Named Person: Barry Mayson; Barry Mayson
Material Type: Videorecording
Document Type: Visual material
All Authors / Contributors: CBN University Film Productions.; Gospel Films, Inc.
OCLC Number: 52939333
Credits: Music, William F. Buchanan ; editors, Christopher J. Panneck, Donna Tooley; director of photography, Antonio Zarro.
Cast: Jimmy Ragsdale (Barry), Vivian Lamar (Fran), Frances Martin (Barry’s mother).
Description: 1 videocassette (46 min.) : sound, color ; 1/2 in.
Other Titles: Barry Mayson story
Responsibility: CBN University Film Productions ; produced by Alan L.C. Campbell ; written by Pam Robels ; directed by Wesley E. Llewellyn.
Abstract: Recounts the true story of a motorcycle gang member whose life is transformed when he becomes a Christian.
His Life Before Jesus Came In:
Born 1943, Charles Barry Mayson, he was a rider with the Hell’s Angels in the 1960s-70s. He wore a “1%” patch on his jacket in response to a police official’s remark that 99 percent of the public is law-abiding. The only way “out” of the gang is death…that’s the rule of life of the Hell’s Angels, the then most notorious and dreaded motorcycle gang in the United States. The life of the Hell’s Angels supposedly only consists of drinking, drugs, power, prostitution, and stolen goods.
Barry had grown up in Charleston, South Carolina. He had no recollections of his father; he thought he had died. His 5-foot-tall, 80 pound mother did all she could sweetly do to raise him in a Christian home; and he made a profession of faith in Jesus at age 9. But, he later learned that his father was in jail serving a life sentence for murder. At age 16, his stepfather, Ben Mayson, died of malaria. By cheating his way through high school he managed to graduate. But his college career was short-lived…the small Baptist college in which he was enrolled in the mountains of Georgia soon expelled him. He joined the Army, married, and fathered two sons.
Then, after seeing the motorcycling movie, “Hell’s Angels on Wheels” with the seeming carefree life on the road, the motorcycle entered his life. To him it spelled freedom, a chance to break out of the ever-narrowing circle of life. He began to ride with a small Atlanta club called the Rising Suns. His marriage fell apart. When police raided the club, Barry fled to stay out of jail. He was 26. From the Rising Suns he moved to a feared South Carolina club, the Tribulators; they called him Barry-Barry. Four years later he met the Hell’s Angels and became a member on the East Coast. He was soon involved in terrorist-type activities. He had guns with silencers and 25 pounds of explosives hidden in his backyard. “Everything was well organized and secret, but I knew that people were getting killed,” he says. Oddly, his mom came bursting into the club one day, “Praise the Lord! God gave me a vision to tell you that you aren’t a Hell’s angel; you are a child of God!” Soon, the gang life that had spelled freedom had become an enslavement!
In 1976 this biker went to California for the funeral of an “angel” who had been shot and killed in San Diego. Here he was given orders to kill several members of a rival club on the East Coast. Although he had been involved in crime for several years, he balked at the thought of himself committing murder. He refused, was rejected by the gang and became the next target of his “own” gang. Spotting the gang set for the “hit”, he ducked into a restaurant to contemplate his last minutes alive. And, deeply troubled, from San Francisco he called, “Gypsy”, his second wife who was staying with his mother in South Carolina. He previously feared or respected no one — except his mom — a devoted Christian who had always sweetly, lovingly, and fearlessly spoken to him and his biker and prostitute friends about the love of Christ. He now expected to be killed. He wanted to tell his wife and mother that he was sorry for all that he had done that pained them over the years. He felt afraid, lonely, and empty. But Barry’s mother began to give him hope. No one is beyond forgiveness, she told him, quoting Bible promises of God’s love and offer of salvation. The telephone conversation lasted three hours during which his loving mother lead him back to Jesus again!
He hung up the phone and looked up into a wall mirror and thought he saw FBI agents behind him. He thought, “I can’t believe Momma went and called the FBI and got them here so quick!” He walked out thinking they were behind him; as he got away, he realized that no FBI was actually there. Barry is sure that he was accompanied by angels who could be seen by others as FBI agents. It was later known that Barry’s mom had been given a vision at that same time of Barry being protected by a hedge of fire.
His Life Since Jesus Came In:
At age 33, something happened to Charles Barry Mayson that night of 27 October 1976. In his own words, “A new hope, new joy, and healing power swept over me as Jesus gloriously made me a new creature.” “Barry-Barry” and “1%-Barry” died; a new Barry emerged. The new Barry went to a Bible college in Florida, was ordained a minister of the gospel, and returned to Charleston to start a youth and prison ministry called Heaven’s Saints Motorcycle Ministrywhich is much involved in youth prison prevention efforts. He even wrote to the Hell’s Angels and sent them Christian literature!
But if Barry was finished with the gang, the gang was not finished with Barry. One day a member came to his door, claiming to have quit the Hell’s Angels and asking for help. He stayed with Barry for six weeks. One day when he was drunk he confessed that he had been sent to kill Barry but could not bring himself to do it. After that, the Hell’s Angels, concluding that Barry was a “nut,” left him alone.
How do you account for Barry’s story? That something happened to him that night in the San Francisco diner is obvious…something dramatic, something radical. Barry Mayson became a new person. “Gypsy” accepted Jesus that same night, and Barry & Fran had 2 boys and a girl, the two youngest raised as Christians. Of his 5 children, the 3 oldest went through real problems; but all turned out well, and they all now serve The Lord. Barry still travels through the country but now in the service of Jesus Christ. He helps prisoners and young people in trouble. In schools he also gives advice concerning alcohol and drugs and especially wants to warn about the awful consequences of all kinds of addictions.
