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Dream Big Podcast with Bob Goff and Friends

Finding Hope in the Dark with Kevin Kelly

Dream Big Podcast with Bob Goff and Friends

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Talk Radio, Religion & Spirituality, Christianity

4.81.9K Ratings

🗓️ 15 May 2024

⏱️ 23 minutes

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Summary

Kevin Kelly shares his journey from a life of crime and incarceration to finding faith and serving the poor and marginalized. He emphasizes the importance of meeting and learning from people in difficult circumstances, as they can be our teachers. Kevin and his wife Molly run Basic Ministry, a nonprofit that feeds and supports the homeless in Los Angeles. They also work with The Last Mile, teaching coding and audio-video production to incarcerated individuals to help them gain marketable skills. Kevin's ultimate goal is to continue serving the poor and expanding Basic Ministry's impact. Connect with Kevin on Instagram: @brotherboston Basic Ministry: @basic.137 Connect with Bob: @bobgoff

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Hey everybody, welcome to the Dream Big Podcast.

0:11.0

Hope it's been a great week for you. This is a place where we can have conversations

0:15.2

with just a wide array of friends that are approaching life in different ways.

0:21.6

As a reflection of their life experiences, as a reflection of their life experiences as a reflection of

0:25.1

their love of God is their reflection of the way that they love the people around

0:29.3

them and I love love love to include new friends that you haven't met before and Kevin Kelly is one of them.

0:37.3

Kevin and I met in a gated community.

0:40.3

Yeah. Yeah. Gold Sand Quentin and we've met quite a few years ago and he's just one of those

0:49.2

standouts there's been several guys that have been a part of what's going on in San Quentin that have been my teachers.

0:57.2

They haven't learned a thing for me, but have been my teachers in this path.

1:00.8

And so I just love to introduce you to Kevin here a little bit about his story because Jesus like spent a weird amount of time saying that if you want to meet me you got to find hungry people thirsty people sick people strange people

1:14.4

naked people and people in jail and it wasn't about just doing a solid for people who are

1:19.6

hungry or thirsty or sick or strange or in jail but that these would actually be our teachers.

1:25.0

Like you want to meet Jesus, it ain't going to happen

1:28.0

unless you meet these people in these places.

1:32.0

And so then Kevin popped into the room. I would say he bounced in like Tigger, but Kevin could break me into pieces. He's a super nice guy, but he's just like one of those really sturdy friends.

1:45.9

He is now out and welcome to the podcast, Kevin.

1:50.4

Thanks for having me, Bo.

1:51.4

It's good to be.

1:52.0

Hey, tell us a little bit about your journey.

1:55.0

We don't need to talk about all the things in specific that landed you at St. Quentin,

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