ATV Champion Leaves Tracks in North Ohio Juvenile Centers

May 2006

Quinn Michael was the 2002 Open TT Class National Champion of ATV racing. He is also known throughout the world as building “tricked” out four-wheelers and the best show quads. He has been in numerous magazines with his Yamaha Raptor being featured on the cover of ATV Sport in 2003.

Quinn has racing in his blood, but he also has a compassion for incarcerated teens. This past month, he teamed up with Breakaway Outreach for the North Ohio Breakaway Xperience - taking the life-changing message of Jesus Christ to the most troubled kids in the state of Ohio.

ATV Champion Quinn Michael does a stunt demonstration at a maximum risk youth facility.

Quinn is no stranger to bars himself. He was in jail years ago when a Gideon’s member gave him a Bible. He began reading it in his 5x9 cell and discovered the redemptive power of Jesus Christ behind barbed wire fences. Years later he went on to start his own construction business before launching a racing career in the world of ATV racing.

During the North Ohio crusade, the Breakaway team visited youth facilities that have been described as prisons for the “worst-of-the-worst” kids in the state.

At one maximum risk facility, over 160 youths responded to the Gospel and made decisions for Christ after Quinn did his four-wheeler stunt demonstration and shared his testimony. The superintendent of that institution told our team that in all his years of working at that facility he has never seen the young people so engaged in a presentation as they were with the Breakaway Xperience. To God be the glory!

In conjunction with the crusade, Breakaway provided a juvenile detention center ministry training workshop to cultivate an ongoing follow-up ministry in Ohio youth facilities offering a blueprint for aftercare, mentoring, and discipleship.

Yul with Quinn during the Breakaway Xperience North Ohio Crusade.

Our team was blessed to have Yul on board for the Ohio Breakaway Xperience ministering through music and testimony. Yul was locked-up in a juvenile facility a little over a year ago when he was touched by a Breakaway TV video production that inspired him to surrender his life and music to God. This past year he has been living at the discipleship home of a Breakaway affiliate ministry near Ocala, Florida.

Yul has been traveling with Breakaway and visiting juvenile centers in Florida, Virginia, and Ohio in recent months. It is such a joy watching him grow in the Lord while sharing the hope of Christ with thousands of other young people like himself. He’s been invited to do a special concert and share his testimony at a Nascar outreach in Kentucky later this month.

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