his company that him and 2 other boys started is grossing 20000000 this year. and it's yeah, i was so proud of him. and there's kevin and chris. this is my oldest son and his fiance. i love them so much. i'm so incredibly proud of all of them and i'm so thankful that they're back to my life now. i'll never be able to regain the 5 years, but i feel i have a better relationship with them now than i did back then. and i think it's because we've all grown and matured and it's a different type of relationship than when you're racing small children. we respect each other as adults and i don't ever want to be without them again a

with her and i've been on the streets for almost 9 years. i lost test my girls back in 20. so back in november, when my daughter passed away and committed suicide, she just turned it in. and kat kids, sherry, and they were in my life, but god put them directly in my life. and i didn't want to go to my daughters and memorial highs. so i got so which 2 days before and they helped me get there. and they, when i got back, they put me in a hotel room until i can get in a rehab. and then after i got out of rehab, i went directly to eden village too. and i wasn't there. we wouldn't be here right

now. honestly, i probably would have died in my vacation. oh oh and i'm about the everyday miracle. so, you know, if people get part time job with decorating their own home being being asked. yeah . are we allowed to decorate for always? yeah. the church. yeah. yeah. by all means please do. it's, it's, that's probably what i enjoy the most about. it is being able to watch the changes in people's lives right now. yeah. as something that i did don't, wasn't any kind of a reward out of any other jobs and definitely say that it's definitely been a blessing to be able to experience those kinds of things. there are no you love fish fishing fishing. yeah. me too

many to like you have no clue who my why? i've been here. great. yeah, she stays at the campground. sometimes a funeral. unfortunately a lot of people don't make it out of edition or homelessness alive and i'm just really happy that i made it. and my daughter, i'm making her crown, and that's all i want to do is make sure that you don't, you didn't do it with our current. i actually need to put like make a sign is exit with the old way it's ranking. maybe make a sign to put underneath that. that's actually a really good idea. i'm gonna literally, i'm gonna get a more lights up,

and i'm gonna put that on there. i'm exit with. they always thinking it's easier to say it's addiction or it's this or that. there is a multitude of things can make somebody homeless and he got up in a low income situation and began with a lot of people are one paycheck away from being homeless, grow out without a support system. you're not taught how to do certain things that some people are taught out to do in order to survive or take care of yourself in life. i grew up and foster, you know, people say, you know, homeless people. there's a high crime rate when you're in survival med, i know a guy that's been arrested and put in jail like 4 or 5 times for stealing sandwich . but when the option is go hungry or take

a say once it's really hard to say what you would do unless you're in that situation. springfield's been a very good community. does that and let's give back, let's, let's help the homeless if we can. so mary and i got involved the young lady that lives here. miranda is a phenomenal example. you just give her a little help. you just help her plan to see she grows of massive tree. this lady is more involved in the community with good deeds than i have ever been. and i'm really impressed with that. we just gave or helped her with the little start and she's did the rails. that's a huge success story. and we want that to continue this village will go on for perpetuity because there's technically bes tenants are renters. but when,

when i say ownership, i mean to include them because i think they take a personal interest and they take an ownership mentality in this house and there's pride in that ownership. this is my house right here. i actually built the flower bed right here by myself. the red bread cried there. i met all that. and then the tree out there. i just wanted a tree in my front yard. this is my garden that i've planted since i've been here actually. i got tomato plants, a really big enough to plant too much stuff in it, but i'm from the country. so i had to plant something i guess digging in the earth and getting myself back in touch with the earth. i mean with god's creation. so kind to help me with my recovery to work in my flower garden. so i guess that's why i've got so many flowers and plants,

and i take tried my house. so you'll notice that we have one house that's different than all the rest in this house would design by the local school of architecture during university. and it was specifically designed for a young man who was deaf, they knew was going to go in here. and so they, they did some things that you wouldn't think about the research. what is a deaf person needed a couple examples is they don't need any hidden corners as much as possible to be able to see everything in the house. and the other thing that i would never thought of is that the wall colors and the painting of the wall needs to be different from flesh tone because the sign language. and so the background is the same as flash color. it's hard to resign.

that's a lot of love right there because all of all of our hands, all of our hands there was on our volunteer day where we had volunteers from all over campus. come out and, and help us paint the inside and outside the house, including you. you help paint which is a lot of fun. i remember it. well, yeah. all right, so i was 12, i know was oh my father and stepmother. they were abusive fabulously and i had enough at the age of 12. and so i tried to miss that. i tried to, i tried to kill my step mother, and that started the whole process of me going to jail. and being in foster care,

mental hospitals from the age of 12 until the age of 17. when finally, i went back to live with my father and he kicked me out of the house at the age of 17. so eat and village and re bob. 66. have had a long standing partnership with the drury school of architecture, but even village one they designed to built a home for one of our residents named mel for the camp ground. last year. they designed to built 2 of these teardrop trailers job for people to camp in and then this year they're going to design and build a handicap accessible unit for somebody to be able to stay in. what is the square footage of the living area. so it's an 8 foot by 10 foot, that's large enough for a full sized bed. so couples can stay there if they like, but it's also wheelchair accessible. so we've got the turning radius and there for the wheelchair. for then on the outside we've got an extra large deck space

