Building Hope: Tiny Homes and Community Transformation with Dignity Park

Imagine turning a vision for compassionate community transformation into a reality. That's exactly what our guest Keith is doing with Dignity Park, an initiative aimed at providing dignified housing solutions for the homeless through the innovative use of tiny homes. Our enlightening discussion with Keith takes us on a journey through his dedication to building these homes, the critical partnerships needed to sustain them, and the custom designs that can integrate into local neighborhoods. His commitment to crafting rather than managing these facilities underscores a collaborative, entrepreneurial spirit in combating homelessness.

We turn our attention to how businesses, particularly those in the shed industry, can extend their impact from offering mere storage solutions to fostering true community building. The tiny homes discussion isn't just about minimalist living; it's a call to action against the stark backdrop of homelessness in Texas. Through stories of innovation and charity, we uncover how these enterprises can contribute to society's well-being, serving as a beacon of hope and practical support for those in need.

But beyond the creation of homes, we examine the deeper societal issues intertwined with homelessness, such as the cycle of incarceration and addiction. Keith and I delve into the importance of rehabilitation, programs supporting vulnerable populations, and the financial logic of providing housing over allowing individuals to remain unhoused. This episode is a powerful reminder that our endeavors, whether in business or personal pursuits, should always intertwine with compassion and service, as we close with a heartfelt prayer for our guest, our listeners, and all those striving to make a difference.

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Transcript

Shed Geek: 0:37

Hey folks, welcome back to episode number two of two with customs sheds by Keith. We hope you enjoyed part one. If you missed it, just go back and listen. It'll be the previous podcast. It would have come out on Wednesday. You're listening to the Thursday show now. Appreciate your dedication and allowing us long-winded folks to turn this into a two-part series. It was a lot of fun talking to Keith down in the DFW area and I thought he had a really good story, so I hope you enjoy All right. So, keith, tell me a little bit about. We left off on talking about being charitable. You talked about the caboose and being able to take that to the Children's Hospital, and it seems like you've really got a heart for that sort of thing. So tell me a little bit about Dignity Park. We've talked a little bit about this, but I'd love for the audience to hear more about this and I'd really love for the DFW area to really hear about this. I feel like this is an awesome idea.

Keith From: 1:41

Well, dignity Park is a vision that God put on my heart about four years ago. It's a proposed planned community for homeless. So what my vision is is tiny homes, so like 12 by 20, there'll be 12 by 20, fully furnished, finished out, kitchen, bathroom, tiny homes, and if you did a full, and again I call it Dignity Park and you can be called whatever you want. But you know, and so let's say that we did a Dignity Park with anywhere from 25 to 100 units. We have a community center in the middle of it that might have a small auditorium that could be used as a teaching center, as a sanctuary inside the community center can also have, maybe, small offices that counselors from the city or whomever can come and talk to people one on one, have computers in there. Maybe the other half of the community center can be a full kitchen.

Keith From: 2:59

So everybody can come together and have a meal together. So that's that's, you know, big picture, that's Dignity Park.

Shed Geek: 3:09

So are you thinking permanent housing, temporary housing, what comes to mind?

Keith From: 3:17

So, first off, let me let me preface that by saying I'm a builder. I'm not someone that could run a homeless facility. Would not do anybody any good for me to try to run this. But I know how to build and I know how I want to build it. It would be, and so I'm looking to, I would like to partner with a community, with a church, that, as we build it, they run it.

Keith From: 3:47

And but yes, to answer your question, it can be both. It could be permanent housing, it can be temporary housing while someone's getting on their feet. It can be whatever it needs to be. Yeah, now it's, it's, but it's not just individuals that are homeless, it's also families. So we've also designed a two bedroom family tiny home as well. We've. You know when, when, when we first started, or when I first, when God first gave me this vision, we first thing I did was create a website for it and we did renderings dignityparkcom. We've also got a Facebook, dignity Park, but that and so we came up with renderings and what we thought would work well as far as a tiny home and tiny community would go. But the thing is is, because of the customization, because of custom sheds by Keith, we can build, we can build it to blend into a neighborhood architecture of a neighborhood. So so the renderings and stuff that you see on the website and the Facebook page, you know it's not that or nothing, that's just a, that's just an idea For sure.

