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Well, it's great to have you with us. Of course, we're no we're no stranger with one another. We go back a number of years. And let me just interject before we get to the launch of Two Four Two Biker Church. Take a minute and and tell us about the family.
Well, I have ten children, seven boys and three girls. I've got a Eighteen grandchildren, my nineteenth grandchild to be born the end of June. Very busy. Been married to my wife for over twenty-five years. We've been together.
Wasn't great husband and father back in the earlier days, but after man camp, all that changed.
Well, in fact, yeah.
Well, and you know, I was kind of when I was with you just just recently, I was kind of blown away by. You know, talking to you and your bride there out out in the parking lot, and and I've told a couple people this story how how she said prior to man camp she was to use a not a wrestling term but a racing term right right that she was she was waving the checkered flag like she was done like done done done and with the marriage and but when you returned from man camp. All of that changed, and that that was about five, I guess, about five years ago. Twenty twenty one, I think, is when you came to Man Camp, right? Yes, sir, it is correct.
Yes, and and so you know, of course, I love hearing the stories and and those kind of testimonies, especially from the wives, where where you know the the men come home, and which is part of the vision when Lex Luger and I were given the vision for Man Camp was to, you know, to empower. Man, equip men, see men's hearts healed and see them restored. And and of course, there's many many stories like yours where marriages were restored, just like yours was, and relationships with with you know with dads and with their children and ten children. I did not realize. I'm going to back back up here a second.
I did not realize you had ten children. Yes, sir. I do. I've got ten children. Like I said, seven boys and three girls.
Now we did lose Emily, my youngest daughter, in two thousand fifteen to cancer. She passed away when she was sixteen. But they're all doing very well. I mean, most of them have children of their own, except for my youngest, Gabriel. He's in the military.
He's in eighty second Airborne stationed at Fort Bragg.
Okay, and little side note there.
So, so my my dad was in the eighty second Airborne.
Okay. Yep. And he was a part of, of course, part of World War Two, and then he was an MP in the Korean War. Oh wow! Yeah, and he told me just prior to his passing, it was actually on the last Father's Day that we had together.
I dedicated actual entire show to my dad, but he he shared a story with me, like a in vivid detail, Ray, of of him and I guess his unit liberating. A concentration camp in Germany. Wow! Yeah, back, back, way back when, and man, it blew me away. Like I, you know, I had no idea.
I knew he's in the military, but I had no idea. And and when he was telling me the story, it was almost I had the the sense that like he was there, like visualizing what you know what they saw, and I would I would later tell my sister about it. She's like. Oh my gosh! How'd you how'd you get him to talk about that?
I'm like, I just asked some questions. He just opened up and, you know, started sharing. And yeah, but um, so that's pretty cool that your son's in the in the 82nd Airborne, and so and 18 grandchildren. I I just recently had my 15th, so I'm trying to catch up to you. Wow, that's awesome!
Yeah, so in in fact, I'm getting ready to go meet little Townsend number fifteen here real soon. We're gonna go go meet him and and celebrate my my daughter Colby, my my youngest daughter. Just that was their third adoption in three years. Wow, that's awesome! Yeah, so they so talk about having your hands full.
They they have so they now have a newborn, a one year old, and a two year old. Oh wow! And and as of as of the date date of this recording, celebrating their their anniversary as well, and it's all in May. Everything's in May, and her birthday's in May. Like it's all in May.
So her birthday's in May, their anniversary's in May, the three kids are in May. The only the only oddball is Andrew, her husband. He's the the odd man out there.
So anyway, anyway, well, Ray, let me ask you. If you know we we hadn't really talked about what what we're going to talk about, but so your daughter that you lost in 2015 at the age of 16, I'm I'm just curious if you don't mind, you don't have to. Going to vivid detail, or you know, a lot of detail. But how did that impact you? You know, one as you know, I guess, as a parent, how how did that impact you?
You know, losing her at such a young age. If I go into this, it all leads back into Man Camp, because the story of Emily. She she was a cheerleader. She ran track. Beautiful blonde haired girl.