gathering space is what we're hoping so that folks can gather and have community there. i mean, can you imagine with the wheelchair accessibility living on the streets, not having access really the bathrooms and showers and, and things have been coming and getting this cool nights. right. isn't right. bill bar stools. yeah. incredible. we're really hoping that they feel like they're coming to at least a temporary help ra know that even village are permanent homes and revives 6 is a nightly ran. all right, but we still want that warm homey feeling. and so the students have done a couple of things to actually reinforce that idea. and that feeling, not only is it going to be warm and comfortable and dry in there, but also they're doing this unique window wall. and they're going to light that up from the outside. so all the way from chess, not to be able to see these windows glow. what i'm loving about this house is part of what we do is try to change people's

perceptions of homelessness, right? and so you passed by a homeless shelter and you put your blinders on and you don't want to see that. you don't want to see the line at the soup kitchen and we don't wanna look at that part of our city, but the campground and cabins like this demand that you turn ahead and you look like you look on homelessness and you see something beautiful, beautiful place for them to stay and something that draws your attention off of route 66. so this is going to be cool because it's going to demand that people pass by and turn and see almost people getting helped you know and getting a good night's sleep. yeah, 40 lives under we live. we lived underneath this bridge for 3 and a half months. this distance, it needs to be here or anything this down. well, they just don't want to hear. i mean, just from one end of that, they don't want your honor. it's just bridge, so if you can go fine, just fall somewhere else and get away with it for

a little bit until they're going to run. you also to domain, it's just a constant move. you're not going to have a permanent place just why what we have now is permanent living with people away. do they provide any type of believe in like for when there was people out of some place? no, no, they just started to, we have to find a new spot to take. you pack yourself up and go, you know, they're not going to try to help you out any in any way. ah,

there may or may, we should all be may it may, we should all be angry or was more, all right. can understand united states history and the role that slavery plate is already very formal institution at a time united states became a nation. it actually find the nation. the rise of capitalism is clearly on the backs of flight and leave down. investigate is that you can set a great extent. you can't believe a country. and a country still stands in brick. i'm from the south. everybody know, know what their failure to some extent, i would argue that we're still fighting the civil war. and the south is winning

from that night that nate walk down the railroad tracks and met jenny and sent him over to meet me that evening with some donations. i was in 2016. it took me until 2018 to decide to try to get my life turned around and decided that i wanted to quit using drugs and, and do something more of my life again. i was living in village gotten me out there. had said about trying to just put myself on the right track and like again trying to accomplish the things i wanted to accomplish. kind of have whole goal goals and hopes and dreams again. and just continue to work through eden village. i went and did my 1st college estimate a 1st semester a college was able to get a car is able to move out of eden village and. and i continue to work for them to

this day, helping to provide homes to other people who were less unfortunate and had known the same gun hardships i had you, one of them that needs to come up that needs to come. okay. probably need to tell you down to the black hole currently a i went to prison for a while there that to that it was and i think i hope i put that in there, said i had been to prison and some felony convictions. i mean sure. none of them are for their, for their property crimes of fraud and, and check writing to pay for drugs. and that's just the way that it was. i just don't think i am. i will not 20 for her. sleeping outside was really hard. and i knew a lot of people do it and i need them every day that are older than i am that are

that are surviving, but i beat up me. i'll admit it. my knee is demolished. oh, i fell off of the $25.00 foot stage of blues festival backwards once and tore them in this. i'm just trying to digest in process your story because you have been through a lot your, your, you have entered a lot to, we always say a living and answer bottom, being homeless as a form of trauma. but your entire story has been hit with a lot of trauma and i want you to know that, and i'm very sorry, certainly that your boss that you're offering solutions. that's good, that's the whole idea. and we're try and we also recognize that when you come to us, you're coming to us having gone through a whole lot. and i know you're trying to just hit the highlights and give me your story as quickly as you can. and i know there's a lot of fill in the share and,

and with an honesty goes along way with me because i have a lot of people sit here with me and let me train the face and tell me things like they don't use, you know, and when they get in here and i find out, you know, shortly there after that it's not easy. yeah. i know that i'm using math in sure. yeah. what we're talking about i was using so there wasn't a whole lot of nights i was laying my head down by when i wanted to use an all the time. i mean, middle, middle winter, it was, it was easier to use and to stay up for days instead of trying to the old to go the cold. he's methamphetamines, get all that energy and keep running around for days on in work up a sweat. you don't have to worry about it being 20 degrees outside and how you're gonna stay warm. you move, move, move. there's not really a great reason to stop using in the midst of living like this,

