Some Christians look for quiet, familiar places to hand someone a gospel tract. Jack and Sandy look for crowds.

In August, the husband/wife duo headed for South Dakota and the annual Sturgis Motorcycle Rally.

For ten days, the normally small city of Sturgis is transformed. Motorcycles pack the streets as riders and visitors pour into the Black Hills for concerts, rides, stunt shows, and other events. The City of Sturgis says the rally regularly turns its population of roughly 7,100 into more than 450,000 people.

For Jack, all those people represented an enormous mission field.

“Almost 400,000 people come to this small town for ten days,” he wrote. “Sturgis is the largest motorcycle rally in the U.S.A., maybe in the world!”

Amid the motorcycles, noise and crowds, Jack went to work. He distributed 600 Chick tracts, along with hundreds of other gospel tracts to eager festivalgoers.

“I was very well received, and had people coming to me, asking for prayer,” he reported. Jack summed up the experience simply: “I love going to Sturgis!”

Less than a month later, Jack and Sandy were at it again. This time they drove two hours to attend the Chief Blackhawk Swap Meet. Their plan was straightforward: work their way through the crowd and distribute gospel tracts.

Once they arrived, they discovered something they had not expected. A memorial service was being held for a young man who had recently been killed in a head-on motorcycle collision.

Suddenly, what had begun as another tract-distribution trip brought Jack and Sandy among a group of people confronted with the reality of death.

They did not barge into the service or turn someone's tragedy into a spectacle. Jack simply reported that as they distributed tracts and spoke with people, they encountered the young man's family and friends.

“We were warmly received as we tracted and spoke to the family and friends of this unfortunate young man,” he wrote.

Jack and Sandy could not have known when they began their two-hour drive that morning who would be there or what had happened. They simply went somewhere people were gathered and took the gospel with them.

“You never know what God is doing,” Jack wrote.

Jack loves tracting in places that others may pass right by, such as a motorcycle rally, a swap meet, a county fair, a flea market, festivals, and even car shows. Any event that brings hundreds or thousands of people together can provide hundreds or thousands of opportunities to place the gospel in someone's hand.

Between just the two outings, Jack and Sandy distributed 1,000 Chick tracts—600 at Sturgis and another 400 at the swap meet. At both places, they found people willing to receive them.

The next opportunity to reach someone with the gospel may not be where you expect it. As Jack put it, “If you’ll keep your eyes open, there are many unusual places to get the Gospel out.”