FL. Bro. Hicks preached while I handed out tracts. Then I preached for a very short time until everyone was out of tracts. On Saturday we passed out a few gospel coins at the Flea Market while having new tires installed on the front of the truck (due to our previous ruined flat). Next we met up with the Hicks for lunch; we had some great fellowshippin' for a few hours, then parted ways. Elizabeth, Salento, and I then headed back to Main Street to continue ministering. We began passing out Gospel coins and after we were out of those we tried Spurgeon tracts. The tracts were not very well received, so we B-lined it to the preaching spot. My voice was doing better that night so I began preaching for a while, when a fellow, who called himself "Blonde Ron", passed by. He went stumbling by and sat down about 5 to 7 feet from where I was preaching. My throat was getting a little hoarse, anyway, so I took a break and sat down by Blonde Ron. He appeared to be drunk and high on some substance; I gave him a Spurgeon tract to put in his pocket, gave him a hug, and prayed with (for) him. Prayerfully Blonde Ron will read that Gospel tract when he is sober and be saved from Hell. After a few moments of ministering to him, I got a "2nd wind" for some open-air preaching and went for another good 30 minutes or more. Not long after that we headed to the house. During the time God allowed us to minister for Him we handed out 500 plus gospel coins, some Spurgeon tracts, and hundreds of the tracts that the Hicks brought.
Thank you to Mark Robinson for the Gospel Coins. (www.gospelcoin.com)
Thank you to Kyle Joe & Lisa Hicks for dinner and encouragement in the ministry.
Thank you to Calvary Baptist Church for letting us park for FREE.
Thank You to Victory Baptist Church for ordering the Biker Rally Schedule tracts. They will be useful in the upcoming Rally.
Thank you to Cornerstone Independent Baptist Church for the Financial Support for this Rally.
Thank you all for the many prayers that were sent Godward on our behalf.
April 23rd through 25th is Leesburg Bikefest. Please pray for us. We’ll head up there on Friday evening and I’ll be taking Saturday off from work to go evangelize the Heathen. If anyone would like to support us during this rally please contact Cornerstone Independent Baptist Church (www.cibaptist.org). We have about 500 Motorcycle Rally Tracts and Bro. Robinson offered to donate 500 more Gospel coins towards our ministry to hand out to bikers.
In Christ,
Rick & Elizabeth Funderburk
