Alphabetical listing, by last name:

• Brock, Carmen

• Brock, Walt

• Burgess, Thomas

• Burt, James

• Chase, Rhonda

• Christian, Steve

• Christian, Tricia

• Crawford, Mary

• Crawford, Rodger

• Dillow, Dave

• Ike, Chuck

• Kadulski, Patty

• Kadulski, Scott

• Ludwig, Al

• Meade, Dave

• Meade, Dee

• Moore, Sue

• Moore, Terry

• Rulapaugh, Dickie

• Smith, Mark

• Smith, Pam

• Spragg, Mark

• Torres, Tammy

• Torres, Victor

Carmen Brock

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Walt Brock

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Thomas Burgess

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James Burt

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Rhonda Chase

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Steve Christian

President

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I met Terry Moore upon getting sober in March of 1994.  He would occasionally invite me over to the house for bible study if and when I was interested or ready.  Never once pressuring me and that spoke volumes. Unbeknownst to me God used Terry to plant a seed that took 7 years or so to take root.  I began going to bible study and felt at home with a void in my life starting to be filled (with God).  As a result, I became water baptized by Pastors Vic & Calvin May 30, 2003.

In January of 2004 I received my H.S.M.M. patch & Treasurer appointment and have not looked back since.  I cannot even imagine where I would be today without Barry & Fran, Sue & Terry, Victor, Pastor Calvin & Becky and the rest of the brothers and sisters in the ministry and Mt. Zion Church and especially my wife Tricia and our daughter Cora.  God has truly worked miracles and blessings above and beyond in my life and will do the same in yours if you seek His face!  (James4:8)

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Tricia Christian

Treasurer

I was saved in 2004 – a shocker to everyone I knew, especially me! It was in April of that year that it started: One day God just called me – it happened in an instant- and the huge wall I had up against anything spiritual was instantly gone. Steve, my boyfriend at the time, became my savior because he introduced me to his Bible study and the people in the Heaven’s Saints and by Thanksgiving of that year I was baptized and born again.

The blessings in my life since that time have been overwhelming, nothing short of amazing – God has shown me he can do miraculous things. Steve is now my awesome husband and father to our daughter Cora….I didn’t think life could really be this way, full of love and kindness – The Lord has been so good to me! I believe in this ministry and its goals -what drew me to the Heaven’s Saints was the love; love for the Lord, love for each other, and love for people they didn’t even know; their desire to save the lost. This is still true today and I am thankful to be a part of the Heaven’s Saints ministry.

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Mary Crawford

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Rodger Crawford

Vice President & Road Captain

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Dave Dillow

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Chuck Ike

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Patty Kadulski

I remember many occasions we would climb out windows, tables being flipped and my dad passed out on the floor.  I would look at him wondering who is this man.  I knew my father loved us by the many hugs, kisses and many little things he did for us.  What I couldn’t understand is how he could love us and yet hurt us at the same time.  I often wondered how my mother could stay.  My mother was faithful in taking me and my sister to church every week.  We constantly were praying for my dad.  When I was about 11 my father went into rehab and received God as his savior.

In high school I found my self drinking and following my dad’s footsteps.  However, I had a father who loved me enough to look me in the eye and say I love you and I don’t want the same life for you.  I feared my father, but was not afraid of him.  His stern voice and big stature was enough to scare anyone.  However behind that is a big teddy bear.  No matter what I did he would scold me yet in a gentle way being sure not to scare me away.  I knew that I was making the wrong choices and my daddy would just confirm it my catching me.

If I hadn’t of grown up with an alcoholic father and seen how it destroys lives it would have been easier to become one.  Today I have a wonderful husband and 3 boys.  We all attend church and are involved with the Heaven's Saints.  I could not ask for more.  God is faithful.  Having parents that support and pray for you is wonderful.  I now pray for my children every day and I thank God for the life that we have.  Our family is really close today; my sister is my best friend, my father is my hero, and my mother is a woman I admire and stand in awe of.   My husband, kids and I are growing closer to God every day.  I thank God for the life that I had because I can honestly say I believe in prayer and all things are possible through Jesus Christ.

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Scott Kadulski

Webmaster

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I met my wife and her family when I was twelve years old.  We had both just moved into a new subdivision, and were new to the area.  We dated for two weeks in the seventh grade.  Boyfriend and girlfriend.  Over time, we became best friends.  It wasn't until I left home for college, however, that we began a serious relationship.  Five years later, after experiencing the responsibility of adulthood, we were married.