Shed Geek: 5:03

Yeah, makes a lot of sense.

Shed Geek: 6:15

We said the Lord, put this on your heart. You know, there is a responsibility that we have as we attain success, as we attain opportunity for ourselves. How do you combat the oh, I don't know. It's easy to get in your head and say, well, these folks should go out and work for their self. They should go out and make it happen. How do you combat sort of like the naysayers?

Keith From: 6:45

Well, I don't, you know, I don't. I haven't come across any naysayers to tell you the truth, okay? Or if they did, they didn't voice it to me Sure. But yes, I'm sure there is, and you know quite honestly, and I can say this that you know, let's say 30 years ago, when I was younger yeah, I had that thought. Well, you know pull yourself up up.

Keith From: 7:12

Pull yourself up from your bootstraps and let's go take care of it.

Keith From: 7:16

But you know, as life goes on, I've realized that sometimes we need help.

: 7:22

Yeah, and I know I need help sometimes and so that's where I'm coming from with that.

Shed Geek: 7:30

So I know that you would like to see partnership with other entities local communities that would get around and idea and support this. Have you looked into other cities that have done this?

Keith From: 7:43

Absolutely there's so, and there's lots of places that have done this, and let me say that this is not my idea. This is not a novel concept. Okay, gotcha, you know I had seen it before, but until you know, this idea touched me. I didn't really think about it. You know, it was just God saying hey, Keith, you don't have to go do something. This is what I want you to do.

Shed Geek: 8:07

That's right. Yeah, faith without works is dead. You got to get up and do something right. You got to make something happen.

Keith From: 8:14

But no, there's even Dallas, so Dallas has what they call City Park and it's. I believe they've got like 28 units, smaller units, they don't have full running water and all that. It's just basically just a small little 8x10 room. Okay, okay, but I'm not putting down what anybody has done.

Keith From: 8:36

Sure I mean they have done a phenomenal job of doing what they've done. Yeah, so let me tell you a little bit about what's happened down in I believe it was Austin. A couple of years ago, three or four years ago, the city of Austin really cracked down on homeless and we're going through and bulldozing encampments and things like that and basically running the homeless out of the city. There's an organization that was called Loaves and Fishes, a nonprofit organization that would feed the homeless. Then, when all that started happening, they formed and I can't remember the name of it now, but immediately they started getting donations of RVs and campers and things like that and started building some tiny houses to start housing the homeless. They've got a big master plan and they keep adding and adding and adding to their facility. So they've done it. There's places in Alaska that have done it Oregon, Washington state. Yes, it's being done, but there's not enough. Yeah, in my opinion.

Shed Geek: 9:56

So what comes to mind for me is like whenever somebody hears Tiny Home, it's easy to watch all the different TV programs that promote Tiny Home and talk about Tiny Home. There's a Tiny Home festival every year. We wanted to make it last year to Colorado.

Keith From: 10:16

Oh really.

Shed Geek: 10:16

We didn't get a chance to make it. I would love to get some booth space out there and eventually just go out there and be able to interview people who own Tiny Homes, interview people who build Tiny Homes. The beautiful thing about the shed industry is you kind of serve two purposes. You can build a structure for surplus right.

Shed Geek: 10:37

But then you can also build a structure for minimalistic Right and so those who want to downsize. So we really get to capture both sides of the market and thinking about even like what you do here with Big Blue right, like being able to pull this around. A lot of times people will see a Tiny Home and they'll say, well, it's really just a smaller home, but the price per square foot is similar to that of a larger home. But I think what you're talking about is not, you know, not top of the line amenities, right? No, absolutely not.

