Born into poverty in Georgia. Cutting grass at eight. Holding the accounts at ten — assigning yards to the other kids and splitting the take.
Baling pine straw at $2.35 a bag and selling it a hundred bags at a time 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.
Somewhere in there a teenager got on his knees and asked God for one thing: that he would not have to live the way his parents lived.
The pattern
He has never held a degree, a license, or a title. And he changed the world around us in three different industries.
That is the proof, not the point. The long version lives at jasondutchbrown.com.
The idea he set down
He wanted it built so cleanly that people would look at it and think: if that's what God is, that's what I want to be.
He knew the fast way to fund it — leverage people's faith to open their wallets. He refused it. A thing built to be pure cannot be built on manipulation.
So he set it down. Stopped thinking about it. And told God plainly that if this was supposed to open, he would have to be shown.
