If you attended June's Morgan Junction Festival or the recent West Seattle Summer Fest you may have noticed a booth crowded with a gracious gang of motorcycle enthusiasts, each sporting a black t-shirt with a cross emblem designed with two wrenches. Their booth was decorated with some of their handiwork, recycled cycles they'd fixed at their West Seattle MISSIONmoto ministry where these holy-rollers wheel and deal Hondas, Yamahas, and vintage bikes with all profits going toward their missionary work. So far, sales have benefitted the West Seattle Food Bank, meals for the Union Gospel Mission, cooking stoves for Guatemalan villagers, and a Nepalese minister who can now begin his work in his mountainous nation.

Founder, Michael Daily, 39, got the idea of MISSIONmoto while attending New Hope Church in Shoreline where Pastor Jon Burgess gave the idea his blessing. There is no church or pews, but rather an 820 square-foot, three-car garage he built behind his house near Morgan Junction.

"I graduated with my MBA from Seattle Pacific University where I took some entrepreneurial management classes and decided I wanted to use those skills," said Daily, who also worked nine years as senior project manager and Oracle Transportation Management Lead at Starbucks Corporate. "The boat and car donation thing seemed to be working well (for others) and the business model was pretty neat, but motorcycles were my passion."

Daily said he retired from Starbucks and now owns a motorcycle dealership, Kickstart Motors, 2106 south Holgate Street, with business partner Ian Halcott, who also owns Twin Line Motorcycles. Daily is a father of three, including a newborn, and his wife Stephanie works in corporate finance for Nordstrom.

There are about 10 core members of the mission and others who flock to Daily's garage Tuesday nights after 6:30 p.m. both for fellowship, and "wrenching," or working on motorcycles and receiving instruction.

"We start out and close with prayer but you don't have to join in," said Daily. "People can come and have fellowship and hang out with Christians and know we're not all weirdos."

Daily pointed out the motorcycle mission is not just a "guy thing."

"Women drop by and learn about fixing bikes on Tuesday's," he said. "They are the fastest growing segment (of motorcycle buyers) and women in their 20's to 30's are now getting into the vintage bikes which are classified by the state as at least 30 years old.

"We're not a riding club, but we strongly encourage new riders to take the Washington State motorcycle training course and wear safety gear," he added.

"I think there are so many unused bikes sitting in garages, under tarps and decks, that people would be glad to donate to us, and get a tax write-off, too," said Daily. MISSIONmoto has non-profit status and in this summer will achieve tax exempt status.

"We accept bike parts, and we'd like to receive a sidecar because we have a neighbor with special needs who would love riding. We advertise our bikes for sale on our Facebook page, our blog, and craigslist."

"I found out about MISSIONmoto through Life Church here on 35th and Cloverdale," said Drew Cassady, Daily's neighbor and a Redmond firefighter for 17 years. He has owned about 24 motorcycles over the years and currently rides a Sport Touring Honda 1300. "I prayed for a place to use my talents and bring glory to God. When you ride a motorcycle you have more access to people and the outdoors than being locked in the car. Sometimes when I'm on the road and fill up my tank I get into hour-long conversations with people about traveling, and sometimes about the mission."

"There's a common bond between motorcycle riders," said mission member Dave Doucette, who, with some of the others, gets involved with the Christian Motorcyclists Association, or CMA, which is national. His son Will, 11, who accompanies Dad to the garage has his eye on a small red 49cc bike parked there. Another neighbor of Daily, Ian Sutton, of Green Home Contractors, said he passed by the garage and said "Hi" to Michael and now he too is part of the motley crew, as are Seth Wray, the "shop ninja," and Jim Garland who just returned from building stoves in Nuevo Santiago Maya, a Guatemalan village. Two other West Seattle residents joined him. Garland works with a global brand team on Amazon.com and is a creative designer who does some of the marketing for MISSIONmoto.

The Guatemalan project was through the Hands For Peacemaking Foundation, an interfaith non-profit highly engaged with Rotary International.

"We had a bike donated to fund the trip, a Suzuki GS 550cc," Garland said. "Currently the villagers cook with sticks indoors on the bare ground breathing in that smoke. We built 70 clean-burning stoves, piped the smoke outside the hut, and now the women and children don't have to spend as much time gathering wood. We left hardware and tools for them to continue."

So what kind of motorcycle would Jesus ride? The answer was unanimous and without hesitation.

"Jesus would drive a dual-sport," said Daily and the others. "You can get anywhere," he grinned. A dual-sport is a street-legal motorcycle designed to go off-road too.

" I think people who have a passion for motorcycles are probably more passionate than car nuts," said Daily. "And when you ignite that with spreading the Gospel you've got something really neat."

To donate a motorcycle, scooter, or bike parts, or to come by the garage Tuesday nights, you can phone Michael Daily at (206) 427-1955 or email him at mdaily@comcast.net.