For those who asked.
StudiO 914 is creating the website for Help End Local Poverty. Lindsey who went to Africa is doing the branding. Both of these cats rock at what they do. And they are tag-teaming this project for HELP. It’s a huge blessing. If you need some work done call them.
Also…
Kayla who is a financial analyst for Dell will be overseeing the finances for HELP. If you need music advice or tech advice call Kayla-she knows her stuff. Now everyone can breath better knowing that yours truly will not be dealing with money issues. Bankruptcy avoided before we even started 
John G will be our trip coordinator and he is going to work with HELP on a semi part-time basis. He works for Farmers Insurance and is a big time gamer and coffee drinker so we should have lots of fun.
John and Kayla both went to Africa with me this past year. So all four of us are working hard trying to accomplish something significant and long-term. I’m really proud of the team. We really wanted to avoid the 10-day adventure trip scenario.
I’m now in the process of creating a board for the organization. Jeff Foust, my good friend and attorney has already agreed to be on the board. So when I get arrested or get us in some sort of trouble he will bail me out pro-bono-I hope!
So I need at least two more board members. I’m looking for them now. They need to be sharp, passionate and love God. I want the board to push the organization to the limits, but with wisdom. We are dreaming big. Because the needs are big.
I really would love for a volunteer administrative person to be involved in the not-so-distant-future. Someone who loves admin and doesn’t suck at it like I do.
We are currently working on:
1. Art Show for April.
2. Benefit Concert for May (you ready Jesse?)
3. Summer Trips. (You know you wanna go)
4. And booking places to speak. I need partners. If you’re interested please email me and we can chat. We will do house shows, small groups, churches, youth events etc.
5. Compilations CD with various artist. All proceeds will go to our Zim 150 project.
Failure will definitely be apart of the ministry. I’m sure we will take two-steps forward one-step back. And all these plans may not work out. I’m cool with that.
I do hope to spend this July in S. Africa with my entire family for at least half-the-time.
And we will expand to many countries in the future. But we also believe in slow progress as we want to focus on a few projects. Plus I want to do ministry with people I can do life with. That is how I define partnership.
We do have some possibilities to work in Alaska in the near future. And I think some really cool partnerships will develop in Egypt this March. Servlife is working in Uganda/Sudan now and I think there will be future possibilities with that.
Our vision is quite simple. We want to partner with local leaders or missionaries who are partnering with local leaders and assist them. We will define this further, but we want to create long-term partnership that will cause real change. This is a grassroots movement starting from scratch. Vista is helping with a bit of seed money. Other then that we are going to take this one day at a time.
You ready to help?
At this point, 100% of all donations will be given to the local leader/missionary on the ground. Admin costs are being covered in other ways.
talk to me.
we’re here.
waiting.