My cousins pages! Check them out, all for a great cause! registryriders.org Who We Are We originally started off as a club but it started to become more about the club rather than the work. So we shut it down, pulled all patches,took down the website and have done away with every part of the club. We then formed Registry Riders to be a support organization for cancer patients and their families. We started over again with a new name and a whole new structure. We are an organization and not a club. We have a new website that will help church clubs, family clubs or independents all join together to stand behind Be The Match and working with kids to teach them about motorcycles and charity work. We work side by side with Be The Match to help them in finding and matching the right donor to the recipient in need of a transplant and to help inform people of the need for donors and financial support. We also visit cancer patents in the hospital and offer support to donors while they are going through the donation process when we are able to. We set up on bike nights,Church functions,Car/Bike shows or poker runs to help inform people of the need and ask them to register as a donor. We also ride to meet up with individuals that want to get registered because you never know if that could be the match that saves a life. Future Programs We are also working on a future biker program to teach children about motorcycles and bring them into doing charity work along side of us. Registry Riders will be putting the online classes together for each local club or ministry to use with the kids they work with. Lesson plans will also be provided for hands on classroom time. We will be setting up an online Biker Church that will be made up of sermons from various churches and ministries in the Biker community. The Story of Drifter My older brother was diagnosed with leukemia at the age of 10. Growing up seeing first hand the toll it can take on a family left me with a life long burning desire to start a program to help others in need of love a support. I have always felt that by doing this I would be able to find some peace in knowing that the pain I watched my brother, friends and family go through wouldnt be in vain if something good came from it. Part of the vision is to acknowledge the love and care that nurses give to the whole family. When I was about 5 my brother was hospitalized in the middle of the night. I couldnt fall asleep leaning against a wall just outside of his room. A nurse took me and put ear plugs in my ears and made a bed for me under her desk and helped me get some rest while she did her paperwork. I will never know her name but the memory of that has stuck with me and it is my wish that I can show them that the small things they do mean the word to the people that need it most and it is my hope that we can be there for people with that loving heart because she had no way of knowing what would come of that gesture 30 years later. I was 15 when I figured out what I wanted to do with my life but it took me 20 years and a lot of failed attempts before I finally found the right way because I always put the cart before the horse and was trying to do it my way and not be lead by the Spirit. Through my life the Lord has put people in my path to teach me or encourage me when I needed it most. In my early 20s I had already failed a few times at starting up a business to fund the organization because I never wanted to ask for help in funding it. I had almost given up hope when another investment tanked but an older guy I was working with looked at me and said he admired me. I was blown away by that and said why do you admire me every story Ive told you are ones that I have failed. He looked at me and said he would have given up years ago, but I kept picking myself up and trying again. His words have stuck with me over the years and every time I thought of giving up I would think of him and the encouragement he offered. You never really know the small things that you tell someone you dont hardly know that could end up being the driving force they need to accomplish great things. I finally stopped trying for a few years but still kept planning and running things over and over in my mind while I waited on the Lord to open the door this time. I almost joined BACA thinking that might fill the void in my life but my heart was still for cancer patients. My friends told me if I started a motorcycle organization they would ride with me. I did and it was going well but not in the direction I truly wanted it to go. During that time I came to know and love my church family of Freedom Biker Church. One night the leaders sat me down and told me they felt the club was holding the work back. I thought about it all that night and the next day I went to the pastor and told him I was going to shut the club down and start a new organization to do the same work as the club but in a whole different way. The leadership team has stood behind me 100% and I couldnt ask for better brothers. Shortly after that one door after another started opening and the organization started to grow and people all started to come together to help us. Almost every week Im getting another call from people wanting to help open doors for us that I have been trying my whole life to open on my own. I am now at peace with this path that we are on and finally able to rest easy knowing that no matter what happens to me that my biker family from all over the country will pull together to keep this organization going and keep touching as many lives as we can.
Posted on: Mon, 12 Jan 2015 21:49:24 +0000
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