Shed Geek: 11:11

Something that creates shelter and shelter and comfort and just the name itself, something that is dignified, right, something that has it, can allow you to have dignity, something that can allow you to, as a person, regardless of why you're homeless and trying to be the one to come in and say, hey, I want to fix everything Right and I want to analyze all the areas that got you in this situation. We want to allow you to have dignity with shelter, which is a basic need.

Shed Geek: 11:45

So, all right, perfect. So yeah, you're allowing somebody to just have dignity and you've got this cool, this cool little book here, like I definitely want people to see this and maybe we can take a couple screenshots of it and you can download this off of DignityParkcom.

Shed Geek: 12:00

Perfect, there we go, just go check it out. You guys should go look at it because I think it's a it's it's an awesome effort. So dignity, the state or quality of being worthy of honor or respect, a sense of pride in oneself, self-respect, park, an area devoted to a specific purpose, an area of land having facilities for rest and recreation. And then you've spelled out community here, a feeling of fellowship with others as a result of sharing common attitudes, interest and goals. Really, what we're doing here today building community right, having common interest and goals, whether it be through Sheds, podcasting or ministry kind of what we're trying to establish and what. What I feel like you're bringing to the table there is you're saying, hey, I'm not trying to be the counselor, I'm not trying to be the minister, I'm not trying to be the community leader, but I am trying to use my expertise, my knowledge and the gifts that God's given me to sort of serve this aspect of it.

Keith From: 13:00

Right, uh, is that is that accurate? That's that, and you know to to uh who. Much is given, much is required. Yeah, and so, uh, I've been given so much that, uh, that I'm required. I feel like I'm required to do this. My, I mean I want to do this but uh, at the same time I must give back to this.

Shed Geek: 13:21

At one point I had gotten the URL uh, shed, get care and I thought, man, there's got to be a way that we can like tithe towards a process of helping people in the community, whatever opportunities like this come up.

Shed Geek: 13:33

We just interviewed, uh, some lovely ladies down in uh, um, angus, uh and uh, they sell sheds and, and just a simple idea of being a single mother and understanding how hard it is to kind of do something as simple as just getting a Christmas tree while you're and they said, hey, we want to give away a Christmas tree. And we, they created a situation where people could nominate, um, and, and I just told them I said, hey, I want to, I want to, I want to nominate or not nominate, but at least donate. Right, I want to, you know, fund a Christmas tree this year, because I feel like it's great whenever we can do this. I feel like it, I feel like what it does is. It sets us apart in the shed industry that, regardless if we compete or not, we sort of, whenever people think of a shed or a shed dealer, shed manufacturer, something positive comes to mind.

Keith From: 14:24

Absolutely. I mean well, I mean you know in, in, not not just the shed community, any community. You know, a commit, a community of plumbers community? And electricians, but coming together for a common goal is what we need to do.

Shed Geek: 14:39

Man, you've went really through this with the, with the pamphlet here that you've created.

Keith From: 14:44

Well, I appreciate it. The again, I'm into over information. No, that's but this is good and I've even I've got a second PDF online also that breaks down pricing. So Texas.

Shed Geek: 14:56

Texas rates, fourth in the United States for the highest population of homeless. Correct Texas homeless population, approximately 27,487, and then the DFW area, 65,976,597.

Keith From: 15:12

So that's it's, and that's actually I believe that's two year old data. Okay, I believe we're up to about 8,000 now.

Shed Geek: 15:20

I can't speak on homelessness, it was. It was not a ministry that God had called to my heart, not that it's, it's not obviously a worthy cause. Uh, prison ministry was something he'd put on my heart heavy at one point and I really got heavy into the data. So, um, when you think of, when you think of, it's easy to just lock them up and throw away the key.

Shed Geek: 17:16

So, yeah, I had looked at the data. I was really heavy at looking at the data and realized, yes, lock them up, throw away the key. I get the mentality, but we, we, we house 25% of the world's prison population in America and and you know I've been called all the things you know.

