The monthly meeting was called to order with prayer and a devotional by Dave. There were 14 people present.

Prayer Request  

Don’s recovery
Stand-Up for Jesus Rally
Beau’s missionary trip in Jordon
Charlie’s brother Frank in hospital
Harold Eastmur
Marilyn’s lung problems

Officers Reports

The Secretaries minutes were read by Fran.  Charlie made a motion to accept and Vickie 2nd the motion.   All were in favor.

The Treasurers minutes were read by Marilyn.  Diana made a motion to accept and Charlie 2nd the motion.  All were in favor.

Vice-President’s report :

Red, White & Blue Festival Problems
Paul made a motion not to set up booth, Diana 2nd, all were in favor.
Ride with the Blue Knights to Lakeview was successful.  Need more rides with other groups.
John E. will be contact for Retreads.

President’s report:

Popcorn Sales May25 & 26. We need Volunteers.  Sign-up sheet to be passed out at May meeting.  Proceeds will go to International for Sonrise Ride.
Money can also be collected on an individual bases, incentive prices to be given away.  Check Riders Call for information and sign-up sheets or check with Fran.
Sonrise ride will be June 2 starting with the Men’s breakfast at Berean church and then riding to Cracker Barrel in Conway to join with those coming back from helping with the Mid-America Rally in Hot Springs.
Bill, Fran,Warren & Lois will be attending the Missouri State Rally in Union, MO on May 19th.  If anyone is interested in going please contact Warren.

Committee Reports

Ruths:   Next meeting will April at 11:30a.m. at Ta Daz.  We will be discussing the upcoming Ruth’s retreat.
Road Captain:  We are still in need of a road captain.  Anyone interested please contact  John

No old or new business

Paul made a motion to close the meeting.  John E. 2nd the motion.  Dave closed with prayer.

Greetings Chapter 24 Brothers and Sisters,

With this wonderful Spring weather, I hope all of you have had a chance to blow the dust off, get your bikes out and ride. But please check your equipment and bikes carefully. Safety is always first.

We had a wonderful chapter ride Sunday, March 25 to visit the Izard County Riders Swap Meet in Melbourne. On the way back we had the opportunity to grab a cold soda at a golf course pro-shop. This gave us the chance to witness to a completely different group.

Another great ride was when we joined the Blue Knights on March 31 for a ride to support the grand opening of Hog Leathers in Lakeview. We began with breakfast at Mel’s Dinner and then rode with the Blue Knights up 178 to the Lakeview event.

Both of these rides were excellent opportunities to get our name and the name of our Lord out before a wider audience in our community. We have many opportunities like this every month, and each time we wear our colors in public, we are being a witness to our faith.

I have included a list of some mostly secular events where we would have the chance to join and witness. If you can make any of these rides, that would be great. But be careful because secular motorcycle groups may not have the same attitudes towards language and behavior as we do.

April looks to be a quiet month and a chance to get ready for the events of May and June. Our membership meeting Thursday, April 19 will be a time to plan for these important events.

I am sorry to report that the Road Riders for Jesus Chapter 77 Rider Safety Seminar that was scheduled for April 21 has been canceled. I’ll report on a new date when it is available.

Warren is heading for the Missouri State Rally in Union, MO. He’s leaving 5/18 to spend the night up there and attend the rally and return 5/19. He is looking for company on the ride.

We are having our semi-annual kettle corn fund raiser at Wal-Mart May 25 and 26. This is the working part of our Sonrise Ride in which we raise funds for Road Riders for Jesus International. 100% of the money we raise at this fund raiser goes to International. We need lots of help, and we will have a sign-up sheet at the meeting.

A group of us are riding to Hot Springs to help RRJ Chapter 77 with their Sonrise Ride event. They are doing the parking concession at the Mid-America Rally, which runs from May 31 through June 2 at the Garland County Fairgrounds. Our group is leaving from the Berean Church parking lot at 5:30 PM May 31 to ride to the Hot Springs area where we will stay in motels or camp. We will be helping Chapter 77 with parking and booth activities all day Friday, June 1. Then we will return Saturday, June 2 to join the rest of Chapter 24 on the Sonrise Ride.

