The first employee Gary McReynolds ever hired, he met at an altar call in a county jail — a former bank executive everyone had written off. Today that man owns his own business.

In Part 2, Gary turns from his story to yours, and the message is three words: stop stepping over people. The veterinarian who lost everything. The meth cook now serving as a minister. The mother bonded out of jail whose daughter just turned three. Gary breaks down what actually works — discipleship over recovery talk — why the nine-month program is free by design, and how Market Street Coffee funds it all. Then he opens the door: come for a week, get in the trenches, and build it where you live. You’re one person away.

YOU’LL HEAR

● “I’d like to join you — how much does it pay?” and the real cost of building something that lasts

● The jail-cell salvation that became his first hire — a Wells Fargo executive turned prodigal

● The veterinarian, and learning to see the person God is highlighting in the room

● Thousands through a nine-month residential program — from bank robbers to a girl with three DUIs in a week

● The young woman who’d never been inside a church, and where she’d ended up by 19

● The real numbers: 50% who finish, 80% who stay connected to the body

● Why it’s free by design — no Medicaid, no crisis-bed dollars, income they create themselves

● James, cooking meth in a bathtub two years ago and now serving as an associate minister

● Predestined — seeing people the way God made them, not the way sin left them

● Inside the nine months: 5:30 wake-ups, Proverbs, chores, and Phase Two

● Why 85% of the staff came up through the program

● Mission trips around the world vs. the motel across the railroad tracks

● Market Street Coffee — the $7 cup that bridges two demographics and funds Hannah’s Home

● You’re one person away — the open invitation to come learn the model and build it yourself

SCRIPTURE REFERENCEDLuke 10:25–37 (the Good Samaritan — the man already in the inn), Matthew 9:37–38 (the harvest is plentiful, the workers few), John 4:35 (lift up your eyes — the fields are white), Romans 8:29–30 (foreknown and predestined)

RESOURCES

● Ekklesia Declared! — https://a.co/d/0fkrigsy

● Ekklesia Infused! — https://a.co/d/0gdii5A0

● Choose Life — https://a.co/d/069OtMTN

● Choose Life Workbook — https://a.co/d/06vseuNH

● First Place Ministries Website — https://www.firstplaceministries.com

● Support the Ministry via PayPal — https://www.paypal.com/donate/?hosted_button_id=82WSYT9FXJ9CY

● Connect with Caliatra — https://www.facebook.com/Chaplaincaliatra

● GUEST — Regenesis Recovery Center (Gary McReynolds) — https://www.regenesislife.org

MENTIONED IN THIS EPISODE

● Gary McReynolds — Regenesis Recovery Center (RegenesisLife.org)

● Market Street Coffee — the ministry’s coffee shop on Market Street

● Hannah’s Home — residential home for women and mothers

● TLV (Tree of Life Version) — the Scripture translation Rolland uses

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