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let there be one salva on. Now, we're talking about a Wednesday night, with usually about 10 or 12 people and all blood-bought saints. They already know God. That's why they're there on Wednesday nights. But I told the Lord, 'If there's one salva on Lord, when I get back to the States, I will start preaching in the churches.' Then I started thinking of all the people who were (going to be) there, and they were all already saved. So I said again: 'Lord, let there be one re-dedica on.' Salva on is giving your life to the Lord the first me; re-dedica on is somebody that has given their life to the Lord, but they realize they need to re-dedicate it. There were 21 people in that sanctuary, and there were 15 re-dedica ons and four salva ons. I'll remember those numbers the rest of my life. I cried like a baby. When I hit the ground here in 2006, I within three or four months I was an associate pastor. I was giving three messages a week, and just knew I was doing what the Lord wanted me to do." Van Horn opened Highway 2 Heaven Biker Church in June 2010, and today, also oversees a number of local community outreach programs. Former home to a Lutheran church, Van Horn considers his ministry to be inter- denomina onal, meaning it is designed to accommodate a variety of Chris an belief systems. "Inter-denomina onal is how we started out. It's kind of hard to say that anymore, because we did go ahead and put a membership book in wri ng. Inter-denomina onal means you cater to any and all denomina ons – if you're a Lutheran and you want to be sprinkled instead of dunked, I'll sprinkle you. Non-denomina onal takes the things they like and don't like, put those things in a membership book, and says: 'This is the way we believe.' So in all reality, a non-denomina onal church becomes some type of denomina on. It may not have a name to it, but if you say bap sm by immersion only, you became some type of denomina on. I don't want somebody coming in here who's grown up all their life Lutheran, and then find out I won't bap ze them the way they want to be bap zed. I would be standing in the way of someone becoming more in mate with Jesus, and I'm not going to do that." Van Horn says his biker church is similar in some ways to the increasingly popular cowboy churches that are becoming more common these days. Both are come-as-you- are, non-preten ous places that welcome all comers with open arms. "The only difference between cowboy churches and biker churches is they feed their horses hay, and we feed ours 93 octane. Really, that's about the only difference," said the father of one son, stepfather of three boys and grandfather of three more. "The biker community is a bunch of really ght-knit folks. I wish Chris ans – all the different denomina ons – could be as ght as bikers are. We have a heart for the lost – the wounded spiritual soldiers on the ba lefield. We try to accept people as they are. We're going to preach the truth, but we're not going to judge you. If you're living in sin, you're going to be convicted by the Holy Spirit (recognize your sin and seek redemp on). But you're not going to be condemned." 18 WheelsOfGrace.com Issue 34