With the fund raising part done, the fun part of our Sonrise Ride comes after the Mens Prayer Breakfast on June 2. While Charlie is hosting the Mens Breakfast, Diana will be having breakfast with the women. Then everyone will gather at Berean Church and ride to the Cracker Barrel in Conway to meet up with the group returning form the Mid-America Rally. After lunch, everyone will return together.

For those wishing to participate in helping Chapter 77 with the Mid-America Rally, I will have maps, registration, hotel and camping information at the membership meeting.

I am looking forward to hearing your ideas and suggestions as we complete plans for a busy May and June. Please attend our membership meeting April 19, and why not bring a friend?

May the Lord bless each of you.

John

Upcoming Motorcycle Events and Rides

4/21/12  EMS Relay for life Ride
              702 West Dewitt, Beebe, AR.

4/21/12  A.B.A.T.E. Dist 4 Poker Run
              Fayetteville, AR.

4/21/12  RU4C Child Abuse Awarness Ride
             Heartlan Hond , Springdale, AR.

4/26-28/12  Wild Hog Motorcycle Rally and Music Fest
                     Helena, AR.

4/28/12   Elks Benifit Poker run
               Fort Smith Elks Club, Fort Smith AR.

4/28/12  Ozark Brotherhood Spring Poker Run
             Meet at Royal 66  @11:30  Mountain Home, AR.

5/11-12/12  Bugs, Bands, and Bikes
                   Main Street, El Dorado, AR .

5/12/12  Ark 7 2 shake off the Snow Run
              Eureka Springs, AR

5/19/12 RRJ Missouri State Rally
             Union City Missouri

5/19/12  Boy Scout Benifit Ride
              Legion Post 6, Pocahantas, AR.

5/19/12 R.U.M. Run
             Maumelle City Park, Maumelle,AR.

Charlie, George, Paul, Karin & John meet up with the Blue Knights

Saturday, March 31 Chapter 24 members Charlie Mattson, George  Bearden, Paul and Karin Guiley and John Schaub rode with the Blue Knights to support the Grand Opening of Hog Leathers in Lakeview. 

The ride  began with breakfast at Mels Dinner in Mountain Home. Then the Chapter 24 group assembled withe the Blue Knights behind the Baxter Co. Sheriff’s office. 

The ride to Lakeview went out of Mountain Home on 6th street, and then up 178 to Lakeview.

The grand opening event included burgers, hot dogs, cold soft drinks, live music, and plenty of fellowship. There were many door prize drawings and a great time for all.

Behind Hog Leathers

The new Hog Heaven Leathers has joined PGW Consignments  on 178 in Lakeview, AR (870-431-8599)

See all the pics in the gallery.

The monthly meeting was called to order with prayer and a devotional by Dave. There were 10 people present.

Prayer Request  

Warren’s foot to heal
Dave’s prison ministry
Tigan Diana & Charlie’s grandson

Officers Reports

The Secretaries minutes were read by Fran.  Marilyn made a motion to accept and Charlie 2nd the motion.   All were in favor.

The Treasurers minutes were read by Marilyn.  Dave made a motion to accept and Darlene 2nd the motion.  All were in favor.

Vice-President’s report: Red, White & Blue Festival Charlie checked with Mary about a booth (without a fee) to pass out free water.  Any donations made would go back to the festival.  Mary is supposed to get back with him.

President’s report:  Big thanks to Bill for the safety seminar.  It was very informative.

Helping at the Mid-America Rally.  Steve Chapter 77 e-mailed about helping out.  John & Marilyn will be going down on Thurs after Bible study and returning Sat.  Bill, Fran, Warren & Lois, as state representatives, will be going down Fri. Anyone interested in going down & helping please let John know.

Committee Reports

Ruths:  Our next meeting is Mar 21 at 9:30a.m.  We will be delivering the paper mache caves that we made to the local nursing homes.

Road Captain:  We are still in need of a road captain.  Anyone interested please contact  John

Old Business

We passed out new updated members contact listings.