with no hope for a home or a job or anything like that much. there's nothing else better. why not just go ahead and run yourself and smear yourself even more endless cycle cycle? for me, the question is whether, whether the government should be renewing or after a mile, our personal believe is it's the citizens, it's our responsibility to solve this problem. we need the government help, but we don't think the government ought to be doing it. no, i don't think they don't think they can do as good a job. as the private citizens are the christian people, the churches, and that type of people can do. but it's the citizens and need to solve the problem with the government needs to help them. they've got resources they can give us and help us with that we shouldn't have to beg for may, should be willing to we've got

a model that works. why not support what we're doing? it's both a government and the community got yes, government with public funds. folks like mary and me with private funds need to come together. and i do think that private funds tend to be spent more wisely and more prudently on these issues than public tax funds. it seems like we're more frugal with these funds and get more bang for our buck and my personal experience. yeah, i think that the, it's an interesting idea that homelessness is a community problem. right. and that our city and our state and the federal government are part of that community. and they should be participating with the rest of the community. at a certain level, it has to be a healthy combination of both. you know, it's a community problem or it's

a god's kingdom problem and the government's part of that to a guys i'm here with daryl. we were out at the revive. 66 camp ground, about 44 and a half weeks ago. and daryl got hit by a car and it's still recovering in the hospital. but the good news today is that in 6 days, next monday he's going to move in to eat and village to his permanent home. you want a whole lot of minorities series for several years now. 3 years and 2 months that's way here. it was in 3 weeks after darrell got hit by a car just right out here in almost the same spot. another person coming towards the camp ground that was pushing a wheelchair got hit by a car, and that car continued to drive on. the police are still searching for the person

involved in the hit and run. and we realized that we had to do something. so that night we went and we purchased daily d blinking lights and we started paying our residents and the ability to come out here to the camp ground and help people cross the street so that we didn't see any more accidents. thank you very much. you have a good night if you have another one of our residents, miranda in 2017 got hit by a car on this same road. what we found is that it's not uncommon over the last 12 years of working with people that are chronically homeless. i probably know of at least 12 people that have been hit by cars. so after darrell and preacher got hit by cars, we drove from the interstate 3.3 miles to the nearest north south cross walk. everything else keeps you on the south side and doesn't allow you

to come to this side of the road. and so we think that people with disabilities, people that are coming here or living here, have a right to be able to cross over in a safe way that alerts traffic that they're moving across the road and be able to, to get around town. we wanted to be a part of helping slowed the traffic down to helping make people aware that people might be crossing the road. and then we reached out to the highway department and requested a cross walk. we've requested it in a way that we would incur most of the costs. they just have to do the traffic surveys. so they've been doing that over the last week and hopefully we'll see across walk out here soon. hey, how are you? my name is nataline or even village and we were supposed to have somebody that was homeless moving into the village today. i

i use i i i pulled it up, found him in here after i've been looking for him for 2 days. it's kelly and the last name is oshea. o s h e a. so he's not getting out today. okay, cool. yeah, i get it and i appreciate you guys. thanks man. so we basically just talked to an officer at the window and found out that instead about catch and release type situation and scheduling out a court date, the judge decided to hold him and he's gonna do time for his probation violation and a d,

w. i that he had and hadn't showed up to court for and so we're thinking 3 to 6 months. the good news is that we know that he's safe and that he'll move. he'll come out of this in 3 to 6 months with a clean slate. all those charges are going to be taken care of and we'll try to get him a home. then the bad news is kelly's not moving indeed, and village today for obvious legal reasons. you know, we try have people take care of these kinda outstanding charges that build up when you're living on the streets. and sometimes it works out really, really clean, where we're able to help them and then sometimes like this, you've got to do the time for the crime. and so today's that day fortelli and he's got a little bit of a road ahead of him before he could move in to the village. hopefully i brought an empty car. that's awesome. thank you very much. you're welcome. okay,

nice taking care of you. i was on tried to stay on everybody's oh, i'm the way ever. no, i don't know. i hit my head so hard on and with most people i consider family. are anybody blood related to me? i it was just people that gave me a loved ones for when i need everybody here. every single person that lives here has a piece of my heart and i will do whatever i can to help them encourage them. let them be there for them, because i know they'll do the same for me. we're family, we're a family. and for some people that live here, they've never had a family or had family members that really cared about them to saw. but it was in the disguise to limit for me right now. i mean,

i have the opportunity to grow and keep on growing and i'm older and i'm a grandparent now. so mean, i don't mean grow as far as age and stuff like that. been growing shod mentally. you know, of a live in my, my life and being responsible and for it and my wife and me and our grandkids, you know, when they did come down, be able to spoil them all human beings. and we're all here. we're the same, same common goal and purpose, and that's to continue on with the human race and to continue to create and develop and make things better for the human race. and you're leaving people straggling behind out here in the middle of the woods with nothing to eat, no clean clothes, no running water. now exactly doing the best we can for everybody. and the best thing we can do is to give back and to continue to help those who are less fortunate because in the end,

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