RACE REPORT/MESSAGE
Swap Moto Race Series at Glen Helen Raceway 4/25/2021
So I had a late start to the race weekend getting out to the track at 8pm Saturday night deciding to skip the days practice to spend time at home after a busy work week and spent time preparing for the upcoming wedding of our youngest daughter. We are in a very busy time of life but thankful for it. I was able to get all set up and ready for the morning devotional, canopies, coffee maker, lemonade, tables, sound system etc... ready to go and ready for some sleep but not before going over the mornings devotional one more time.
Sunday morning starts at 5:50am setting out signs and donuts, getting the coffee brewing etc... The gates opened at 6am and the hustle of the day began. Before we knew it people started to gather, friends started to come by and say hello grabbing coffee as soon as it got hot. By 7:15 we couldn't believe it we had so many people fellowshipping it was incredible to watch as the worship music played in the background it was like we were at church, such a rad time!
The title of the devotional for the morning was called "SPENT"..............
"How do you want to be spent?" We are all going to be exhausted and spent at the end of this lifetime one way or the other so how will you be spent?
Whats your ambition? Some would say "I just want to race my dirt bike forever", maybe some would say "I want to make millions" but very few would say "I want to go and share the Gospel where no man has gone before"
Paul wrote in Romans 15:20 "My ambition has always been to preach the good news where the name of Christ has never been heard" Like maybe even a motocross track haha! You see the definition of Ambition is: a strong desire to do or to achieve something, typically requiring determination and hard work. Listen gang the best way to be spent is sharing the gospel of Jesus Christ! Paul wrote in Philippians 1:22 "If I am to go on living in the body, this will mean fruitful labor for me". Fruitful labor!!! That means things that would produce things that matter for the kingdom of God! Pastor Chuck Smith would always say "You have only one life and it will soon be past, and only what's done for Christ will last". And the older we get the more this makes sense haha.One of my favorite verses is Matthew 16:24-26, it says "Then Jesus said to His disciples, "if anyone desires to come after Me, let him deny himself, and take up his cross, and follow Me. For whoever desires to save his life will lose it, but whoever loses his life for my name sake will find it, for what profit is it to a man if he gains the whole world, and loses his own soul?" Deny myself? Are you kidding me haha how foreign is that these days where we have a self serving Instagram world promoting what.... Self!!! The challenge is to forget the focus of self and put the focus on Jesus and watch what God does, dare Him to move in your life. In Galatians 2:20 Paul writes "I have been crucified with Christ; it is no longer I who lives, but Christ lives in me; and the life which I now live in the flesh I live by faith in the Son of God, who loved me and gave Himself for me"... Listen gang, the message is pretty clear, there is no better way to be spent than to share and live out the gospel! When we come to the end what will our legacy look like, a life chasing things that don't really matter, money, success, fame etc... The challenge and question is this, will you redirect your life? Will you be spent on Jesus? Will you leave a legacy that simply points people to Jesus with how we live out our faith? I will leave you with this, 2 Timothy 4:7-8 Paul writes "I have fought a good fight, I have finished my course, I have kept the faith: Henceforth there is laid up for me a crown of righteousness, which the Lord the righteous judge, shall give me at that day and not to me only, but unto all them also that love His appearing"
The rest of the day was amazing as I'm always blown away by the conversations started over a cup of coffee and donuts. We were able to serve up about 6 gallons of coffee and a couple gallons of lemonade, we had so many families stop by excited what God is doing with 3N1MX at the track, so many kids grabbing donuts and cookies and lemonade, one kid couldn't believe they were free and said that we could possibly become his best friends with free donuts haha!! We really feel as though God is really moving in the hearts of the moto community and we are just trying to stay obedient to calling God has placed on our hearts, Love you family see you at the races and remember to KEEP THE FAITH, HEED THE CALL!!!! Jeff
Sunday morning starts at 5:50am setting out signs and donuts, getting the coffee brewing etc... The gates opened at 6am and the hustle of the day began. Before we knew it people started to gather, friends started to come by and say hello grabbing coffee as soon as it got hot. By 7:15 we couldn't believe it we had so many people fellowshipping it was incredible to watch as the worship music played in the background it was like we were at church, such a rad time!