New Business

Ways to recruit new people:  Call members to remind them of meeting, build friendship with other chapters, invite friends and neighbors to RRJ events, go on network and build friendships & go to other local rallies.

Diana made a motion to close the meeting Charlie 2nd the motion.  All were in favor.  George closed the meeting with prayer.

Greetings Chapter 24 Brothers and Sisters,

We had a very informative presentation by Bill Patrick at the Rider Safety Seminar this month. Thank you Bill and thank you all for your participation. For those who missed this, Bill will be conducting another seminar in Hot Springs soon. I will keep you informed of the dates.

At the February membership meeting, I asked some questions about who we are and why we exist. I’ve been asking these questions for a while now, seeking to understand what I must do as your Chapter president.

While there has been and will continue to be lots of discussion about our purpose and our mission, I believe George said it best when he pointed us to the statements in the RRJ membership application.

When each of us joined, we agreed to this statement: “We believe our motorcycles are tools to be used of he Lord as a way of reaching the lost, encouraging new converts and providing Christian fellowship.”

Our purpose and mission falls into these three categories:

1. Reaching the Lost

2. Encouraging New Converts

3. Christian Fellowship 

Below you will find a partial list of events we are either considering or have committed to for this year. It’s a busy year already, and we have just started! This schedule needs to be further discussed at our next membership meeting.

There is a rally going on here in hot springs may 31 – June 3 benefiting the disabled veterans ( www.Mid-AmericaBikeWeek.org ) we are looking at making a lot of money for RRJ nationals, we could use some help because we are doing all the parking & we get the parking money. If you can help you will get to camp free, if you can let me know, carl will be speaking on Thursday & cliff that spoke at the rally last sept. will be speaking on sat. Let me know if you or someone in your chapter can help. Thanks

We talked about making this our Sonrise event. That way we can raise money for International with our Kettle corn sales May 25-26, and then we can help with the parking at the Mid-America rally May 31-June 3.

As you can see from Steve’s note, he needs to know how we will be helping him, so he can plan. We will discuss this in more detail at our membership meeting March 15.

Here are the events we have on the schedule as of now:

May 25-26 — Kettle Corn Sales at Wal-Mart

May 31-June 3 — Mid-America Rally – Sonrise Ride

Jun 29-July 1 — Red, White & Blue Rally ?? not sure of dates or participation

July 21 — Back Pack Ride for food bank ??

Aug 17-18 — Mountains, Motorcycles, Music Rally ?? not sure of dates

Sep 6-8 — Days of Praise Rally Sept 22 Cotter Bridge Bash for food bank ??

Oct ?? — Kettle Corn Sales at Wal-Mart

In addition to these, we have the Mens Breakfast on the 1st Saturday of each month, with a fellowship rider following.

We also discussed additional fellowship rides and pot lucks to fulfill our mission of Christian Fellowship and Encouragement.

Please visit our website (rrj24.org) for up-to-date information, and please plan to be at our membership meeting March 15.

May the Lord bless each one of you.John

The monthly meeting was called to order with prayer and a devotional by George. There were 11 people present.
The Secretaries minutes were read by Fran.  Paul made a motion to accept and Diana 2nd the motion.   All were in favor.
The Treasurers minutes were read by Marilyn.  Bill made a motion to accept and Paul 2nd the motion.  All were in favor.

Old Business
There was no old business discussed

New Business
A new agenda (copy here) and questionnaire was passed out. (copy here) 

John made a motion to accept new agenda for meetings.  
George 2nd the motion and all were in favor.

We discussed who we are and our objectives.
We are still in need of a Road Captain

Marilyn went over this year’s calendar

March 3rd we will be having a safety course at Burean Church.  Flyers were passed out
The popcorn sales will be Fri. May 25 & Sat 26
Sonrise Ride and Blue & Gold festival in June
Backpack Ride in July
Mountain Music & Motorcycles in Aug.
Days of Praise Sept 5-9
Bridge Bash in Oct.

Ruths will meet Feb 22 at Burean Church at 11:30

Paul made a motion to close the meeting John 2nd the motion.  All were in favor.  

Dave closed the meeting with prayer.

