Well 2015 is over. Hello new year hello new opportunities.
I went out yesterday for a short and very cold ride and spent some time thinking about my vision for ASR in 2016. Well this may not seem like any big brainstorm but this is truly one area that both ASR and me as an individual need to focus on for 2016. It is simply. Connect. Connect with other ASR members. This will help us in so many ways.
Over Thanksgiving my wife and I traveled to Kansas City to visit family. We use this opportunity to visit the Mo/Kan Chapter of ASR and also had members of the Cameron Missouri Chapter join us. We had a wonderful time of worship, food and fellowship.
In December my wife and I traveled to the Louisville Kentucky area. You guessed it. We took this opportunity to meet with the Northern Kentucky Chapter. We attended their Christmas party and then went on and had fellowship with a few members by going shopping at the local Cycle Gear Store and going to see Christmas lights.
Where am I going with all this? There are many members of ASR who are totally independent and live a distance from a chapter. The point I’m trying to get across is we all travel. Simple travel in our daily or business life gives us the opportunity to connect with other ASR members and chapters. It doesn’t have to be a scheduled event or even a church service. It can be a simple lunch or cup of coffee with a member. This is both how we can plug in with ASR members that we know and do not know. This can be a way for us to meet new Friends as well as old.
If we could catch this vision think of all the new members that we could meet in 2016. Think of all the members that live to far away from a chapter or events to get involved in that would would now have connections with other members. How about old members that are no longer involved in ASR.
I already know what some of you are going to say. I don’t travel. Simple solution. Once a month pick up the phone and call someone that you don’t know from ASR and introduce yourself. After all we are family so how about in 2016 we get to know our family. Let’s catch the vision. Let’s Connect in 2016.
Rev. Jim Curley
National Vice President
Azusa Street Riders
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Great vision bro Curley I also have this vision for Ohio in 2016 and the focus for me this year is to get all Ohio members to meet each and everyone here in our state in some point be it at an event church service or just a lunch ride and Meet & Greet. We have independent members here and also old members that I want to re connect with. Going to be a great busy year in ASR.
Time for members to get out of their comfort zone and start traveling to fellowship with other members.
Well Said, my friend!!!!! Our Chapter Goal is to increase our membership in 2016 and to do that, we, as a chapter need to visit some different communities. We plan to contact numerous Pastors to determine if they have any “Bikers” within their congregations. With this “prospects” list, we’ll “meet, greet & eat” with ’em. Bro Theodore recapped things very well. It bears repeating,,,, “Time for members to get out of their comfort zone and start traveling to fellowship with other members.”
Dave McLeod
President
“Atlantic Canada” Chapter
Excellent thoughts!
I enjoyed reading the comments on connecting with other ASR members. How do I obtain info on members in Calofornia?