The title of the devotional for the morning was called "SPENT"..............
"How do you want to be spent?" We are all going to be exhausted and spent at the end of this lifetime one way or the other so how will you be spent?
Whats your ambition? Some would say "I just want to race my dirt bike forever", maybe some would say "I want to make millions" but very few would say "I want to go and share the Gospel where no man has gone before"
Paul wrote in Romans 15:20 "My ambition has always been to preach the good news where the name of Christ has never been heard" Like maybe even a motocross track haha! You see the definition of Ambition is: a strong desire to do or to achieve something, typically requiring determination and hard work. Listen gang the best way to be spent is sharing the gospel of Jesus Christ! Paul wrote in Philippians 1:22 "If I am to go on living in the body, this will mean fruitful labor for me". Fruitful labor!!! That means things that would produce things that matter for the kingdom of God! Pastor Chuck Smith would always say "You have only one life and it will soon be past, and only what's done for Christ will last". And the older we get the more this makes sense haha.One of my favorite verses is Matthew 16:24-26, it says "Then Jesus said to His disciples, "if anyone desires to come after Me, let him deny himself, and take up his cross, and follow Me. For whoever desires to save his life will lose it, but whoever loses his life for my name sake will find it, for what profit is it to a man if he gains the whole world, and loses his own soul?" Deny myself? Are you kidding me haha how foreign is that these days where we have a self serving Instagram world promoting what.... Self!!! The challenge is to forget the focus of self and put the focus on Jesus and watch what God does, dare Him to move in your life. In Galatians 2:20 Paul writes "I have been crucified with Christ; it is no longer I who lives, but Christ lives in me; and the life which I now live in the flesh I live by faith in the Son of God, who loved me and gave Himself for me"... Listen gang, the message is pretty clear, there is no better way to be spent than to share and live out the gospel! When we come to the end what will our legacy look like, a life chasing things that don't really matter, money, success, fame etc... The challenge and question is this, will you redirect your life? Will you be spent on Jesus? Will you leave a legacy that simply points people to Jesus with how we live out our faith? I will leave you with this, 2 Timothy 4:7-8 Paul writes "I have fought a good fight, I have finished my course, I have kept the faith: Henceforth there is laid up for me a crown of righteousness, which the Lord the righteous judge, shall give me at that day and not to me only, but unto all them also that love His appearing"
The rest of the day was amazing as I'm always blown away by the conversations started over a cup of coffee and donuts. We were able to serve up about 6 gallons of coffee and a couple gallons of lemonade, we had so many families stop by excited what God is doing with 3N1MX at the track, so many kids grabbing donuts and cookies and lemonade, one kid couldn't believe they were free and said that we could possibly become his best friends with free donuts haha!! We really feel as though God is really moving in the hearts of the moto community and we are just trying to stay obedient to calling God has placed on our hearts, Love you family see you at the races and remember to KEEP THE FAITH, HEED THE CALL!!!! Jeff
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LATEST EMAIL 4/13/2021
Hey gang, been a few months and wanted to catch up, first off we use Instagram mostly to get the word out of where we are headed week to week and for a lot of you that's probably unacceptable haha so hopefully we can do better at the emails or the website, we will do better! It's been a really exciting few months as God continues to show us that He is the business of touching hearts and bringing people around to hear the word of God at a motocross track and that will always blow my mind. We have been at Glen Helen, LACR Raceway in Palmdale and State Fair MX in Perris in the last 6 weeks and God has grown our morning devotional at each event, even when I'm wondering who will show up He always blows me away and brings the people. Also what we see happening is its much more than the morning service, it's about the conversations that are happening throughout the day, people are encouraging us with their excitement of seeing a faith based ministry at the track and people seem to be generally blessed by the encouragement we are able to give them in their faith, it really is a beautiful thing!