I mean, blue eyes. I mean, just you know, every boy's dream of a girlfriend. The way Emily looked. I mean, she was a beautiful young lady. And she came home from school one day, and she would had been running track, and She said that she had an obese leg and a regular leg, and her mother tried to explain, "Well, you know, everybody has a body part bigger than another.
It's, you know, it's it's normal." But she said, "No, Mama, I got an obese leg and a regular leg." And we were like, "What are you talking about?" And she pulled her pants down and showed me her right calf, and it was about the size of mine. Immediately, as parents, we knew something was wrong. Right, took her to four or five different doctors, and none of them could tell us what was going on. And finally, had one more doctor we were referred to, and took her to him. And he said, "I think I know what it is, but they're they're going to want to see you at Levine's in Charlotte.
You need to take her up there. They're waiting on you." So we took Emily up there. On May the eleventh of two thousand eleven, we found out that Emily had cancer. On May the fourteenth of two thousand eleven, we found out it was stage four. Emily.
Decided when she found out she wasn't going to let cancer beat her or take over her life, and she cut her hair off, shaved her head herself, went and wanted to donate her hair to to the hair for children so they could have wigs and stuff, and she went and did that. Wow! And we watched her grow, and we watched her faith grow, and. A little backstory on this is—it's really a weird thing that kind of happens, and you could see God was moving and working through the whole thing. But the very beginning of the story is, Emily Sunday School Youth Leader said, "You know, who is willing to say that if it meant them dying?" That they would present the gospel, and it would be worth it if only one person got saved.
Who would be willing to stand up and take that challenge? And Emily was the very first in the class to stand up and say she would. And another kid stood up and said that. Then the Sunday school teacher stood up and said that. Turns out that Emily was diagnosed with cancer.
Within I don't know couple months of that happening, and a year into Emily's diagnosis of cancer and her battling the cancer, the other girl that stood up for the challenge she was diagnosed with cancer. Oh wow! Six months later, the Sunday school teacher was diagnosed with cancer. Emily passed away in two thousand fifteen. The Sunday school teacher passed away in 2016.
The other girl lived, and she's living a very nice life now. Cancer's gone, and but Emily would always go to churches and and give her testimony of faith. And she said, if only one person gets saved, it's all worth it. She said, but I know where I'm going when I take my last breath. God's already told me I'm gonna die.
She said, so I'm okay with that. She said, but because I know where I'm going. Do you know where you're going? Wow. And I was so angry with God over it.
I won't lie. I, and I didn't realize how angry I was until I was diagnosed with cancer in 2020. And right soon after my diagnosis is when I found out about the man camp, and through a friend of mine who had been to man camp, and of course I talked to you and we we talked about it, but being at man camp, sitting on the mountain when we were fasting, which I had never done before. And and I'll be honest, I had in my mind to cheat because I was I'm a fat kid. I love to eat.
And sure, sure, I brought crackers with me and Slim Jims and cookies. And I said, you know, if I get hungry, I'm gonna eat. You know, you're probably not the only one to ever do that, Ray. But go ahead.
Well, I mean, you know, I did. I I that that was my mindset. I didn't realize the importance of of making that commitment. Right, right, and I was so tore up, and I as I start talking about it, it gets me even more because I realize how bad I was then and didn't even know it because I I was full of religion. I went to church, I sang at church, and I spoke at churches, and I was a you know a youth leader and and stuff like that, but.
I didn't live that that faithful follower of Christ life. I don't even like to say Christian because it's so flippantly used now. Right, for real, yeah. But but I'm I'm that's the life I was living.
So of course I'm falling still into that, and I'm sitting on that in my chair. On the side of the hill, and I'm looking out across this valley, and way off in the distance, I see this water tower, and the sun's coming up behind it. And for the first time ever in my life, I heard God speak to me, and He said, "Why are you so angry with me?" And I won't lie; I jumped up out of my chair because the voice was loud enough. Till I thought someone was there messing with me, and you know, there's other men there at camp, and there's younger guys, and they they like to horse around and play jokes and stuff. And I thought somebody was messing with me, and I got up and I looked around.