At that time, we attended church on Sundays.  I even signed up to take the Understanding God class on Sunday nights.  I took the class for about five weeks before I drifted away from the class first, and then the church altogether.  My mother-in-law would call us early on Sunday mornings to make sure we would get up for church. 

Once we started a family, I had the overwhelming feeling to make sure that my boys were brought up to know God.  During this time, we started attending a weekly bible study, and began an intimate relationship with the Lord.  I have since been Baptized with the Holy Spirit, joined the Heaven's Saints Motorcycle Ministry, and I have been blessed!

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Allen Ludwig

I came to the Lord in 1999.

He is my rock. 

He helps me through everything.

I stopped drinking and drugging 2000.

God has placed some awesome friends in my life.

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Dave Meade

Prison Ministry

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I was born in West Virginia to a very dysfunctional family.  My father was a drunk, and would beat us and my mother.  I knew the Lord as a small child, but as time would have it we moved to the city of Flint, Michigan.  NOW being a Christian in a small town, where everyone knows you is a piece of cake.  Then you go to a big industrial city, and you find out you are an outcast because you want to believe in Jesus.  I would get beat up on and asked to turn the other cheek.  This humiliation made me very angry with God.

One night, I went home and told God I did not want any part of being a Christian.  For the next 30 years I lived a very sinful life.  At the age of 19, I had shot a man, robbed people, and ended up in prison.  I was not walking with God, but I prayed every night for God to help me get out of that place, and He did.  Once out, I forgot all that and went right back to sinning.  Finally, I was so bad, I ended up in an abuse care center to get help.  Once again, God was there and helped me stay sober.  I also had a lot of help from my A.A. friends.  I never drank again, but I still had the behavior of my addiction. 

Finally, I met Dee, my present wife of 19 years, and she helped me get back in church.  Since then, God has worked many miracles in my life, and used me in many ministries.  I am now riding with the Heaven's Saints M/M and doing a prison ministry.  God will never leave you nor forsake you.

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Dee Meade

I was born in Clarkston, Michigan in 1951.  I started going to church with my grandparents when I was about 8 years old.  My family started going to church a few years later.  We all started going to First Open Bible Church in Pontiac.  My uncle was a youth pastor there, and when he ventured out on his own, my family went with him.  There I was filled with the Holy Ghost at 11 years old.  WOW! What an experience that was!  Once you receive it, you will never forget it. 

I was in my mid-forties and married to Dave when we were at a church service one Sunday, and an evangelist had a prayer line so I went.  I was told that I had some "old baggage" I had been carrying around with me since I was a child, and that the Lord wanted to take that heavy load.  She asked if I knew what it was.  I said yes, and the minister asked me to counsel with my pastor.  Even though I had a burden lifted that day, I knew I had to talk to my pastor soon.  I asked the Lord for courage, and made an appointment with him (it took me three weeks).  His wife came with him for support for me.  I told him what the evangelist had said, so the pastor and his wife started the process of helping me take back what the devil had taken from me.

I had been molested when I was a child, and even though this person asked for forgiveness for that terrible deed that was done, I had told no one about it because I was afraid.  I understand I needed to speak it out of my life so the enemy couldn't use it against me any more.  I still had to tell Dave about it, and that was not easy.  I was even afraid to be alone in my own house when I would pray.  The pastor said that was the enemy, because I was alone with a man "figure" and trying to bring up my childhood again.  I got deliverance on that issue also.  God is so good!!!  I guess the hardest part of it was having to tell someone about it, and hearing the words come out of my mouth (another trick of the enemy).  He doesn't want you to confess anything from your mouth that will free you, with much strength from God, I am free at last.

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Sue Moore

Women's Ministry

I prayed for my husband Terry for 15 years before he accepted Christ.  During those 15 years I was always asking God to change Terry.  His life in drugs and alcohol were destroying our marriage. 

Today I speak to many women's ministries including our National Rally of the Heaven's Saints.  The 15 years I spent living with an unsaved husband were years God used for my making! 

You see, it was me that God was really changing during those difficult years.  I learned commitment, obedience, the ability to overcome, and the ability as a child of God to forgive.  I am so grateful for this ministry of the Heaven's Saints.  God used Barry Mayson to minister to my husband, who is the President of the Michigan chapter today.  Prayer does change things!  My life today is a testimony to that.