We have also been blown away by you all that are giving to the ministry as we have been praying about some needs and wow, we are excited to say we are moving forward with those. We were able to get 2 more canopies, 1 going to Curt Wharton up in Washington as he is starting to spread the word on our annual Top Gun Race at Washougal at the end of summer. Also we continue to set up with free Coffee and Donuts with snacks, water etc.. also we were able to order a bunch of new tee-shirts and hats which everyone seems to really like. Something we have the green light on is to start looking for a small Trailer we can sleep in overnight at these races which we have found to be difficult with the crazy prices for used ones as we really don't want to buy something that is going to need a lot of work so be praying God leads us to that perfect fit. As some of you know the Mosimans have been letting us use their Sprinter Van and what a blessing that has been, we really couldn't do what we do without it at this point, very thankful! There is also a good chance that we will have a loaner Motorhome in the meantime available soon, Lord willing!
Something we wanted to bring to your attention was about our friend we had met last year up at the Top Gun race in Washington. We met Bill Alverson on practice day at the track, I was lined up for practice and Bill had noticed the 3N1MX on my bike and said he loved seeing it and that he too was a believer, he came and found us after practice and he shared with us that he had been fighting leukemia and that it was in remission and he was just thrilled to be riding, not racing, just practice. So we were able to pray with him and encourage him as he left that day, we exchanged info and said our goodbyes. Well about 2 months ago we contacted him and unfortunately the cancer was back and he was in the hospital doing treatments and on top of it he was there mostly alone as he wasn't allowed visitors with the covid restrictions. Well with that said Bill would never ask for anything and in fact has encouraged me and challenged me with his complete trust in the Lord, you find him on Youtube as he is putting out updates daily. With that he is have a Bone Marrow Transplant on May 4th the Lord willing, they are pretty confident that things will get better but it's a long road to recovery to be sure so we are just putting it out there if you guys would like to first be praying for him, also to bless him and encourage him you can send a note or maybe a gift card also to Bill Alverson 114 Sanford Ct Chehalis Wa 98532
It sure would bless him to hear a word of encouragement from his moto family at 3N1MX!
So to end this we really just wanted to share that God keeps reminding us to remain faithful with the little things, you know the times when im asking God "Who is even going to show up Lord" haha so thats what we are doing even when we are in fear or doubting we will remail faithful to what God has called us to do and trust that He will do the rest and wow has He been faithful in blowing our minds with some sweet fruit. In Hebrews 11:8 it says "By faith Abraham, when called to go to a place he would later receive as his inheritance, obeyed and went even though he did not know where he was going" sometimes we feel like we dont know exactly where we are going, yes we know we are called to do outreach in the moto community but as we walk by faith we will allow the Holy Spirtit to direct and point us in that direction and sometimes its by blind faith we must follow and that what we will continue to do, thanks for reading and allowing us room in your busy day, may God richly bless you and strengthen you as you walk day by day in His incredible grace!!! Jeff
We have also been blown away by you all that are giving to the ministry as we have been praying about some needs and wow, we are excited to say we are moving forward with those. We were able to get 2 more canopies, 1 going to Curt Wharton up in Washington as he is starting to spread the word on our annual Top Gun Race at Washougal at the end of summer. Also we continue to set up with free Coffee and Donuts with snacks, water etc.. also we were able to order a bunch of new tee-shirts and hats which everyone seems to really like. Something we have the green light on is to start looking for a small Trailer we can sleep in overnight at these races which we have found to be difficult with the crazy prices for used ones as we really don't want to buy something that is going to need a lot of work so be praying God leads us to that perfect fit. As some of you know the Mosimans have been letting us use their Sprinter Van and what a blessing that has been, we really couldn't do what we do without it at this point, very thankful! There is also a good chance that we will have a loaner Motorhome in the meantime available soon, Lord willing!