There was nobody to be found around me, and I sat back down in my chair and I heard the voice again. Why are you so angry with me? And I said, really. If that's you, God, why do you think I'm angry? I said you took my baby.
She had more faith in anyone I've ever met that you were going to heal her, and you took her. And look at us now.
Now I'm half cancer. I cannot have my family go through this again. I won't. And I heard the voice again. He said.
If you don't follow me and give me your life, you'll die and go to hell. I said, "Okay, Lord, I'll make a deal with you." I know that wasn't right, but I said, "I'll make a deal with you. You take this cancer away from me, and I'll follow you and do anything you tell me to do." And I understand if I don't, I'll die and go to hell. And the wind blew, and my pages of my Bible turned to Proverbs chapter two and three, where it starts talking about wisdom. And I read it, and then I thought about Dave Busby, Psalm thirty-four eight, and I've got that on our church wood burned into the background of our podium there in church.
Oh, taste and see that the Lord is good. Blessed is the man who trusts in Him. And I thought about all those things, and for three days, almost three days, I fasted, didn't eat anything, and I felt so in touch and so close to God, closer than I'd ever been. And then that night at worship. When you came over and you laid your hands on me and started praying for me, and you said, "Ray, I want you to raise your hands and say, 'I believe and I receive,' I believe and I receive." And while you're praying, Pastor Jerry came over, Dylan's grandfather, that Church of God preacher, and he laid his hands on my forehead and started praying for me, and I felt the power of God grab a hold of me.
Like I've never felt before, and then Rico, the the Puerto Rican feller, Hispanic guy, when he came, or I couldn't understand nothing he said. Right, but I know he was talking to God. He was shaking. His hand was as big as my face. I almost couldn't breathe.
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Powerful, Ray. And I knew the that God had something for me. And I'd be doing my wife, my kids, myself. And most of all, him and my daughter at this service by not trusting him. After that, you ask the question: Have you been released?
I said, "Praise God, He's released me." I'm so hungry, and I ate, but I couldn't get enough of the word. I couldn't get enough of my Bible study. And Dylan, who walked around with me during man camp, he fasted while I did, and I asked him why. He said, "But God told because God told me you needed somebody with you to support you, and that's what I'm doing." Wow! Wow!
And when I got home, I won't lie. I cried all the way from Royston, Georgia, to Rock Hill, South Carolina, until I pulled in my driveway. And I was talking to God the entire time. My wife called me on my phone three times, and three times I hung up on her. I told her, I said, "Me and God are doing business.
I ain't got time to talk to you right now. I'll see you when I get home, 'cause we gotta talk." And I hung up on her. I finally cut my phone off. And when I pulled in my driveway, and I backed in my truck, she was sitting at the picnic table in our carport. She jumped up, and I got out of my truck, and I told her, "I said, no, baby, you need to sit down.
I need to talk to you." And I got on my knees in front of her, and I apologized for running around on her, for playing church. For doing all the things I'd done, I admitted it all to her, and she said, "I already knew, but I had faith that God would change you, and that's why I'm still here. That's why I stayed." And I said, "If you stay with me, I promise you, I will be a different man, and I've been different ever since. And God has been so good to me." Well, yeah, I mean, here you here you are, Ray. You know, five years later, and you know, a cancer survivor.
And of course, I had the privilege. I want to squeeze this in before we run out of time. It's such a powerful story and a testimony for for what camp can do. You know, for for men. You know, potentially if they embrace it like you did, and and then the story of coming home and and you know, I opened up the show talking about you know your your biker church from Acts two four two chapter two.
Verse forty-two. Before we run run out of time, I want to fast forward to that from camp till till now. You know, so your marriage is restored. You're a cancer survivor. Mancamp greatly impacted you.
