Page 2 of True Stories of the Members of the
Seed Of Abraham Motorcycle Club
Updated 4/9/99, lots more to come!
This is the testimony of Dick Mason, our President, and was printed in the Christian Spirit in '93, taken from
a taped interview, many facts and details have been omitted to protect family members feelings.

Long, rocky, road leads
to a ministry for Christ

    I said in the house of correction, this was probably back in '83, "If I didn't have a wife and kids, I'd get a bike and ride around the country and tell people about God." That was a long time ago. Today it has come to pass. That's my story.
     I think it was Tommy H., laid hands on me and told me I'd be used at motorcycle events. I had the scoot and I knew the temptation that went with it. It could be good or bad for me. And if it was bad it'd be real bad.
    So when that guy came in with Steve S. and said that whatever I was running from that I would turn around and go towards it, (An unexpected visitor prophesies at the Church), and pointed to me and says, I don't know who you are, but you had a zeal for God, but God's going to replace it with an even greater zeal, I was stunned. He said whatever I was running from I was going to turn around and go towards, and that I would ride right through the gates of hell and towards my enemies with a smile on my face. I mean, this really blew me away.
                                                               Rebellious kid
    I got baptized in the Assemblies of God. That was a lot of years ago. I've walked on both sides of the street since then, the good and the bad. Up until I was sixteen or so I attended Church on a regular basis. Then my mother and father split up and I got a little on the rebellious side and went off my own way, I guess. I had some real close friends that I was real tight with and to hell with everyone else.
    That was my attitude, I hated everyone else, I hated myself. I had an FTW attitude. I hated authority, I hated everything.
    I got married.... to a woman who was slightly pregnant. I proceeded to become a provider, not the greatest one in the world, and a husband.... a real poor one. A lot of drinking in the home. It was a religious war zone. She was very Catholic and I was very un-Catholic, which we fought a lot about, and as a result neither one of us went to Church. It went on for seven years, it got progressively worse, I fooled around on my wife, got into drugs. There was some days I didn't use, but on the whole, I used every day in one shape or form. She asked me to leave - I was heart-broken.
    That was back in 1972. So I left, and I immediately called this 18-year-old I'd met at an all-night party. So this other girl, (it's all I ever seem to end up being with) was Catholic too - but she got saved. We were at my mother's and Billy Graham came on TV and she didn't want to watch it but I did, so we watched it, and she got saved. My uncle, who's a Methodist Minister, married us. And we started reading the Bible.
                                                       His salvation confirmed
    One Sunday, coincidentally, going to get a Sunday newspaper, I took a left up this little dinky side-street, I mean, it was really stupid to go this way, and just coincidentally, the organist in the Church from the Assemblies of God where I was baptized, just happened to be crossing the street at that time. I recognized this guy right off, and spoke to him. He was real happy to see me and invited me to Church. And I was, thinking like, you know, I don't really want to go, but I promised him I would go sometime. Then I thought about it, and the Holy Spirit's saying "Go to Church, go to Church." So I went to Church and the minister asked me right up front if I was saved and I said yeah, I got saved as a kid. That Sunday or the following Sunday he gave an altar call, which he gave, about three or four times. And finally some people people went forward. But that wasn't good enough for him, he just kept going. And he says, "well, there's people probably here that need to rededicate their lives to Jesus, who haven't been walking with Him...." And there's this little prompting voice, you know, "Go forward." And I was thinking "No, I don't want to do this, man." Suddenly I got up, and I went forward, and this other woman went forward, too, and she rededicated her life to Christ at the same time.  
    I never particularly liked Church that much, but I remembered as a kid I liked Sunday school, I like learning.
                                                     Wonderful moment of preaching
    I wasn't into all the fluff and all the other stuff, I wanted the meat, the main course. So I went the next Sunday to Sunday school. And the same woman who went forward was inside the front door and she greeted me. And I told her I was here for Sunday school. And she says, "We don't have an adult Sunday school." So I was about out the door and she grabs me by the arm, and she says "Come with me. I'm going to introduce you to your Sunday school class." I'm thinkin' "No way!" Now this woman wasn't more than five feet tall and she's dragging me. I'm saying "NO, no, no".... but I'm going with her. So we go in, there's a bunch of kids, sixth-graders, a little on the unruly side, and she says "Here's your book. You'll do fine." Bingo. I'm a Sunday school teacher.
       So I read the lessons every week. A few times I didn’t do too bad with the class. The next year, I ended up with fourth and fifth-graders. I spent a lot of time reading my lessons. I started reading my Bible a lot, too. One Sunday one of the kids asked me about the end of the world or whatever. So I laid the whole thing out, in plain English. I had the kids in tears, talking about chopping people’s heads off, the whole nine yards. I kept saying, Hear me out, hear me out, don’t get upset." I laid the whole scenario out, then talked about how Jesus was gonna come back with all the believers, all the angels, and the Antichrist, who’s been out cutting Christians’ heads off and all the armies of the world, the Jews are gonna blast ’em and destroy them all, and about the millennial kingdom, and these kids were jumping up and down and cheering, they were really into the whole thing.
