God doesn't make mistakes.
That's why you are here.
Somebody along the way invested in you. Now it's time to return the favor.
The Mustard Seed puts young people into skilled trades — mentorship, training, scholarships, and a real way in.
Look down. Look around.
Look at what's holding you up.
Somebody laid the roof over the air conditioning you never think about.
Somebody welded the bridge you drove over this morning.
Somebody ran the lights, the water, and the power through the walls.
Somebody poured the foundation under the room you're sitting in.
That's infrastructure. Poured, framed, wired, covered. Nobody sees it. Everybody stands on it. But infrastructure isn't only buildings — people get built the same way. Somebody pours a foundation into a kid before there's anything standing on it. Somebody frames him. Somebody covers him.
Poured into.
Planted in faith.
Purposeful in a community.
That's what a mustard seed is. The smallest thing anybody ever put in the ground, holding up everything that came after. Somebody poured into you.
Here's what one of them actually pays
Here's one of them.
Electrical
You run power into buildings that don't have it yet and fix it in the ones that do. Most days you're working off prints on a site that isn't finished, or in somebody's basement finding out why half the house went dark. Everything anybody plugs in went through hands like yours first.
- Starting out
- $39,430
- Median
- $62,350
- Experienced
- $106,030
U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics, Occupational Employment and Wage Statistics, May 2024 (national). Starting out = 10th percentile. Median = 50th. Experienced = 90th. Annual. Georgia figures to be added alongside national. SOC 47-2111. Real numbers only — never estimated, never rounded up.
How you start: a four-year apprenticeship. You are paid from the first day of it.
Our founder was one of those kids.
Born into poverty in Georgia. Cutting grass at eight. Holding the accounts at ten. Baling pine straw at $2.35 a bag and selling it to the landscapers at his church.
He quit school when his father fell off a ladder and broke his back. Took a GED. Went to work. Handed the money to the family.
He has never held a degree, a license, or a title. And he changed the world around us in three different industries.
The rest of it →I had people who invested in me and believed in me long before I ever knew my own worth.
I'm still talking about them to this day.
Which one are you?
Pick your door.
I'm a young person
Find your trade. We'll help you get in.
I want to give
Fund a scholarship path, and the people who stay with these kids.
I run a business
Your customer reviews can fund this.
I'm with a church
Bring this to the young people in your congregation.
Or share a memory of the person who believed in you first.
The Genesis Moment
Somebody bet on him first.
Every trades business in America has a person behind it that nobody names. The guy who handed over a truck. The boss who kept him on through six useless months. The uncle who co-signed.
The story that gets told is the one about grit. It is almost never the whole truth.
The Genesis Moment is a podcast that goes and gets the rest of it — home service business owners, on the record, about the person who believed in them before they had earned it.
Fifty of those is not a podcast. It's proof.
The Genesis Moment
MeetEmmy
The trades are paying to build the trades.
Somebody's worst morning. A tree through the roof, a line burst, no heat in January.
A company answers, shows up, and fixes it. The customer writes down what happened.
MeetEmmy turns that review into funding for a young person's way into the trade — and the young person goes to work for a business exactly like the one that just got reviewed.
The money came out of the trades. It goes back into the trades.
Nobody had to be asked for anything.
How it worksThe podcast finds the people who were once the kid. The Mustard Seed finds the kid.
The trades pay for it, and the kid goes back into the trades.
One more thing
Somebody did it for you once.
Give once or monthly, in whatever amount you choose.