Women's biker club delivers bears and hugs
Members of thre Sisters of Chrome Motorcycle Club and Back River UMC
provide teddy bears to comfort vulnerable children
Donna Day straps teddy bears on her Harley Davidson motorcycle to help children who are experiencing trauma in their lives.
Day, aka Chaos, started the Sisters of Chrome motorcycle club to empower women to support charities and community activities while enjoying the freedom of riding motorcycles locally and across the country.
Chaos and her motorcycle sisters deliver donated teddy bears to local fire departments, police stations and hospital emergency rooms so that firemen, police officers and hospital personnel can give the stuffed animals to children they meet while on duty.
We want to bring hope and love to kids who have lost their toys and possessions in fires, witness domestic violence in their homes and who are sick in the emergency rooms in the hospitals, said Chaos. “And we are all mothers.”
This past spring, Chaos called the Rev. David Deans of neighboring Back River UMC in Baltimore and asked if the church would partner with the Sisters of Chrome by collecting teddy bears for children.
“Our vision is making a holy impact on the world,” said Deans who welcomed the partnership.
Deans asked congregants to bring big and small teddy bears to church on Sundays.
“Bringing the teddy bears on Sundays was an act of worship,” he said. “The response was overwhelming and I was impressed by the outpouring of the community. People were calling the church to make donations as well,” said Deans.
The church collected more than 100 teddy bears and held a special community worship service in May.
Chaos and Sisters of Chrome attended the worship. She and her fellow sisters witnessed members praying and laying hands on the teddy bears. “It was a touching service,” said Chaos whose road name stemmed from having a full, hectic life.
Deans is looking forward to partnering with Sisters of Chrome again next year to bring comfort to children.
Such teddy bear ministries are growing in popularity. In March, uniformed police officers attended a special worship service at Trinity UMC in Prince Frederick to receive teddy bears that the church had
collected for hurting children.
Steve Esposito, a police officer and member of Trinity UMC, found joy in giving a teddy bear to a child when he responded to a domestic violence incident. “It’s a big help,” he told the Rev. Charles Harrell, pastor of Trinity.
If you or your church would like donate teddy bears to the Sisters of Chrome please call 443-276-7729 or e-mail
The idea came from Tina Esposito, Esposito’s wife, who asked church members to bring teddy bears to church. The church collected more than 500 teddy bears and members of Trinity’s “Faithworks” program tagged the stuffed animals with “You are loved” messages.
On July 25, Sisters of Chrome rode their motorcycles carrying bags of donated teddy bears to local fire departments, police stations and hospital emergency rooms. “Anytime we can help our community and put smiles on children’s faces, we are going to keep doing it and our goal is to deliver teddy bears in every part of Maryland, said Chaos, whose aunt and niece died in a house fire.
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