Motorcyclist Encourages Woman to Give Up Suicide

Ministry has spread throughout the country and involved more and more people in its social and spiritual activities [Photo Courtesy of the South American Division]

South American Division

Motorcyclist Encourages Woman to Give Up Suicide

Adventist Motorcycle Ministry carries out evangelistic actions and has already transformed the lives of dozens of people

Brazil | Charlise Alves

Wherever they go, they attract attention. First, because of the roar of the engines, but the Adventist Motorcycle Ministry (AMM-Brasil) is really marked by transforming people's lives through evangelistic actions. The group is supported by the Federation of Adventist Entrepreneurs (FE) and has approximately 3,000 members spread across Brazil.

Over nine years of history, the ministry that travels the roads on two wheels has already taken more than 300 people to baptism through book delivery, life and health fairs, and events in squares and motorcycle dealerships.

José Juvenal Vieira Jr, national president of AMM, says its members attend the events of other motorcycle clubs and vice versa. “We invited them to our meetings and challenged them to go a weekend without smoking and drinking,” he details. This is the case of Almir Bergamini, who was baptized in the central Adventist church in Indaiatuba, in the interior of São Paulo, two months ago. Now, he is a member of AMM, but before that, he presided over other motorcycle clubs.

Impact on the Streets

The AMM members were in Tatuí, also in the State of São Paulo, where Casa Publishadora Brasileira (CPB), a publishing house of the Seventh-day Adventist Church, is located. They were in the city on April 3–4 for the launch of Impacto Esperança 2022, an initiative that engages Adventists from eight South American countries to take to the streets to distribute free magazines and books with messages of comfort to the community.

This year, the title delivered was The Last Invitation by Clifford Goldstein. As in previous years, the group received personalized copies with an illustration of a motorcycle on the cover to give to other motorcyclists. “We are passing like a wing in the streets and honking the horn to deliver the book to the people,” Vieira shares.

Suicide Withdrawal

The motorcyclists went to Iperó, a city neighboring Tatuí, to carry out Impacto Esperança. At the time, one of the members saw a woman crying on the street, offered to help, and discovered she was about to take her own life.

Members talk to woman and offered her words of encouragement and hope [Photo Courtesy of the South American Division]
Members talk to woman and offered her words of encouragement and hope [Photo Courtesy of the South American Division]

The elderly caregiver promptly felt she should open her heart and confided, “I have no hope of living any longer.” According to her, the reason for her despair was her teenage son's health problems and family quarrels.

The ministry members were able to soothe her with words of comfort and prayer. On the occasion, Pastor Adriel Sales, the national director of Projeto Resgate of AMM, quoted Psalm 119 and told her categorically, “You belong to Jesus.” 

According to Vieira, “The woman decided that she would not kill herself anymore.” Now, she has the support of the local Adventist church to follow up on her situation and start Bible studies.

This article was originally published on the South American Division’s news site