Community Builder & Visionary

It started with one human being, LOVE LOVE LOVE. Stirring the pot.

He told me that when you really wanted to keep warm, you took your toothpaste, and you squeezed it out over your body limbs, and then wrapped yourself in newspaper . . . these are these little things that you begin to learn about what it takes to survive outside with no resources.

This is a product of what can happen when creativity collides with vision.

The mustard seed of an idea was 'could we go out and purchase one gently used 5th Wheel RV and lift one human being up off the streets' . . . just one.

You're going to see the most awesome, the most beautiful urban farm in all of Austin, Texas. It's unbelievable what we're doing out here from a mustard seed of an idea.

Organic, heirloom quality, free-range chicken eggs, goat's milk, honey bees--all on this farm that's free to everybody that lives in this community.

But you have to bring to the table the willingness to allow many, many people to come in and nourish that.

We are building an RV park . . . to lift chronically homeless men and women up off the streets . . . people that most would consider the most despised and outcast in our community.

You have to open the door . . . The creatives are sitting here with ideas, simple ideas. How do we take those simple ideas and maybe explode them into a movement. That's what we believe has happened here.

How do we go in and mine that talent. That's what this place is all about. How do we rediscover their purpose in life and then empower that purpose in life.

All of this happening from somebody that you could look at and stereotype as just being a worthless . . . gang member that has no value in life. And it was one of the many extraordinary lessons that I've been blessed with over the course of this journey with Mobile Loaves and Fishes.

One thing that I've discovered amongst people that battle some of these extreme mental-health problems is some of the most creative people that I've ever met on the planet.

We have the greatest designs on the planet. And when our men and women come into the community, they get to walk around like you and I get to walk around, and make choices about where they are going to live.