I'm here in downtown Warsaw and I'm here with Michelle, not Michelle.

Michelle.

Michelle.

I like it, I will get that right.

And tell me a little bit about.

It's all good, this food truck and fellowship mission.

What's it all about?

So the It’s All Good food truck supports fellowship missions and social enterprise.

So we created it to offer employment opportunities, community engagement opportunities and soft skill learning opportunities for our residents.

Nice.

And then it's also, I guess a fundraiser as well if there's anything.

And so does it.

Just run like a regular food truck.

Just, you know, going to different events like another food truck would or or how like, what's the regular schedule of it is just like any other food truck, with the exception that we don't have a spot, say, on the corner of Buffalo and Center that we set every day.

Yeah, we are 95% privately booked.

Yeah.

People have us come to their events and service their their parties and such.

We do we do hit like Third Fridays and festivals also.

And so do you find like it's enticing to people to want to book you over maybe another food truck because they know ultimately it's going towards a mission rather than just like a business making a profit.

Not that there's anything wrong with that, but there's obviously a feel good factor for that too.

Yeah, I think that it absolutely plays into it.

But also we have great food and we have a great staff.

There you go.

So we're the whole package.

I mean, when you book us you get you're helping a good cause out.

You're supporting the people on the truck and you're getting a great event.

And so we talk about supporting the people on the truck.

So are they just regular employees or like as you talk about on the job skills and things like that.

How do you choose those people?

Like what makes them qualify to work on here?

So people in food service, their niche all their own.

Not everybody's made for food service.

Usually the people that see the food truck and want to be a part of it have that passion in them.

So there's that part of it.

Also, you have to be within good standing of fellowship and our beliefs and our programs.

And as long as you're working through those steps, then you can work your way onto the truck.

Okay.

And so tell me a little bit about fellowship mission and, and what you do as a, as a whole.

So we are a homeless shelter and a recovery hub.

We are Christ based.

So we believe in loving people the way we were loved first, and that's our highest priority.

You know, I work with some homeless shelters and substance abuse organizations myself.

And obviously, like there's a barrier sometimes when people getting back into the workforce or even getting back onto a routine, you know, it's difficult, it's overwhelming.

So in a way, this might be able to help people that at least their manager understands some of the challenges that a regular employer may not understand.

Absolutely.

Absolutely.

We're like a lot of times we can be the first step for that person getting some money back in their pocket.

Yeah.

Also, people are allowed to come and serve their community service on our truck.

Yeah.

Sometimes they have the ankle bracelet where they they can't go to many different places and they can get permission from their probation officer.

And we work with them and they're allowed to go out on, on trips with us.

I've personally always wondered, like, I don't really I mean, obviously sometimes there's people that you have to be careful of if there's a, you know, danger.

Yeah, there's a real size like to some people are not good actors necessarily.

But I've always wondered why if people are pretty honest, but they've just made mistakes.

I don't know why there isn't more forgiveness.

It feels like there's more barriers for people just to get back on their feet.

Yeah, I've never really understood that mentality, not just as a Christian, but just as a human being.

I don't yeah, I don't understand why we wouldn't take a chance on people.

Absolutely.

So I like that you're doing that.

And I think more people should do it.

You know, like the idea if you can't get a job, if you have a felony or something.

I'm like, well, obviously it depends on what where the person is now.

But I've never understood why we create more walls.

It's not where you Christ like, in my opinion.

I think that you're right from a manager's point of view, though, I can kind of see it like they're afraid of bringing that person on.

They don't know where they're at in their recovery.

They don't know if they're going to be there one week, two weeks before the bottom falls out.

Yeah.

So this this truck is actually also another step for them.

So they're working through that.

They've got business experience and they've got a great reference.

Like I will be your biggest cheerleader in getting you to that next step.

But again sometimes just getting back into a routine that's just being responsible again after being through so much.

So one of the other really big things I love about what we do is so we also run food service at fellowship every day, three meals a day, anywhere from 100 to 150 meals every single day.

And so that's always going on in the background while we're running this food truck.

But one of the things I love about food is that you can sometimes people come to us and they don't have the best background, and there might be in a really dark state of mind because they're used to hearing about their mistakes and what people think of them.

So when you come into our kitchen or you get on our food truck, we make great food and it's beautiful.

So they're creating art in my mind, and I kind of try to help them see the beauty that they're making.

And then they get a servant to somebody that immediately their eyes light up and they say, thank you.

Great job.

This is wonderful.

And so getting that food back that that feedback is like an instant food back feedback I like that.

Yeah I it's new.

It's new now but I like it.

Food feedback.

There you go.

But it's like it's healing.

Yeah really quick.

It's like you're it's.

Yeah.

No I totally get oh I'm not at rock bottom.

Oh I do have worth.

Yeah, yeah it's cool.

I mean you're just kind of helping out the people that, you know, if Jesus was there.

He'd go to first.

Exactly.

So, you know right where I want to be, I like it.

I know I like it, I believe in that.

So we can't be here and talk about food and not like, you know, what are the staple items that you have?

You talk about it being really good.

Like, what is it that you have that like people really come for?

So I made my menu when we when we built this food truck, I had it in mind that I wanted everybody to be included.

Okay.

Sometimes when I go to a food truck event, I know I'm getting fried food or or barbecue or maybe a taco, but if you want something healthy, you really don't have the option.

No.

Or you have to be really creative on how you order.

So we had taco without the taco?

Yes.

Taco.

No shell, no cheese, no sour cream.

Yeah.

So play to meet these.

Exactly.

So we have something called the Gathering Bowl, which includes everybody.

So that's it's it's kind of a play on a Buddha bowl.

So it's noodles or quinoa and then seasonal vegetables that are all either seasoned or marinated.

So it's not just straightforward but they're raw.

Yeah.

But you wouldn't necessarily know you're eating raw vegetable.

Yeah.

Then you pick your source in your protein.

Yeah.

Those are one of our more popular options than we have the bad side.

So that's our chicken bacon ranch melt.

But hands down people love that.

And it's a big grilled cheese sandwich basically on sour dough bread with chicken and bacon and ranch on a big grilled cheese sandwich.

That's what I'm getting to go.

Yeah.

There you go.

Our seafood is really good, too.

We've got great shrimp and hand breaded fish.

That's what Warsaw is known for.

Its seafood.

Well, really, if we go to Winona Lake, that's true.

As I was coming in here today, I'm like, there are people out fishing.

Yes.

And so if people are interested in booking you, I mean, do you just stay here more so, or would you kind of go anywhere for the right price?

For the right price?

I'll go anywhere.

Right.

But most of the time we stay in Warsaw.

I'll travel up to a half an hour, 40 minutes away.

Past that, it's got to be a really big event for us to be traveling that far.

And so how can people book you if they if they're interested.

So they can go to our website which is fellowship missions net.

They'll be a little link there to get to our catering.

It's all good catering page.

That's great.

And from there all the information is there.

I love what you're doing because in a way, food is supposed to bring us together.

Like there's so much around that.

And so I appreciate that you're doing that.

I appreciate that you're not just, you know, throwing people to the side just because of some decisions or some things that happen to them.

Often it's not just their decisions, it's decisions that were made on them.

So thank you for caring enough about people to do it.

So thank you.

Well thank you.