Mark and Jamie Small are Illinois State Coordinators. They are passionate about looking for new opportunities to reach the motorcycling community. They realize it’ s not a quick process and will take time and a piece of their lives. This is one of the many ways they have gotten involved and touched lives for Jesus. I hope you see that when we get involved, it is more than just working the event; you have a chance to make a lifelong impact in someone’ s life. Is God showing you a new area to get involved in? If He is, take that chance and reach out; you never know where God will take it.

Jay and Jane Wilber oversee the North Central Region as National Evangelist.

ICE RACING we enter the 50th year in

However, other things happened in the 1970s after the war. The culture was changing, and people were expanding their“ boundaries,” which was also true in the motorcycling world. Around the same time, God was pulling Herb, a group of what I would call bored Flat Track racers got together up in Michigan and took to the ice. That race started more races; the first ever indoor motorcycle Ice Race was in Huntsville, Alabama, in 1975. But in 1976, at Kent State University Ice Rink, the birth of“ World Championship Ice Racing” was born through the Densford family.

We first met up with the Densford family in the early 2000s when one of their indoor events was nearby. It was just about being a spectator, supporting the riders, and enjoying the show. We started a lifelong relationship with“ World Championship Ice Racing” at that event, but it didn ' t happen right out of the gate. It took time and lots of relationship-building for that to happen.

The first year I called Brent Densford to ask about helping at the Ice Races in Bloomington, Illinois, well, let ' s just say it was not our finest hour in the relationship … yet. Brent was a bit skeptical of a bunch of“ Christian Motorcyclists” offering free help of any kind at their event, so the first year, we just worked the arena with the ministry booth. It wasn ' t until the second year of us talking, and then some scheduling conflicts that kept the flaggers and staff that help at the gates from being there, that got CMA ' s foot in the door of being a part of the races. For the next several years, we had a great“ working” relationship with the Ice Racing family, but in 2016, that all changed.

2016 was a year of incredible change in the history of the World Championship in ice racing. The Densford family felt they had taken this as far as they could; their passions were waning, and it was time to close the doors. However, one of the ice racers and his wife, Ken( aka“ the Stuntman”) and Kristi Remer, purchased World Championship Ice Racing and Motorsports Entertainment Property ICE. I must tell you that