Keith From: 17:37

Well, america is, america is number one in in incarcerations.

Shed Geek: 17:41

Yeah, yeah, absolutely I have it, since I've been.

Shed Geek: 17:45

I've been called all the things hug a thug, bleeding heart, liberal, you name, it doesn't matter what it is and and I just I feel like I've experienced what I tell people is I've experienced a gap, a love, and a gap a love is love beyond measures, love beyond understanding.

Shed Geek: 18:01

When we put our own human brain and mindset to this and we said, we said we just doesn't make sense to love someone beyond that. And I've experienced that. I feel like I've experienced that the foot of the cross, through the love of Christ, and and and I believe that you know, like 80% of those are nonviolent criminals. So I'm a big fan of rehabilitation over retribution and and I just, I just think that if that makes me look like a hug a thug or whatever people want to call me, I'm, I'm okay with that, because there is two thirds of the New Testament Bible written from a prison, right, and you know so. So that was a passion for me and I began to find in my research, keith, that addiction was a large part of the criminal enterprise, right, and I would just assume that addiction plays such a huge role in homelessness.

Keith From: 18:58

Well, there there's. There's a lot of factors, there's a lot of different reasons for homelessness. If you want to talk about statistics, one of the, I'll tell you about two things. One, there's a there's a wonderful facility in Oklahoma City called pivot, and what they do is they how they actually prevent homelessness. They house and help children that are aging out of the foster system. So they age out of the foster system, they have no place to go, and so pivot captures those children. And I mean, and they don't just deal with with those children, but they also have a youth center for for ages eight and up a safe place for them to go.

Keith From: 19:58

They've also. They also have 20 tiny homes. So when, whenever, whenever people are aging out of the foster system and graduating from high school, they don't have any place to go. So they put them in a tiny house and they teach them how to live. You know they, they, they have to have a job, they have to pay rent, but you know $50, $50, whatever, they have to contribute 10 hours to pivot. You know helping do things, but it teaches them how to, how to live. Yeah, it teaches them the things that you and I learned how to do through our parents.

Shed Geek: 20:37

Yeah.

Keith From: 20:39

The other statistic is college students. There is a uncounted population of college students that are homeless. They don't have a dorm. They live in their car at night or they sofa, serve friends couches During the day. They're at class or they spend the day at the library. The one thing they do have is a gym membership so they can take a shower and clean up. They live in their car.

Shed Geek: 21:11

Yeah, it's, it's. It's not a lot of times it's not as in your face.

Keith From: 21:16

It's exact and that's what I yeah, exactly. Yeah, I mean homelessness is not just the guy on the corner asking for change.

Shed Geek: 21:23

We found that. You know, I feel like we identify in a similar ministry and the reason I bring addiction up is is mainly because I feel like it's a it's a, it's a problem in our, in our country, and I believe that it oftentimes is the root source, addiction itself not being the grassroots problem Right and the causation. And in working in faith based drug and alcohol rehabilitation for a year, I found this to be true, that it wasn't always addiction is, as it was, more trauma, right, that was experienced and I know that to be the case, with addiction oftentimes leading into prison and homelessness. Everyone can can say, but there's always that one homeless guy that always took advantage of something that they remember. There's that one addict, there's that one person who went to prison, who, who just always lived that life.

Shed Geek: 22:18

Well and that's and that's true, but that does not serve as a standard for everyone, exactly. I think that your heart shows through in in the process and what you're the point that you're trying to get across. And let's just be clear this is not just about business.

Keith From: 22:35

No, absolutely not. Yeah, this, this, this is about about giving back and helping others. Yeah, yes, business does is involved in it. But and I want to be perfectly clear on that this is this. This is, this is partially business. Yeah but, but the motivator behind. It is not business.