Something we wanted to bring to your attention was about our friend we had met last year up at the Top Gun race in Washington. We met Bill Alverson on practice day at the track, I was lined up for practice and Bill had noticed the 3N1MX on my bike and said he loved seeing it and that he too was a believer, he came and found us after practice and he shared with us that he had been fighting leukemia and that it was in remission and he was just thrilled to be riding, not racing, just practice. So we were able to pray with him and encourage him as he left that day, we exchanged info and said our goodbyes. Well about 2 months ago we contacted him and unfortunately the cancer was back and he was in the hospital doing treatments and on top of it he was there mostly alone as he wasn't allowed visitors with the covid restrictions. Well with that said Bill would never ask for anything and in fact has encouraged me and challenged me with his complete trust in the Lord, you find him on Youtube as he is putting out updates daily. With that he is have a Bone Marrow Transplant on May 4th the Lord willing, they are pretty confident that things will get better but it's a long road to recovery to be sure so we are just putting it out there if you guys would like to first be praying for him, also to bless him and encourage him you can send a note or maybe a gift card also to Bill Alverson 114 Sanford Ct Chehalis Wa 98532
It sure would bless him to hear a word of encouragement from his moto family at 3N1MX!
So to end this we really just wanted to share that God keeps reminding us to remain faithful with the little things, you know the times when im asking God "Who is even going to show up Lord" haha so thats what we are doing even when we are in fear or doubting we will remail faithful to what God has called us to do and trust that He will do the rest and wow has He been faithful in blowing our minds with some sweet fruit. In Hebrews 11:8 it says "By faith Abraham, when called to go to a place he would later receive as his inheritance, obeyed and went even though he did not know where he was going" sometimes we feel like we dont know exactly where we are going, yes we know we are called to do outreach in the moto community but as we walk by faith we will allow the Holy Spirtit to direct and point us in that direction and sometimes its by blind faith we must follow and that what we will continue to do, thanks for reading and allowing us room in your busy day, may God richly bless you and strengthen you as you walk day by day in His incredible grace!!! Jeff
RACING REPORT/MESSAGE 4/16/2021
So we have really tried to stay committed to showing up consistently at the Swapmoto Race series and that has been a huge blessing. We have seen some real fruit as God continues to bring the families and kids and we are growing in our relationships. Our message at this last race was on "Hope" as God has really stirred our heart to share on hope because it seems we are surrounded with a lot of hopelessness. The definition of hope is the expectation of coming good. The challenge is are we living as the the best is yet to come? Romans 8:25 says "But if we hope for what we do not see, we eagerly wait for it with perseverance" meaning we are going to persevere through whatever suffering, whatever doubt, whatever fear or whatever loss we are dealing with with the expectation that the best is yet to come, that there is indeed a coming good! Romans 8:18 says "For I consider that the sufferings of this present time are not worthy to be compared with the glory which shall be revealed in us". When we choose to live with hope it puts a brighter perspective on our decision making, to push forward in the light of heaven as we journey through this life. You see as believers our hope is eternal, we must live with a eternal perspective because..... well we are going to live forever and that something to be glad about, that's something to be considered every day of our lives. Most of us know Romans 8:28 "And we know that all things work together for good to those who love God, to those who are called according to His purpose" So remember whatever you are going through it isn't a surprise to God, He is for you not against you so wild with the expectation of come good!!!
We had a lot of help at these last few races with Jason and Shawna Lowther as they were there to race and come alongside us in setting up and tearing down also just loving on people, huge blessing to be sure. We will be at the next Swapmoto Race at Glen Helen on April 24/25 where we look forward to building relationships and loving people, if you would like to park with us or help in any way please let us know, the more the merrier! Looking forward to a rad weekend, Gods blessings family!
We had a lot of help at these last few races with Jason and Shawna Lowther as they were there to race and come alongside us in setting up and tearing down also just loving on people, huge blessing to be sure. We will be at the next Swapmoto Race at Glen Helen on April 24/25 where we look forward to building relationships and loving people, if you would like to park with us or help in any way please let us know, the more the merrier! Looking forward to a rad weekend, Gods blessings family!
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