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Terry Moore

International Vice President and Michigan State Rep.

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I started getting high at an early age.  I was into the drugs and alcohol at age 15.  At first it was kind of limited, but as time went by my life spun totally out of control.  I found myself in and out of jails.  I couldn't keep a car on the road, let alone a motorcycle.  I partied with various motorcycle clubs and just started hanging with the wrong people.  I got to a point where I didn't really care about my family or myself.  At that time I didn't want to hear anything about Jesus! 

Fifteen years later I was standing at the kitchen sink looking out a window.  When I saw my reflection, I asked myself “Is this the way I want to live the rest of my life?”  My wife and kids left me for the last time.  I put myself into detox, thinking they would keep me for three days.  On the fourth day, I broke down and prayed the most unselfish prayer I had ever prayed.  I could not change the pain and sorrow I had caused my family.  I asked God to bless them with a man in their life that would give them a better future than I was able to give them.  With all the turmoil going on I had never experienced the peace I felt that moment.  It was as if God said “Let go, Terry, and I will take care of it!”

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Dickie Rulapaugh

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Mark Smith

I was born in the late 1950's to a good Catholic family, and the middle child of 5 siblings.  I went to Catholic schools until 8th grade.  I think that being  raised in a Catholic home gave me a foundation of belief that Jesus is God, but into my 20's I felt a stirring that there should be more to it than that.  At my workplace, there were a few Godly men that would always have something to say about the Lord and what the bible actually says about Him and the kingdom of God.  I thank God for these men, and their patience. It took ten years of ministering to me and answering my questions before I finally gave my life to Christ Jesus.  I have been saved since August of 1990.  The peace and understanding through His word have been a life saver to say the least.  To this day, I have been in a full gospel church, and learning of the Grace and power of Jesus Christ.

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Pam Smith

Secretary

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Mark Spragg

At the age of five, I was baptized.  At the age of six, I met my dad.  At the age of seven, I drank my first beer.  At the age of eight, I was introduced to pornography.  At the age of nine, I smoked my first joint, and painted my first car.

For the next several years, I continued my downward spiral straight to hell and suffered many brutal beatings.

Here I am, 29 years later born again, knowing my true father (Jesus Christ), and a proud member of the Heaven's Saints.  God is truly merciful and forgiving.  Thank you Jesus!

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Tammy Torres

My name is Tammy Torres and I would like to share my testimony with you.  In one word, it is FAITHFUL.  Our Lord Jesus Christ is FAITHFUL.  The word states is Hebrews 13:5 that the Lord said He would never leave me nor forsake me.  As a child I grew up in a home with an alcoholic father.  I loved my dad but hated the choices he made with his life.  My mother came to know the Lord when my sister and I were young.  I am thankful to the Lord for giving me the body of Christ.  When my dad would not come home nights or when he did and was drunk, I had a place to turn to in the arms of my heavenly father, as a child in tears crying out the Lord in her bedroom asking Jesus to help her Daddy.  The altar was another place where I shared my hearts cry to the Lord.  I am grateful for my mother who taught me to seek God.  I am thankful for the women who would hold me at that altar and pray and agree with me.

With many years of seeking God and believing that my dad would have a changed heart, it happened.  When I was about 13 or 14 years old, my dad had a choice:  to live for himself and his fleshly desires or to live for Jesus and have Jesus RESTORE a broken family.  He chose Jesus!  And he chose my mom and me and my sister and I love him even more than words can say.  When I was 19, I married a young man I met in the youth group at church.  He loved the Lord as I and we had begun to share many dreams and goals for our lives.  But, things do not always happen as we plan.  After a year of marriage, we decided to start our family; only things did not go our way.  Within 2 years I had 3 miscarriages.  I remember after having miscarried a little boy at 4 months being in my living room crying to the Lord, (after being angry and confused and realizing that He is for me not against me), telling the Lord that my life is not my own and that if children was not in the plan he had for me it was okay.  Maybe my husband and I would be in mission field off in foreign lands is what I thought.  But, God is Faithful!  After many people praying, God heard and answered our prayers.  Victoria Hope was born.  I did have 2 more miscarriages after her but she was blessed 3 years later with a sister Emilia Faith and another year later with another sister Mikayla Grace.  Wow, how faithful is that.  Doctor s never had an answer or a cure but Jesus did. There were times during my pregnancies I just spoke the word over myself.  There is life in the Word!