God gave you a vision, and you you started a church in a garage. As I learned the story, with no air conditioning, with no heat and no bathroom, with about a dozen people for four years, faithful you did that for four years in a garage, no heat, no AC, no bathroom, and people showed up. And just more recently, I had the privilege that God. Finally, provided a building, an actual building, or and I had the privilege of coming down and kind of helping to kick off your inaugural service. Where, if I remember, I think we had eighty-three people there at your inaugural service.
Ninety people. How many did it count? There was ninety people there that morning. Ninety. And so, take take Ray, take just a minute.
We only got a few minutes left. But take how did you? Why axe two forty two? Why? Why did you name the church Acts two forty two?
Well, I was standing in a bar one night at a benefit, and God told me, "This is your mission field. I want you to start a church." I said, "Lord, I don't know how to do that." Lord said, "Just trust me. I'll make a way." So three of us started a church, and we were trying to come up for a name. And the guy who I picked for the pastor of the church, EJ, said, "What about this Bible verse right here, Acts two forty two?" And they continued steadfastly in the doctrine of the disciples and fellowship, breaking of bread and prayer. And I said, "Man, that is good." So we named it the two forty two Biker Church after Acts two forty two, because bikers ride together.
They eat together. We fellowship together. We do a lot of things together, and we started that church. And about eight months into the church being started, EJ's job took him away to Georgia, and I preached a couple Sundays, and the church voted me in as pastor. And I've had the privilege of baptizing two of my children, four of my grandchildren.
We've had twenty-eight people get baptized through the church. Lives have changed. We run now about thirty-five consistently on Sundays now, and I'm bringing five gentlemen from my church to man camp in October. Yes, you are, and I am looking forward to see what God does with our church. When five other men get fired up about God, and with the power He can have in our lives, that we just give it to Him.
Well, and and I know, yeah.
So, and I know you're coming. And we've had other men come back. They're like, "Hey, I need a, I need a second helping. I need a, I need a repeat camp." And I'm like, "Come on, come on, do it." We've had a number of men do that. It's going to be great to have them, and have you back with us for that.
I'm so busy. Is is the problem? I'm so busy with my job, and I'm so busy with the church. I told my wife, I don't have any alone time with God by myself. Right, and I know Man Camp can give me that.
And I told her, I said, "Do you care? Do you mind if I go back and be gone for a week?" She said, "Baby, if you need to go, go." Well, I just want some alone time. I want to go and I want to tell God thank you for what He's done, and I want to support these men going from our church. Because I've told them, you're only going to get out of it what you put into it. If you go down there and say you're not going to give your whole self, you're not going to get nothing out of it.
But if you trust Him, Lord, how mercy! Your family will be different. Your children will be different. Your job will be different. Your life will be different.
It's a it's an all in kind of decision, isn't it, Ray? And yes, sir, it is. Ray, do you have do you have a is there a website for the church, or how how can people find out? We have a Facebook page. We do have a Facebook page, and I'll be honest with you, we don't take up an offering in our church.
We do we support different events and and fundraisers for people. We do different outreaches. We've had a Blackman Road project, which is in Rock Hill, where we went in and put a new roof on a lady's house and cut in a driveway and hauled off trash. We hauled off—I think it was eleven tons of trash, three vehicles, trailers. I mean, put in twenty-seven tons of stone gravel, a culvert.
Wow! So many things our church did, and people donated the stuff. People donated their time. We go there every Christmas and Thanksgiving and Easter, and we give out food and that's all we do. Things for the homeless and people just get the stuff.
We put it together and we go out and we put it. And sometimes we do it on Sunday. Yeah, make it make it happen.
So what's what's the face page Facebook page? Because I've got a Facebook page is the two four two biker church. Two four two biker church, and yes, sir. And so I I hope you are. Impacted by by Ray's story today, and and something was said that would inspire you, motivates you, and just draw closer to the Lord.
If you're ever in the Rock Hill area, go down to Biker Church, the Biker Church two four two. And and until next time, I want to challenge each of you. Thank you, Ray, for being a part of the show today. Yes, sir. Challenge each you to draw closer to God.
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