"Be genuine
about the
cause. If your
heart isn’t it,
don’t try it."
studio. I asked him would he listen to some music
I had recorded. He listened to it, and decided that
we should do something together. We did the
song, "Where are you?." While I was living in my
car I was writing “Where are you?” That’s how the
song was birthed. When that lady asked me what
I did, I said I wrote a song for the homeless.
Rebecca Lopez of WFAA in Dallas heard that and
said she wanted to do a story about it. I shared
the song with her. After it aired on the news
people started to ask me to tell my story at their
churches.
God reminded me that I asked him to tell me what
he wanted me to do. I kept hearing the word,
homelessness. I realized that I had been homeless
mentally all my life. I had so many addresses
growing up that I didn’t realize that it was a form
of instability. My new life is helping the homeless.
We partner with 1011 Grill (Dewayne Bryant and
Desmond Patterson) each month to bring the
homeless food and entertain and love on them.
How has your impact as a community leader
influenced support for the Where are you?
Homeless Outreach?
Bryant and Patterson have partnered with my
ministry for 4 years to feed the homeless. As a
community, we serve once a month. As an
individual, I do it regularly. My daughter attends
Booker T. Washington, near a homeless
community. I bring them things like food and
clothes when I take her to school.
We have recruited volunteers from day one. The
first event we did we had 100 volunteers. On our
team we have about 60 people who have
been faithful. They started with me from a post I put on
Facebook. They have been there since. To volunteer you
can go through the website, Instagram, and Facebook. We
have a volunteer form that you can complete.
Besides your work as a homeless advocate, what other
roles do you play in the community?
I am on the radio every Friday, I communicate every free
event that is going on in the community so I talk about my
monthly event.
I am the Where are you? reporter for KHVN. You can come
on every Friday to talk about what’s going on with your
ministry and outreach programs. I have been a makeup
artist for about 30 years. I am also a stylist and interior
designer.
People started asking me to come and host events. I have
hosted a hundred events in the past 2 years. I am very free
and have no fear of anything. I have no worries and
concerns so when I get on a microphone, I am free. I tell
people that they can be free in the Lord.
What advice do you have for moms who want to serve
others by starting their own ministry or nonprofit?
I would say just start. Don’t think about it. When I started
my homeless outreach, I said I am going to do a homeless
event. I didn’t have what I needed so I decided I was going
to just ask for it. I needed the place and the volunteers.
You have to just jump out there. People know when you
are sincere. Be genuine about the cause. If your heart isn’t
it, don’t try it. If it’s sincere, it will last forever. If it is not it
will fade out.
Do you want your children to follow in your footsteps as
a nonprofit leader?
With my daughter, who is a junior in high school, she
donates a percentage of the sales of her fragrance to the
outreach. She teaches the other young people how to
serve when they come. When people bring their kids my
daughter teaches them how to smile, how to hug, how to
serve them. My son, who is a sophomore at York College
in Nebraska, has a gift for children. He is going to school to
be a teacher. He is what I call a child magnet. Even as a
little boy children would cling to him. A child would come
up to him and say, " Hey." It was everywhere we went.
Even in Nebraska, he is the head teacher over P.E.
because the children keep asking for him. He started out
as an alternate. I told him that God is going to use him in
children’s lives.
Where do you see your homeless ministry in 5 years?
In 5 years, we will have a building. It will blow people’s