Shed Geek: 22:56

Well, everybody uses their expertise to help, and even in church. If you're a sound guy, it's easy to become the sound guy. You know, if you have a spirit of motherhood, it's oftentimes used in the nursery right or whatever. It's just. You know, if you can do construction, you usually get questions about construction. That's just typically building.

Keith From: 23:16

Yeah, absolutely For the Christmas show.

Shed Geek: 23:18

Yeah, that's right, you know, and it's, it's almost kind of expected right, almost really, because it just sort of people.

Keith From: 23:24

see you here on Sunday To build the manger for us.

Shed Geek: 23:28

Don't forget to write your tools, that's right.

Keith From: 23:31

Talking about statistics. So a single homeless person costs the city, county government, whatever? Approximately 40,000 a year. Yeah, an unhoused person? Yeah, if we were to take that same person and put them in a tiny home, then they would only cost the system $20,000. Now that other $20,000, you know why is the only cost? Why does it cost half as much? Well, every time the police have to get called out for someone sleeping in the wrong place, being being homeless, you're out in the elements. So, you're going to get sick more often. Health care.

Keith From: 24:13

You're going to go to the health care, you're going to the hospital. All of these factors make up that other 20,000. Whereas if, if we were to put that person into a tiny home, they're only going to cost the system 20,000. If, if they don't do anything, if they don't get a job, if they don't do anything, the cost of a single tiny home is approximately $60,000. So we've built a tiny home for $60,000. It's going to pay for itself in three years and help people for decades.

Shed Geek: 24:48

So seems like a no brainer.

Keith From: 24:50

It seems like a no brainer yeah.

Shed Geek: 24:52

Well, same with same with with prison. 600,000 men and women get released from prison every year in America and those people go to your markets, they go to your churches, they go to your restaurants and I'll tell you what a lot of them you know are looking for jobs. And whenever they can't find jobs, that leads to that homeless population.

Shed Geek: 26:33

I don't want to tell this story. I had to call him out like this, but he's told his story before, so I don't mind. I mean, one of the greatest testimonies that I see is my marketing partner, Dylan, and you may not know Dylan, but for those that do, you know, I mean he raised in a good home and, you know, went down a reckless road and he admits that and it wasn't until he had lost everything and got kicked out of a faith-based drug and alcohol rehabilitation. He was sitting outside of McDonald's and he tells the story. He was getting ready to get ready to smoke a cigarette and he said I just realized that, like if I smoked that cigarette, that everything was coming back with it, not because, it was a cigarette.

Shed Geek: 27:22

The cigarette wasn't. You know his addiction. It was that it led down a lifestyle choice for him to just start to do that again.

Shed Geek: 27:30

So it wasn't an inherently the cigarette, just to be clear, it was more the mentality. And you know this guy went out and you know God changed his life and he's got on fire for the Lord and for his family and God restored his family and he's a very successful guy in our community now, sets on many boards, sets on, yeah, just different financial boards. I think he sets on, like our local mental health board, a couple different, couple different things. He's just a force in the community and I remember whenever he was starting he was had a job logging, because a lot of times that's the only job you can get. As a felon you can't get. You know people won't believe in you. And he said I realized I'm going to have to go out and make my self valuable, right, and it actually led to part of his success.

Shed Geek: 28:23

So, like where we look at like his downfall being the only thing that we can remember him by man, look at the comeback story, right, because he went and bought a camera from a pawn shop and he taught himself how to be a videographer.

Shed Geek: 28:35

Next thing, you know he's he's learning how to do cinnamon photo and he's doing weddings and he becomes the biggest booked wedding guy in our area. Next thing, you know he's having to build websites and different things because people are encouraging him to do other things where they're needing more services. Wow, he starts looking at that and he's running a full on marketing agency. And I remember just giving him a little bit of space in our, our shed that we were selling sheds out of at our shed lot, right, and he was getting started and he was a little bit worried to make the leap and not worried. But you know, I mean of course you're going to worry. Naturally you got a family and and this dude's just killing it. He's went and done such amazing things. Now he's an inspiration to many and tells the story and that just goes to show that God's not done with you.

