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NCOM CHRISTIAN UNITY e-NEWS October 2008

What a long strange year it has been! In our travels across the country to the large motorcycle events, we have seen attendance dropping significantly. We are certain that the economy along with the high gas prices and the higher airfares has attributed to the decline in travel in general. With many hotel websites feeling the crunch, there have been incentives to keep traveling, such as hotels.com and many others offering gas cards if you book a hotel for 2 nights or more, and other reward programs offering double points for hotel stays. As we are on the road for about 75 days out of the year, we have been able to take advantage of some of those offers. We encourage you to look into some of those deals out there. These motorcycle events are a large mission field and the laborers have been few this year. This was seen especially in Sturgis. Let’s all trust in God’s economy and His love for reaching the lost; we need to be out there more than ever as crisis after crisis hits our nation. We will be in Daytona for Biketoberfest and hope to be speaking to some of the hotels there. Price gouging at these large events has been terrible. Rooms that are offered for $60, go for over $200 a night at almost all the large events. It is time to let them know also, that the party is over for making big bucks off bikers. When you book rooms for motorcycle events, make sure you ask them if they are reducing the rates because of the economy. You may be surprised to get a better rate.
We held our third regional Christian Unity event in Atlanta, Georgia in September. This was held in conjunction with Wheels of Grace Magazine’s Unity Ride that was held in 12 locations around the country. We haven’t heard yet about the numbers in all locations, or the amount of money raised for Prison Fellowship’s Angel Tree program, but it was successful, a lot of fun, and served to unite the many different Christian bikers that attended. We can work together for a common goal!
At the Atlanta regional meeting, we shared about the National Coalition of Motorcyclists and the Christian Unity movement and also discussed the goal of developing a Nationwide Christian Unity Council much like a coalition or confederation. This would be made up of active Christian Unity member groups. Some of the groups represented were already NCOM members, though we did sign up a good number of people as well as give them their Christian Unity patches. We have begun contacting Christian motorcycle groups to work on systematically enrolling each of their members to NCOM Christian Unity. We know this is going to be a long process, as some leaders of those ministries don’t have accurate member lists. But we are working on it. This will be much easier than getting individuals signed up all over the country. So if you are in a ministry and want to become a member group, please contact us. You will be listed on the AIM/NCOM site as such and a banner can be linked to your website.

UPCOMING EVENTS

This year’s West Coast NCOM Regional Conference will be held at the downtown La Quinta Hotel, on October 25th. This is for Region 1 - Alaska, California, Hawaii, Oregon, and Idaho. It’s a free one-day biker’s rights conference, from the National Coalition of Motorcyclists. There will not be a Christian Unity Regional meeting, but there’s no stopping some of you in that area to visit with each other. We hope to make that one next year with the Christian Unity meetings.

The next NCOM convention will be held in Reno, Nevada on May 7 – 10, 2009 at the Nugget Casino and Resort. Mark your calendars and plan to attend. If you want to be involved in the Christian Unity events at next year’s NCOM convention, there are a lot of opportunities to serve. Soldiers for Jesus mc hosts a hospitality room, other groups are welcome to do the same, each year there is a bike blessing, people are needed to shuttle conferees to and from the airport, help is needed to man the Christian unity table and sign up new members, and help is needed to set up the meeting rooms. Those are just a few examples that Christian groups can participate in. If your group would like to serve at the next NCOM convention, contact us at ncom.christianunity@gmail.com Also the pre-registration form was recently put on the AIM/NCOM website. Rooms disappear in a hurry, so if you are planning to attend, start looking at reserving a room.

2009 24th Annual NCOM Convention

Upcoming Christian Unity Regional meetings -

Our last CU meeting for the year will be held in the Midwest at the NCOM Region IV Meeting and Seminar. This will be held in Columbus Ohio on Saturday, November 8 at the Holiday Inn Columbus Airport. Room rates are $79 if you mention NCOM. Region IV covers Ohio, Illinois, Indiana, Wisconsin, Minnesota and Michigan. If you are in these areas, we invite you to come and/or send ministry representatives with you. As always, the meetings are free and there is much to learn and bring back to fight the good fight where you live. For more info go to the AIM/NCOM website and click on the fliers:
NCOM Region IV Flyer 08
Christian Unity Region IV Flyer 08

And lastly, a few pieces of news -
And so you know, HARLEY-DAVIDSON RECALL: Harley has recalled almost fifty-thousand 2008 bikes, the FLHP, FLHPE, FLHR, FLHRC, FLHRSE4, FLHT, FLHTC, FLHTCU, FLHTCUSE3, FLHTP, FLHX, and FLTR models. These bikes may lose fuel pressure due to cracking of the fuel filter shell. This could lead to stalls and failure starting. And of course, if you stall in traffic you can end up going down real hard. Harley dealers will replace the fuel filter shell for free.

Our year end newsletter we will be spotlighting some biker ministries that we have been in contact with. If you have any news, please email us.

Serving Him with joy, Louis Nobs Editor ncom.christianunity@gmail.com