Who are we?

What defines us?

What are we known for, or what do we want to be know for?

Why should someone support us rather than another group? (There are so many choices.)

How are we different from the other clubs, ministries?

How do we communicate this in a meaningful way?

What are our goals?

Growth? How much?

Financial? For us, for International, how much?

Events? Which ones?

Impact? What do we want to accomplish?

How much can we do each year? 

Budgets

Time budget…. if our member’s time is valuable, where do we direct it?

Financial budget … what do we invest in? 

How will this help accomplish our goals?

What are our strengths? How do they contribute to our goals? What needs to stay the same?

Where are we weak? How can we get stronger? What needs to change?

As a member, what do you want from this ministry?

What commitments do we have right now?

Agenda:

Call to order (The bylaws do not require any quorum to conduct meeting.)

Devotion and prayer

Receive prayer requests for members and family

Officer’s Reports

Secretary

Treasurer

Vice President

President

Committee Reports

R.U.T.H.S.

Road Captain

Others

Old Business

New Business

Close with prayer.

Motion / Voting process:

Motion

Second (if no second, motion dies)

Chair restates motion, secretary records, maker and seconder must agree.

Discussion – members address the chair, everyone gets an opportunity to speak.

Vote – Chair may call the question when discussion ends, or motion to call the question.

Types of Motions

Call the question – ends discussion, forces immediate vote on the current motion.

Friendly amendment – no vote needed, requires agreement of maker and seconder.

Amend motion – does not require agreement of maker or seconder.

Table motion – discussion ends,  begins again under old business next meeting.

Move the agenda – discussion of the current topic ends. Any pending motion is tabled.

Adjournment – ends the meeting. Not in order when another motion is pending.

Reports:

Minutes and treasurer’s report must be accepted by motion, second, vote.

Either of these reports may be corrected or amended during the discussion.

Any motion related to the topic of a report is allowed during the report.

Chapter Business:

The meeting is called to order by the chair and closed by successful motion to adjourn.

Chapter business including all activities, expenditures and publications must be approved by the membership through the voting process

New business may be brought before the meeting by any member during the new business period of the meeting. Except for new business, all discussion and motions must relate to the business or report before the meeting. The chair may determine that a motion is not in order if it does not relate to business or report being discussed.

The monthly meeting was called to order with prayer and a devotional by Dave. There were 12 people present.

The Secretary’s minutes were read by Fran.  Don made a motion to accept and Dave 2nd the motion.   All were in favor.

The Treasurer’s minutes were read by Marilyn.  Paul made a motion to accept and Charlie 2nd the motion.  All were in favor.

Old Business
Polar Bear Ride   We had a good showing.  We had 58 bikes and 67 people there.  

New Business
Election of Officers

Since only one person was nominated for each position an election by acclamation was conducted.

Secretary  Fran Patrick  Paul made a motion to elect by acclamation and 2nd by Charlie.  All were in favor

Treasurer  Marilyn Schaub  Don made a motion to elect by acclamation and 2nd by Paul.  All were in favor.

Chaplin  George Beardon  Charlie made a motion to elect by acclamation and 2nd by Dave.  All were in favor.

Vice- President  Charlie Mattson  Paul made a motion to elect by acclamation and 2nd by John.  All were in favor.

President  John Schuab Dave made the motion to elect by acclamation and 2nd by Charlie.  All were in favor.

Safety Seminar  There will be a safety seminar on Mar 3 at the Burean Bible Church from 10:00a.m until 4:00 p.m.

Ruths will be having their monthly meeting Feb 22 at Mels Diner at 11:30a.m.

International RRJ is having financial needs.  If possible, it would help if you could send in some money individually.

RRJ Days of Praise Rally is in Sept.  If you need to hold a room, send in your application along with a deposit to Sally.

Mid America Bike Rally is being held in Hot Springs in May.  Chapter 74 has agreed to do the parking but need help.  They are being allowed to keep all the proceeds which they have elected to send to International.  If you can help please let Bill know.

Paul made a motion to close the meeting John 2nd the motion.  All were in favor.   Dave closed the meeting with prayer.