What do motorcycles have to do with pastors in Costa Rica and retirees mentoring boys in the United States?

A motorcycle club at College Church of the Nazarene in U.S. is bringing these disparate groups together in an unexpected way.

It started when Ellen Steward, the recent pastor to families at College Church of the Nazarene University Avenue in Bourbonnais, Illinois, believed it was important to try to connect kids with people of different generations through apprenticeship-style experiences.

She asked Floyd Hoffman, a retired layperson at the church, if he would be interested in this kind of ministry. Specifically, she needed a man to work with third- through sixth-grade boys by doing hands-on activities. Floyd enjoys taking apart, building, and working with motorcycles, so he and Ellen brainstormed on how they could minister to kids through this hobby.

“I told her if she could get a room [at the church to work in], I could get a motorcycle,” Hoffman said.

For the rest of the story, see Engage magazine.