My Next Steps

By Kathy Church

I’ve come to realize my next steps are based on all the steps that came before.  I spent many years taking all the wrong steps, the side steps and always looking for a way to get around what many individuals would consider to be a “conventional” way of living life, all those steps were prior to knowing the saving grace and love of Jesus Christ, my Lord.  As I ponder some of the places I previously traveled, I know why God, through the power of the Holy Spirit, has brought me to a place of being in ministry as a motorcycle chaplain.

I have been in a place of active motorcycle ministry for approximately 17 years. This experience has been a combination of riding with my husband when he was a member of a Christian MC and also as a member of Broken Chains Biker Church. After officially studying, I realized I’ve been a chaplain all along to some degree, however the Lord wanted to do some tweaking, like having a good understanding of the differences between privileged and confidential, holding to my conscience and things along those lines. While walking as a Christian in ministry, I always knew I was under the authority of my pastors but I never fully grasped the importance of having other chaplains to surround me, both to hold each other accountable and to encourage one another in our calling.   

“A new commandment I give to you, that you love one another: just as I have loved you, you also are to love one another.” John 13:34 (ESV)

Also, the Bible talks in 1 Corinthians 13 what love looks like; in particular verse 13, “So now faith, hope, and love abide, these three; but the greatest of these is love.”  (ESV)

The president of the Christian MC my husband rode with years ago, used to say something that stuck with me, and then I read it again in the “The Work Of The Chaplain” book,  “Preach the Gospel at all times, and if necessary use words“ – Saint Francis of Asisi’

My next step is whether I am in the church building, at an event, with or without my cut, or the grocery store, to be genuine, to listen, and by listening with compassion many times in and of itself,  brings comfort.  To pray for the person, even if it means I am silently praying in my heart to God. My next step, is to follow where the Holy Spirit leads me.  “And I heard the voice of the Lord saying, “Whom shall I send, and who will go for us?” Then I said, “Here I am! Send me” Isaiah 6:8 (ESV)

Blessings,

Kathy Church aka “Mrs Block”