Keith From: 29:18

No, no, and, and, and you know, and. That just proves the point that you know, I know. I know in my life I've made a lot of stupid decisions.

Shed Geek: 29:25

Oh, me too.

Keith From: 29:26

And. But the difference is just speaking for just speaking for myself. You know, the reason I didn't end up down the path of homelessness or anything like that was because you know I had a family, of network of people to say hey, keith, you're being stupid, stop, yeah when a lot of people don't have a network of of people to help them. Yeah, and so nor do a lot of people know where to get help.

Shed Geek: 29:58

But we all deserve the basic Absolutely Needs to be met, and you've really turned it around here by showing some some not just thought, but statistics that say this actually makes more sense financially. Yeah, so even if we fuel the idea of like they should go do it themselves, this is costing you less in taxes or whatever it is currently. You know what I mean, because we're spending that much anyway. So it's not just the right thing to do, it's the more economic more economical, responsible thing to do as well.

Keith From: 30:37

So I've actually taken meetings, I've been able to speak with the director of housing who handles the homeless in Fort Worth. I've talked to the director of the Tarrant County Homeless Coalition and basically what it boils down to is money, yeah, money, and, a lot of times, land. There's so many, and I'm not saying that a dignity park style solution is the only solution. Okay, we have to have lots of solutions in order to work the problem. We need the night shelters, we need the day shelters, we need it all.

Keith From: 31:26

Okay, but all the money and I'm just, I'm generalizing here- so please don't come down on me for this, but the money's allocated for all these other projects and I feel like there's not room for these new projects coming in, and so basically, it boils down to money. Yeah, we, just we, you know, if I so let's talk about a hundred unit dignity park, so 100 units, the community center, basketball court and things like that. 10 million dollars, okay, okay, would be about what it would cost to build that, and so yeah, yeah, it's there.

Shed Geek: 32:14

Now we know, now we know, now we know. Well, I hope, I certainly hope.

Keith From: 32:19

Please make checks payable to custom shifts. Yeah, yeah. It's that simple.

Shed Geek: 32:25

But I do hope that you find funding for this project.

Shed Geek: 32:29

I would love to see these projects, if they're not already happening, or find a way to connect you with others or become connected with others so that we can serve, through these opportunities, these ministries to be able to give back through our resources that we've been given, the information we've been given, the talents we've been given, whatever it looks like to be able to give back.

Shed Geek: 32:56

I think that's ultimately the message you know that we're trying to portray also here at the. The podcast is this it's not always just a talk about sheds, but it's funny how the shed kind of becomes the common denominator in these different adventures, like being able to end up in DFW. I'd love to find out other adventures out there like this that exist and and I don't know that we can give to all, but I know that we can give our time, our talents and our efforts to all and I think that those who are inspired by it, not just around the country, listen to the shed geek podcast, but even those who are inspired by this, this message in the DFW area, as, as you begin to grow your own network and and try to move this thing forward, I just hope it succeeds and I hope that the amount of resources become available that prove that even a small thought can turn into a really really large opportunity to help people.

Keith From: 33:54

I appreciate it and, like we were saying in the last episode, I need everybody's idea. When it comes to building sheds, we've taken on so many ideas from all my different carpenters. Like I said, I don't know how to run a homeless facility. I know how to build, so I need those experts who can point me in the right direction of how do I get money? Who is the right person to talk to?

Keith From: 34:23

How do we get through to the cities? Because it's not just Alice, fort Worth, I mean, it's every single city in Texas, every single city in the United States, some worse than others, but it's not.

Shed Geek: 34:36

But there's a need.

Keith From: 34:38

What do we say? We had half a million homeless people in the United States. That's half a million too many.