Today my dad is the President of the Heaven’s Saints Michigan chapter and my husband servers as Chaplin.  As for my praying mom, I love seeing her share the Lord with others in the women’s functions we do together.   She is still a prayer warrior. My sister and I have 6 kids between us and it is awesome serving Jesus together.  The Heaven’s Saints Ministry has given us a place to love, to give and do for the Lord.  Family is what our Ministry is… truly a part of the body of Christ.  We may not know or understand why we go through things but God does.  I do know all things that have occurred in my life God has used for my making.  I thank the Lord that my family can share with others how awesome our God is.  Without things to overcome how can we share with others his grace and mercy?  I know the Lord is in the business of RESTORATION and as a family the Lord has placed us in being a part of the Heaven Saints Ministry and the family of God.  I thank Jesus for his FAITHFULNESS. 

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Victor Torres

Chaplain

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It sure is an amazing life to live as a Christian.  I’ve heard people say, "Oh that’s a boring life" or something like, "I hate living by rules".  I have never had more excitement or joy in my life than living for a God that cares for me and provides like He does.  It’s true it certainly does rain on the just and the unjust but lets just say I’d rather have God to lean on and to have hope in than just myself or someone else.  My mother and father loved their children as best they knew.  I have one older sister two younger brothers.  My mother and father loved each other in the beginning, but as my father became more and more abusive (physically) their relationship quickly fell apart.  As the drinking continued the abuse would get worse.  I can remember getting to the point that I didn’t want anymore birthdays because it became an excuse to drink and ultimately lead to an argument with my mother which in turn lead to her being beaten.  My sister and I took the brunt of all that was happening because of what we saw and heard.  We would try to keep our younger brothers from seeing or hearing because we didn’t want them to get as scared as we were.  Thank God they don’t remember the half of it.  I would become so fearful that I would burrow myself in my closet as deep as I could and hum as loud as I could just so I wouldn’t hear my mother screaming. 

Some say that a child that comes from an abusive home or is subject to seeing it as apart of their lives becomes in time an abuser.  Well I was just the opposite.  I could never understand how someone could beat and intimidate with fear someone who was much more vulnerable than they were so much to the point that from when I was young I could not fight anyone that was smaller than me or that would be intimidated by me.  To this day I have always been for the underdog.  My testimony has much to do with my mother, to see her at one point sitting in a chair in the middle of the living room with tears running down her face because of my father taking his belt and hitting her with it across her bare legs and arms countless times burned images in my mind that will stay with me the rest of my life.  My sister and I were left with many emotional scars, my mother with both physical and emotional.  Please don’t get me wrong, we loved our dad greatly.  There were those good times and he provided as best he could and we always new that our father loved us but the way he was raised certainly overflowed into our lives.  He was abused himself and rejected by his mother.  It can be a horrible experience when something like abuse can pass from generation to generation.  Mother was on the verge of a nervous break down; with my sister constantly running away, the drinking and abuse, it finally took its toll.  The depression was so deep, the empty look about her, I worried for her, what she might do. 

In the mist of all the turmoil God was positioning His people to reach out and give hope to the hopeless.  My mother was invited to church one day and as desperate as she was she made an appointment with Pastor Loren.  After seeing the kind of shape she was in, the Lord spoke to Pastor Loren that she needed to be baptized ASAP.  Once he shared with her the purpose and importance of water baptism she reluctantly agreed.  You see, we were Catholic and we were already baptized as children and were apart of the only true church so we thought.  But my mother had already been to several priests and the last one said to her there is not much else we can do.  I am in no way a Catholic basher, but I’ve come to the understanding that there is more TRUTH out there than some denominations teach.  My mother came home that day literally a new person.  I said to her, mom there is something really different about you, you look different, you look happy.  After a while, she began to take me with her, and I gave my heart to the Lord at age fifteen.  I’ve never turned back.  The Lord moved greatly through our family.  I’m not saying this happened overnight, there was still opposition and turmoil, but now we had hope.  God is still doing great things in my family’s life today.   Through His word, going to church, and having Christian friends He has taught us to live an abundant life.  After a year of giving my heart to the Lord my youth Pastor Joe Molosic introduced me to a beautiful young lady by the name of Tammy of whom is now my wife of sixteen wonderful years.  And I certainly can not forget the three blessings that the Lord has given us Victoria Hope, Emilia Faith and Mikayla Grace.  I wouldn’t change my life for the world.  Thank you Jesus.

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