Hello, this is Joe. Most of you reading this already know me, but I just wanted to lay a background of why I’m doing this. Most of you know that my whole life I’ve been a go-getter and a very hard worker. I was a professional fighter when I was younger and the damage that I did to my brain would not become clear until I was in my 40s.

I have been recently diagnosed with Chronic Traumatic Encephalopathy (CTE) , and in the last three years, have begun to steadily show memory loss. I Have spent the last couple of years without a home, bouncing from living in the woods, in my car when i had one, and the last seven months in a warehouse with no running water or sewage.

I’m not a proud man and I don’t believe any work is beneath me, so I sold the last guitar I had and I bought a $1900 car so I could DoorDash. Even though this work is small, i began to feel good again until it all came to a screeching halt. It is clear now that the dealer sold me a bad car. The first month that I drove it, it broke down twice. First it was the fuel pump, and then one week later broke down and now it’s a cracked head. it’s gonna cost $2000 to $3000 to fix. I am currently sitting in a Walmart parking lot where I have been for a month and I cannot move. I’ve tried everything including loans from friends, but times are hard and everybody is suffering.

I do have a family, but it is very hard for them to believe that I am this injured. In their defense, this is a very hard thing to believe. if you watch Concussion with Will Smith or any documentary on CTE, you’ll see the pattern of family members saying over and over they just wouldn’t believe it. Most think if you can walk and talk, youre fine but there’s a difference between walking and talking and being able to work a job every day without having a seizure, slurring your words, aphasia, Parkinson's tremors, falling or anything that this disease causes. With that said, i will not let anything stop me from moving forward, but i need a car that runs to do so.

I don’t want my life solved. God will do that. For years He has been preparing me to step into the ministry full-time and these times I know come for a reason. It takes character to do God‘s work, and perseverance builds character, and unless you have something to persevere through, that character cannot be built. With that said, I cannot remain where I’m at. The only hope I have is to be able to either fix this car or trash it and buy a new one. There are plenty of sporadic jobs like DoorDash that I can do to make enough money to eat if I can be mobile. Today, if it is laid upon your heart to help, it will be appreciated more than I can express in words.There is no obligation if you are my friend in anyway, so don’t feel that. No donation is a small one.

My friends, please listen to me. I did not write this to make you feel sorry for me. I have Jesus Christ and I live forever from now till eternity. I just wanted you to know that this is how bad the situation has to be before I would ask anyone for their hard earned money. Thank you so much for reading this.. God bless you and keep you in his son Jesus Christ.