耶穌降臨之前祂的生活：
查爾斯·巴里·梅森 (Charles Barry Mayson) 出生於 1943 年，20 世紀 60 年代至 70 年代曾是地獄天使 (Hell’s Angels) 的騎士。他在夾克上佩戴了「1％」的補丁，以回應一位警官所說的「99％的民眾都是守法的」。逃離幫派的唯一出路就是死亡……這是地獄天使幫的生活規則，地獄天使幫是當時美國最臭名昭著、最令人恐懼的摩托車幫派。據說地獄天使的生活只包括酗酒、吸毒、權力、賣淫和贓物。
巴里在南卡羅來納州查爾斯頓長大。他不記得他的父親；他以為自己已經死了。他身高 5 英尺、體重 80 磅的母親竭盡全力將他培養成一個基督教家庭；並在九歲時信仰了耶穌。 16 歲時，他的繼父本梅森 (Ben Mayson) 因瘧疾去世。他靠著作弊完成了高中學業並成功畢業。但他的大學生活是短暫的……他就讀的佐治亞州山區的一所小型浸會大學很快就將他開除了。他參軍、結婚並育有兩個兒子。
後來，在看了摩托車電影《地獄天使》並體驗了看似無憂無慮的公路生活後，摩托車進入了他的生活。對他來說，這意味著自由，一個擺脫日益狹窄的生活圈的機會。他開始與亞特蘭大一家名為“Rising Suns”的小俱樂部一起騎馬。他的婚姻破裂了。當警察突襲俱樂部時，巴里逃跑了以避免入獄。他當時 26 歲。他們叫他巴里巴里。四年後，他遇到了地獄天使並成為東海岸的一員。他很快就參與了恐怖主義活動。他的後院藏有帶消音器的槍和 25 磅炸藥。他說：“一切都井然有序、秘密進行，但我知道有人會被殺害。”奇怪的是，有一天他的媽媽突然闖進俱樂部，“感謝主！上帝給我一個幻象告訴你，你不是地獄天使；你是上帝的孩子！”很快，原本意味著自由的幫派生活變成了奴役！
1976年，這名騎車人前往加州參加在聖地牙哥被槍殺的一位「天使」的葬禮。在這裡，他接到命令殺死東海岸一個敵對俱樂部的幾名成員。儘管他已經從事犯罪活動好幾年了，但是一想到自己會去謀殺，他就感到很畏懼。他拒絕了，被幫派拒絕，並成為「自己」幫派的下一個目標。當他發現這夥歹徒正準備「行兇」時，他躲進了一家餐館，思考自己生命中最後的時刻。令他深感困擾的是，他在舊金山給他的第二任妻子「吉普賽」打了電話，當時她正和他的母親住在南卡羅來納州。以前，他不懼怕也不尊重任何人——除了他的母親——她是一名虔誠的基督徒，總是溫柔體貼、無畏無懼地向他以及他的騎車手和妓女朋友們宣揚基督的愛。他現在擔心自己會被殺。他想告訴他的妻子和母親，他對自己多年來所做的一切讓她們痛苦的事情感到抱歉。他感到害怕、孤單、空虛。但巴里的母親開始給予他希望。她告訴他，沒有人是不可原諒的，並引用了聖經中關於上帝的愛和救贖的承諾。電話交談持續了三個小時，其間他慈愛的母親再次引導他回到耶穌身邊！
他掛斷電話，抬頭看向牆上的鏡子，覺得好像看到後面有聯邦調查局探員。他想：“我不敢相信媽媽去打電話給聯邦調查局並且這麼快就把他們叫來了！”他走了出去，以為他們跟在他身後；當他逃跑時，他意識到那裡實際上沒有聯邦調查局。巴里確信自己身邊有天使，其他人可能視這些天使為聯邦調查局特工。後來人們得知，巴瑞的媽媽當時看到了幻象，看到巴瑞受到一道火焰籬笆的保護。
耶穌降生以來他的生活：
1976 年10 月27 日晚上，33 歲的查爾斯·巴里·梅森經歷了一些事情。治癒的力量湧上心頭。 「Barry-Barry」和「1%-Barry」去世了；一個新的巴里出現了。新的巴里進入了佛羅裡達州的一所聖經學院，被任命為福音牧師，並回到查爾斯頓創辦了一個名為“天堂聖徒摩托車事工”的青少年和監獄事工，該事工主要參與青少年監獄預防工作。他甚至寫信給地獄天使並向他們發送基督教文學！
但是如果巴里和幫派完了關係，幫派就不會和巴里完蛋了。有一天，一名成員來到他家門口，聲稱已經退出地獄天使並尋求幫助。他和巴里在一起待了六個星期。有一天，當他喝醉時，他承認他被派去殺死巴里，但他無法下定決心這麼做。此後，地獄天使認為巴里是個“瘋子”，便不再騷擾他了。
您如何解釋巴里的故事？那天晚上在舊金山餐廳裡發生的事情顯而易見……是戲劇性的、激進的。巴里梅森 (Barry Mayson) 煥然一新。 「吉普賽」當晚就接受了耶穌，巴里和弗蘭有了兩個兒子和一個女兒，其中兩個最小的孩子被培養成基督徒。在他的 5 個孩子中，最大的 3 個經歷了真正的問題；但一切結果都很好，他們現在都服事主。巴里仍然在全國各地旅行，但現在是為了服事耶穌基督。他幫助囚犯和陷入困境的年輕人。在學校裡，他也為酒精和毒品問題提供建議，並特別警告各類上癮行為所帶來的可怕後果。
