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June 6, 2009

Becky Holland The Times-Recorder Sat Jun 06, 2009, 06:28 PM EDT

AMERICUS —

Curtis Jamieson,a resident of Phoenix City, Alabama, and International President of the Heaven’s Saints Motorcycle Ministry, speaks with strength and knowing as he talks of a night, when he was “rolling” with the wrong type of motorcycle club, and he almost died. “We were in a shoot-out, and there was this car, upside down, right here,” Jamieson points chest level as he sits in a conference room, “and I had a sawed off shotgun and this guy comes barreling out after me and shoots, and that bullet stopped right here, at the tire,” his hands are just inches from his chest.

“There is no other reason for me to be here today, other than because of God.”

Jamieson, smiles, “You know, we all have come from a hard life, and I know I put my own family through hell,. My wife, we’ll be celebrating our 30th wedding anniversary this year, spent a lot of weekends getting me out of jail because of where I was and what I was doing.”

But then, Jamieson found the answer, and it was through God.

In Americus for Bikers’s Sunday at Journey ‘s Road Ministries today, Jamieson spoke to the Times-Recorder about the organization and its purpose. The Heaven’s Saints Ministry provides a Christian brotherhood of bikers an opportunity to fellowship with and minister alongside each other. Chapters of the organization, as mentioned in Friday’s issue of the Americus Times-Recorder, can be found all voter the U.S. and in some parts of Canada.Chapters in Georgia include Albany, Monroe and Tifton.

The Tifton, GA chapter, according to Daniel Owens of Ellaville, “encompasses a large area, including Sumter, Schley, Tift, Thomas, and Lowndes counties."

Heaven’s Saints Motorcycle Ministry, a part of the Church of the Heaven’s Saints, as Jamieson said, has a purpose of not being a motorcycle club, but to assist those in need in whatever way “we can and to share the gospel of Jesus Christ.”

“Barry Mayson, a former member of the roughest motorcycle organization around, the Hell’s Angels, started the organization nearly 30 years ago,” said Jamieson. “He had been a President of the South Carolina chapter of the HA, and became saved. I remember in 1996, we held a rock/gospel concert, and Barry came as a speaker, and then later on that summer, I attended a Heaven’s Saints National Rally in Tennessee, and I realized, God was showing me something,” said Jamieson.

He said, “God took me out of the motorcycle world, and I cleaned up my act. I did the man thing, I cut my hair, hid my tattoos, and took out my earring and put on the suit.”

“And here He was putting me right back into the world of motorcycles,” Jamieson laughed, adding, “So many people see motorcycle people as cain raising, trouble making folks, but we’re not all like that. We may look the same, but with us, we’re all Christians, believers and our goal is to promote Jesus.”

Smiling, Jamieson said, “Not that I am saying I am anywhere near the quality of Moses, but you know, He took Moses out of Egypt, He being God, and prepared him for the next step of his ministry, and purpose, which was to be put right back in the middle of Egypt and lead God’s people.”

For six years, before joining Heaven’s Saints Motorcycle Ministry, Jamieson became involved in “a good church and I never thought I would ride again. In fact, I didn’t straddle a motorcycle at all. God was preparing for this next journey.”

Jamieson continued, “Which proves the point that we all, no matter what we look like, act like . . . we all have a purpose in life.”

The Heaven’s Saint Motorcycle Ministry has people “involved in all sorts of ministries . . . prison, nursing home, evangelism, youth . . .We go where we are asked to go. We have a tent ministry, and just preach the good Word. . People who ride motorcycles need to know the Lord just as much as anyone else, and so much of the time, those people are turned off by the traditional church setting, so our goal is to meet them where they live.” Jamieson talked of the verse in Matthew 28: 19-20, “We are told to go and tell all, not to just sit in our own homes, our churches . . . but to go and tell.”

Jamieson and the Heaven’s Saints are doing just that, going and telling, on their motorcycles. Today, the group is meeting in Americus, at the Wal-Mart on Lamar Street, at 9:45, then heading over to Journey’s Road Ministries, where pastor, Travis Moody, and the congregation will be welcoming them with open arms. Moody said, “I am just excited about the opportunity. Everyone is invited.”

Owens said, “It is not just for bikers.”

Remembering, perhaps Mayson, or fallen friends from his past life, and reflecting on lives he has yet to meet, but feels led to find, Curtis Jamieson, assistant pastor of his home church, and special speaker at the Biker Sunday event, quieted for a moment. “We are not a perfect organization, and I would invite anyone to investigate us thoroughly. We are here for one reason and that is to show everyone that God loves them.”

He continued, “It doesn’t matter what you have done, what you have said, how far deep or down you have fallen, God will get you through it. Look at me, He was able to get me out of it. Barry Mayson too. There are so many of us who can attest to that. Doesn’t matter who you are. . . you are never too lost for God.”

Nodding as he rolled out on his bike, Jamieson’s words echoed out, “all you have to do is . . focus on the Lamb.”

For more information about the Heaven’s Saints Motorcycle Ministry or to receive a copy of Barry Mayson’s story, Hell’s Angel to Heaven’s Saint, “Fallen Angel,”, visit the group’s website www.heavenssaints.com . For photos of Biker Sunday, see Tuesday’s print and online editions of the Times-Recorder.

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