Melvin & Rochelle

We met at a Christian Motorcycle Association event called Seasons of Refreshing. We often joke about how he offered me his honey extractor as his pick up line. It just happened to be we both love God, motorcycle, and raised bees. We tried to elope to Niagara Falls, but our children caught on very quickly and clearly wanted to be a part of our special day. Looking back, I have no doubt God played a big part in orchestrating all the events that brought us together. I am also extremely grateful that we had our friends and family at our wedding in August, 2019. We rode our bikes to the boarder of Canada where Melvin proceeded to tell the boarder agent he was on his honeymoon. Curiously, the agent looks at him and asks, “alone?” I had rode through a different booth and was already over the border , so the agent didn’t know I was traveling with him.

Rochelle

Born in Utica, NY; She has one older sister, and no brothers. She went to John F. Kennedy High School and graduated from SUNY Cobleskill in 1987, with a degree in Floriculture. She then moved to Suffolk County, Long Island, where she worked for Flower Time Greenhouses and Nursery. She married and had three boys, but divorced in 2001. In the interim, she graduated from St. Joseph’s College with a degree in Early Childhood and Adolescent Education. She moved back to Utica to raise her three children, and began working for Rome City School District as an elementary teacher, and currently works as a reading and math teacher. She was raised Catholic during her childhood, and later as an adult she became born again, and started going to a Pentecostal church in Camden, NY. After she married in 2019, she moved to Cold Brook, NY. where she resides with her husband and Jack Russell, Miley, in an off-grid, tiny house.

Melvin

Born in Herkimer, NY; he has one sister snd no other siblings. He graduated from West Canada Creek High School. He has 4 children who are all adults today. He has worked in general construction most of his career. He is the owner and sole employee of Construction Solutions. He is planning on retiring soon and looking forwards to starting a greenhouse and nursery business and work from home. He built an off-grid tine house in the Adirondacks and plans on building a garage and main house that will also be off-grid. He is an ordained minister and is an evangelist who loves to travel by motorcycle with his wife to share the Gospel.

Christian Motorcycle Association

The Christian Motorcyclists Association is interdenominational and evangelistic in nature. Their mission statement reads, “Our mission is to inspire our leaders and members to be the most organized, advanced, equipped, financially stable organization, full of integrity in the motorcycling industry and the Kingdom of God.” The CMA’s vision is , “Changing the world, one heart at a time.” They accomplish their vision through: primarily evangelistic outreach, Run for the Son, equipping members in ministry training that aligns itself with Biblical truths. For more information on this ministry visit: http://www.cmausa.org