   Then I said to them all,
   "Would any of you like to receive Jesus'?" They all said yes. So I says, "O.K. Think about everything I had to say, and we’ll discuss this further next Sunday." I gave them the gospel, spelled the whole thing out and they all wanted it, they all wanted to be born again. So I went to the minister and I told him the whole scenario, and I told him, "I want you to come into my class next Sunday." He was real pleased. So he came in the next Sunday, did all the scripture verses in the plan of salvation, and he asked them again, "Would anyone like to receive Jesus?" And they said yes. So they all accepted Christ. Talk about a high point in my life!
     Around this time, my wife’s sister was having problems at home and ended up moving in with us. She started coming to Sunday night Bible study with us. (This did not go too well with the Catholic family). Then we started witnessing to one of her brothers, and he started coming to church with us. Man, was I under some serious heat from the family! I mean, open attacks.
      We used to get into battles over the Word. My wife’s sister started going to Immanuel Baptist in Chelmsford, MA. My wife and I hadn’t settled in a church yet, and her sister kept asking us to come to Immanuel, so we started attending there and ended up becoming members.
                                                                Backslides
        My wife got me involved in prison ministry. I'd been doing Sunday school and Christian Service Brigade, a Christian alternative to the Boy Scouts. Things went pretty well, and I really got into the prison ministry, really enjoyed that.
      My wife and I ended up splitting up. We had bought her parents house in Billerica, it was a life dream that I thought I could never achieve, and realistically I probably never could have, I was in way over my head. A pastor’s wife told me at the time, "Seek ye first the kingdom of God, and all these things will be added unto you". I couldn’t understand, I felt like Job. My wife and kids were taken away and God replaced them. My first marriage and divorce I could understand, but this was off the wall. I mean, we were both believers, He had blessed us mightily. I mean, if I needed a two-by-four I’d be riding down the road and there’d be a brand new one laying there on the side of the road. Everything I needed, I got. It was like I was on God’s welfare program, if I couldn’t afford to buy it, I got it, no matter what it was. And then I lost all this.
        I was still involved with the jail, but I slowly started to slip away. I was real depressed about it, I lived at work for almost three weeks, I just degenerated. A couple of women I worked with asked me to go out and play one night, they felt real bad for me. One night in the office I brought a quart of whiskey, brought the night foreman in, did a few joints and I was off and running. My wife called the house of correction, caused a lot of problems and I was cut off, wasn’t allowed to minister up there. My father had a heart attack around then. The depression just got deeper and deeper, and the alcohol use increased. It was all downhill till I had my last drink, seven years ago, December 26, 1985.
      The day I had my last drink, I came home at night to my mother’s and I was in a black-out, I remember getting down on my knees, it had been a long time since I’d gotten down on my knees, and I lifted up my hands to heaven, and I cried, "God, help me, I can’t stop. I’m out of control. Man, you’ve gotta do something about it RIGHT NOW, I can’t live this way another day." And He answered that prayer first thing the next morning.
        The personnel manager at work come down on me so bad... he sent me home, he wanted to send me to a 60 day in-house program. I refused to go, but I ended up going to A.A. It changed the way I thought about a lot of things.
        After being in A.A. for awhile, God started speaking to my heart spiritually. I was living with a woman I’d met in the program. Some good came out of it, I realized through that relationship I really wasn’t such a bad person after all. For a long time I thought I was lower than cow’s dung, one of the lowest people on the face of the earth. She pointed out a lot of things to me about myself, that everything I’d been through wasn’t all my fault. I grew up in a critical home, and I’m a very critical person today myself, or I can be. I’ve lived with criticism all my life, that’s a spirit in itself, I think. Her and I did break up after being together for three years.

                                                               A new ministry to go with a new start
      One day riding down Broadway in Lowell I spotted a Harley at the house of some people that I knew. The guy was there to straighten out something to do with the title. So we talked and he said he had a church and invited me to come. I was kind of interested in that, I mean, a guy who’s a minister and rides a motorcycle, that really fascinated me. So I started going. Soon after meeting I started going to his church on a regular basis (Jesus Is The Answer Family Ministry, Moore St Lowell- Sun 10am Wed 7:30 pm).
        Backing up a little - through the ministry we met some other bikers and with God’s leading we started a motorcycle club (Seed of Abraham). We dedicated and gave the club to Jesus. Several people encouraged me in this (Mark, Lori and Russ). Since then we’ve grown and God has blessed us richly. I would like to share more at another time.
        Russ has let me lead some Bible studies and recently while he was away at a conference, allowed me to preach at a regular church service. It was very rewarding and he wants me to preach again. In the last few years God has blessed me with a new family (in the Lord), brothers and sisters who I love very much! Please pray for Seed of Abraham and that many will find Jesus through this Ministry. AMEN.

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