European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - April 29, 2007, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Sunday april 292007 stars and stripes Page 21 religion c photos by Mike wild Bill Spieiman right Speaks to the congregation assembled at the salvation Saloon an alternative ministry meet ing at Steves Cape Coj bar two weeks ago in Palm Harbor a your parents Church each week local bar i salvation Saloon for Motley worshippers by Matt Sedensky the associated press Ozona Fla the pastor wears a sleeveless Black shirt Blue jeans and a backward baseball Cap the col Lection is taken in a motorcycle helmet and the first thing you see As you walk in the door of this makeshift Church int a Cross or a stained Glass window if s a bar Steves Cape god a seafood restaurant and bar known for ally Uchneat Snow crab on monday and la dieldrin free night on wednesday is reborn each Sun Day morning As the salvation Saloon worshippers who go by names like curly Joe and wild Bifi file in by the dozen Many holding plastic foam cups of Coffee some biting at a ser vice they say is unlike any other this is not your parents Church Paul White who Cre White started salvation Saloon three years ago in this Tampa Bay area town As an attempt to being a unique Cowkey spiritual experience to others who shared his love for motorcycles the occasional service has grown into a weekly garnering the congregation has grown to roughly 100 each sunday and attendees now represent More diverse demographics than bikers alone organizers have even taken their ministry on the Road offering a service in another Florida bar every couple months i feel very drawn to this ministry said Bill Spieiman a 61yearold advertising Salesman from Dunedin it is so powerful to be Able to Conie Here and hear people talk about me miracles in their lives christians have Long sought to bring their Faith to places outside the traditional Church from the rapid growth of skateboarding ministries to smaller scale outreach to Cir Cus and carnival workers salvation Saloon is nondenominational Randall Balmer a professor of american religious history at Columbia University said it is one of countless endeavours seeking to at tract congregants who otherwise might not be reached it strikes me As a fairly Good illustration of the ability of evangelicals to speak the idiom of the culture no matter where they find themselves he said i see this kind of tiring As the successor to the try to be All things to All people it is Motley Bunch of Black leather vests and Harley Davidson shirts of tattooed arms and patches that say in memory of Jesus congregants own personal experiences Are a Center piece of salvation Saloon the ministry web site a knowl pastor Paul White raises his hand As he leads members of the salvation Saloon congregation in a prayer for a member the service includes at its Start a performance by the posse band which gathers on a Small stage with sword fish mounted on a panelled Wall at the Back they sing Boulevard of broken dreams by Green Day As a projection screen features cartoon characters Ren and skimpy with the message Welcome Saloon tics White says they try to keep discussion of Bible stories or Jesus works simple and relevant there Are no Church songs communion is served once a month there Are however jokes big gnarly biker walks into a trivia mat Saloon tic Complete with a members baby picture and the theme music from and the Reading of the Saloon report comical fake classified we dont have any spiritual superstars Here White says we believe that serving god  be a Spectator sport several people leave their seats among lines of tables to share their own spiritual stories of overcoming hatred for a former spouse of overcoming a drug habit of accept ing Christ White takes the microphone at the end of the Estimo know where Jesus is he asks Hes right Here baby one of the members Mark ferryman says he cant imagine spending his sunday any other Way i cant think of a better Way to worship the lord he said than the Way we get together How do kids Cope growing up where polygamy is of three years after escaping such a Community woman still telling Story o to by Brooke Adams Salt Lake sons Salt Lake City it has been three years since Fawn Broadbent and Fawn Holm made a dramatic flight from their Homes in the polygamous Community at the state line Broadbent 20 has told the Story Many times now on or Phil Larry King live three in teen Vogue and to Media from Japan Germany and just last week England but her Story of life within the fundamentalist Church of Jesus Christ of latter Day saints the sect overseen by Warren Jeffs remains compelling and so she keeps telling it mostly because it allows her to spread another message one about what teens experience and need once they leave the rigid life style where Little emphasis is placed on education where boys Are funnelled into work and girls into marriage people need to know she said what s going on especially with education i figure telling my Story May help them gain a Little bit of understanding like Broadbent Many teens who have left Hildale Utah and Colorado City Ariz the folds it t e j it stronghold never got figure telling  until my help them Gofin help of anti polygamy a Littfe fit of activist Flora Jessop who made her own understanding m flight from the Community decades earlier Fawn Broadbent the teens alleged they Speaks often of her had been physically life growing up in a and emotionally polygamist Community abused at Home and said they feared being married off with no say at a moment5 s notice their parents refuted those claims saying the girls were merely rebellious teens As Many As 400 teens have left the Community Over the past decade according to a nonprofit group in Salt Lake City that works with Many of them most Are boys Broad Bent knows personally of Only a handful of girls who have left the twin towns in the past five years or so Jessop arranged to have the escapes filmed by a Phoe Nix television station and then kept the teens in hiding until their parents and Arizona authorities agreed to let them live in Sandy Utah with Holms brother and his family Holm stayed there just Over a year and then moved to St George Utah she now lives in Boston where she moved to receive intensive counselling Broadbent finds purpose in telling her Story and push ing for help for Young people like herself she was largely the inspiration for a resource web site set up through the Utah safety net committee aimed at teens who Are More Likely to surf the internet than read mailings or at least initially reach out to government for help the committee also acted on another of Broad bends ideas holding monthly group sessions for the displaced teens to meet talk and share their experiences most other kids dont want to get involved because of the poli tics she said there afraid they might lose Contact with family members while Many such teens Are Cut off by their families Broadbent talks with her parents periodically and even visited recently we dont talk about Warren Jeffs or re Ligion Broadbent said its mostly Small talk of Broad bends 13 siblings four Brothers have also left the folds fold there Are times she gets really homesick for the Rural Countryside for her siblings and her Mother but she focuses instead on her future Broadbent will head to Weber state University in Ogden Utah this fall where a Fullride scholarship awaits she wants to pursue a de Gree in criminal Justice though the Prospect of College seems daunting in a Little bit nervous she said