Gryder says he was one of seven chaplains—six of them being AG ministers with four of them also being AG U.S. missionaries to bikers—accompanying riders on the Central Route, which is one of four routes the RFTW organizers offer.
Assemblies of God U.S. Missions Motorcycle Chaplain Duane Gryder recently took part in the 2024 Run For the Wall®, an annual event which honors veterans and their families and friends with a 10- or 11-day cross-country ride from Ontario, California, to the Vietnam Veterans Memorial Wall in Washington, D.C.
However, on May 19, the fifth day of the 3,000-mile journey, Gryder and a mass of about 250 riders on the Central Route ran into an unexpectedly vicious storm while traversing the plains of central Kansas on I-70. High winds, sheeting rain and hail as large as golf balls—some even larger— Posted in Christian News