The Story
From engineering, to the pulpit, to giving away hundreds of cars.
After graduating from Texas A&M in 1998 with a degree in Mechanical Engineering, Blake spent time in the automotive industry before making a major shift into ministry. He earned a Master of Theology from Dallas Theological Seminary and spent the next seventeen years pastoring at Grace Bible Church in College Station, Texas, where he founded the church's first multi-site campus, Southwood.
It was there that Blake met family after family trapped by unreliable cars, single parents who couldn't get to work, school, or the doctor when their vehicle broke down, and who were then preyed on by predatory lenders and dishonest dealers. He watched honest, hard-working people slide toward eviction, homelessness, and generational poverty over something as fixable as a car.