Shed Geek: 34:43

Well, maybe you inspire those who are also in the shed industry, who can provide their talents and services like this. We're talking about and create something that goes way beyond Build it in your community. Yeah, do it in your community, that's right. Build a dignity plan.

Keith From: 34:59

Again, doesn't have to be a dignity part, but build this concept in your community to help those people off the streets. Yeah, absolutely, just give them a chance. I feel like all any of us want is just a chance.

Shed Geek: 35:12

Everything you're doing, everything that I've seen from the transition that you had in advertising into the shed world, the shed space, building Big Blue, creating this mobile unit that you can take around and show to people and then to your heart for the homeless, and what's been put on your heart, I think it's awesome. I appreciate it. I think, you're just an awesome guy all the way around. It's a pleasure to have met you and to got to know you, and I'm wishing you nothing but success in all your endeavors.

Keith From: 35:51

Man, I appreciate it. I appreciate it very much. Again, I'm just a vessel to do what God tells me to do.

Shed Geek: 35:58

That's right. That's right, but you're doing a good job. All heart's clear, before we get out of here today, anything else that you want to add, anything else you want to say to the listeners today.

Keith From: 36:10

No, I appreciate the opportunity to be on here and talk to you. If you're in the Dallas Fort Worth area, ShedsbyKeithcom come to my Facebook page ShedsbyKeith. Even if I don't build you a shed, at least come take a look around and let me get you a quote.

Shed Geek: 36:25

Even those in the industry outside of DFW if they wanted to reach out to you.

Keith From: 36:29

Absolutely, they can reach out to me. I love to collaborate with others. If you've got a customer that wants to build something down here, or if I have a customer that wants to build something in your area. Collaborate, yeah, absolutely.

Shed Geek: 36:44

How cool would it be to see a podcast and somebody doing the same thing that you're doing in DFW and in Houston and then in Philly? Then, in Washington.

Keith From: 36:57

Absolutely. That's the thing. Again, the need is not just in Dallas, fort Worth. If somebody else has the same vision that I do, who's in another state or whatever, let's talk about it. Let's compare ideas and just make it happen.

Shed Geek: 37:12

Man, I think it's great. I love what you do and I've enjoyed my time here today. I want to pray over it, if that's okay, before we get out of here today. It's, I love what you do. I love big blue man. People have got to go check it out. Thanks a lot. We'll make sure to put a link in our newsletter that goes out every Wednesday and Thursday to the episode. We'll put a link to your website as well, where people can go and they can see your adventure. Maybe they can follow you on YouTube or wherever it is that you are.

Keith From: 37:38

I need 50 followers on YouTube so that I can go live straight from YouTube.

Shed Geek: 37:43

Yeah, there you go, so I need 50 people to please subscribe.

Keith From: 37:46

There's nothing there yet, but there will be, I promise.

Shed Geek: 37:49

We will subscribe ourselves so.

Keith From: 37:51

I appreciate you. Yeah, that's right.

Shed Geek: 37:53

Well, yeah, we'll get. All three of us will jump on there.

Shed Geek: 37:56

So we'll start yeah we'll get you a jumpstart. Let us pray, lord. Thank you for this day, the opportunity to just meet with like-minded folks who are about your work. I'm thankful for Keith and getting to know him as a friend and also as a fellow believer. I would ask that you would bless all of his endeavors, as his heart is kind to listen to what you've set forward in his path, that you would help him see it through and that the resources would just come abundantly towards this goal to help others, which is the call ultimately for us is to to know you, and we do that by knowing others and helping others in our actions, lord, and not just in our words. So I would ask that you would bless this endeavor. Let it move forward and let it just reach other people. Let it go on to tell about ministries that were created because of its creation. Just ask that you'd bless it, all of his endeavors.

Shed Geek: 39:02

All the listeners today in the DFW and area and around the nation. Bless the shed industries. We move forward and trying to promote your kingdom first, and then our business is second. Thank you, lord, in Jesus' name, amen.

Keith From: 39:16

Amen.