Mel Chancey

I was a believer for many years before I made my outward.

How do you know when you're ready?

I'm just curious.

In your mind, when are you ready?

I can't pray, Shawn.

You know, I grew up in a very strict Catholic home, and my mom, all Italian, my dad,

was German and Swedish, and he called himself the Heinz 57.

He had a lot in him, right?

And, but, you know, my mom, my two, I had two older sisters, so I was raised in that strict women, Italian family.

I was the only boy.

So, you know, when you're in that kind of family, an Italian family, and you're the only boy, they spoil you.

You have to get spoiled, right?

So that's kind of what threw me off with all the women later in life, right?

But I'm...

I had known the Lord and was an altar boy, and CCD and catechism made my communion and everything.

So obviously, as we'll get into it, I veered off a different path and wasn't fellowshipping with the Lord through all them Hell's Angel years.

So when I got the RICO indictment and ended up sitting in a federal holding facility with no bond,

That's when I got down on my knees and I felt the presence of the Lord on my heart.

It was heavy.

And I just got down and I said, you know what, Lord, I can't do this no more.