The Miracle Riders announce ride dates.
COLUMBUS, Ga. (WRBL) — The Miracle Riders will be hitting the road to raise awareness for Columbus State University’s nursing program and raise funds for a new neonatal intensive care unit, also known as NICU simulation lab.
Fourteen men will travel 8,900 miles round trip to visit 29 states — specifically, the riders will visit cities and towns also named Columbus. The journey will take three weeks starting May 6 with a purpose to fundraise for the CSU Nursing program.
Since 2021, The Miracle Riders have supported the nursing program and have raised almost half a million dollars. The fundraising goal the riders have set is for one million dollars.
Dr. Stuart Rayfield, the president of Columbus State University, shed light on the importance of this partnership.
“This allows us to have state of the art mannequins so that our students get to deliver babies. They get to have interactions with adults, with pediatrics,” said Rayfield. “And now we’re going to be able to have mannequins for a NICU environment, which is just phenomenal to have access to that.”
However, Rayfield is not the only one who cherishes this partnership. Scott Ressmeyer, the founder of The Miracle Riders, shed light on the importance of supporting CSU.
“It’s something. We felt like we could train nurses. Maybe they’d stay here in our community. Even if they go to another community, they’re still helping kids. And, you know, our biggest thing is to do what we can make a difference in one child’s life. And what better way to do that than train some nurses and they walk in and see that child for the first time, and they can help bring that child back to wellness and put them back out.”
Scott Ressmeyer, Founder of The Miracle Riders
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The Miracle Riders motto is to make a difference in one child’s life. The fourteen men who will be going on the ride look forward to telling the story of Columbus in Columbus and are committed to the children who can benefit from their efforts.
Brian Brock, a member of the Miracle Riders, told WRBL the significance of these annual rides.
”Typically, you don’t see men riding motorcycles wearing black leather as compassionate. But when we get it on the road, and we run across somebody that has any issue at all and it makes us think and then we’re all standing around crying. That’s the juxtaposition of what we’re doing and how we’re riding motorcycles.”
Brian Brock, an 11-year member of The Miracle Riders
The Miracle Riders have also invited a new rider to the trip this year. Mr. Ross White has been riding motorcycles for 20 years. White says he is excited to see how the community comes together.
The Miracle Riders will be leaving from Frank D. Brown Hall the morning of May 6 and will be coming back to Columbus the evening of May 24 to a celebration on Broadway in Uptown Columbus.
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