Born in 1967, Doug came to Jesus on Easter Sunday at Pisgah Baptist Church in Excelsior Springs, Missouri when he was six years old. Doug's dad, Bob Perry, was his pastor growing up. Soon after the family moved to Mexico to be missionaries for the Foreign Mission Board of the Southern Baptist Convention. Doug grew up a minority, learning Spanish playing in the streets, seeing Christians up remote villages who were happy - even when they had nothing but Jesus. He's never been a sucker for the "American dream" that a bigger house and a boat will make you happy. It was a great childhood filled with amazing sights and pyramids and mountains and lakes and artisans and so much more.
In 1980 they moved back to Excelsior Springs. In 1985 he went to college. In 1989 he got into the business world. In 1991 he started a Master's degree in Education. In 1992 he started another business. In 1993 he left it behind and finished his Master's. In 1994 he worked at a college running the residence halls and judicial affairs. In 1997 he started another business. In 2001 he started a dot com business. In 2005 his business was the #4 fastest growing company in Kansas City, named "Top 25 under 25 Employees" and twice named the most family friendly company in Kansas City. At they peak it was doing about $225,000 per month. And it's all dung.
On November 23, 2004, at a small home group in Kansas City, while people prayed for him, Doug begged to see through the eyes of Jesus. He knew that churchianity was messed up, and he knew God had called him to serve Him, and he knew he didn't know what to do. He prayed the stupidest prayer he's ever heard of anybody praying. He prayed, "Lord, I don't care what it costs, my life, my business, my reputation, my wife, my kids, prison, torture, I don't care. I just want to be the most dangerous person on the planet to satan." Now, he didn't mean it in a competitive way or out of bravado, but a sincere desire to make up for lost time, no matter what it took. And God gave him a vision of how bad things are and how much we need to hurry. (You can watch that here.) And it wrecked his life.
Then all kinds of crazy stuff happened and his life started vibrating and pieces started rearranging. Some fell off. New ones dropped in. His business became a ministry. At one point, Jesus showed up - in person. (You can watch that here.) Then the Lord said walk away from the business and just do ministry. Then he drove around the country homeless for awhile, learning to hear the voice of God and trust Him for everything. (You can watch that here.) Then he wrote a bunch of books (Here.) and started on YouTube (Here.) Then he started a homeless shelter, that sort of morphed into a Christian community. Then a food pantry. Then in 2015 it all moved to Excelsior Springs where they got a 67 acre farm with a 20 acres cave under it (Here). Then a bunch of mobile homes when zoning wouldn't let them live on the land. Then a thrift store and food pantry and "community storehouse." (Here.) To date they've given away over 8,000,000 pounds of food - one minivan load at a time. In 2024 the retail value of the food they gave away was over $2,000,000. All of this while living on faith, no government grants and regular resistance from city, county, zoning, churches and the snake from the Garden.
Even though it's been 20 years. This is just the beginning. Doug's vision and commission is MUCH larger, including to get The Bride on the proper foundation and get her through Tribulation. We believe there is some revelation and wisdom here that you may not here anywhere else - unless you have a clear pipeline to The Throne. Please stick around and see if something here can't get your motor running faster. If you want to help, there's a donate button up there. We are HYPER efficient dollar for dollar. No one gets a salary, including Doug. Everyone at the thrift store is a volunteer, living simply and trusting God for everything. It turns out, there is enough JUNK in the garages and storage units of America to fund just about any ministry you need to do.
We've still got a long way to go. We believe then when everything falls apart there will be a safe zone around Kansas City. If you can get here, we'll make room for you. Sadly, the Bride is SO FAR from being ready to be equally yoked to Jesus that everything we've built is going to have to be torn down and put back the right way. (Here)