Our Story
Meet Larry & Jasmine
Larry & Jasmine Hill
Founders of 5230: Man in Progress
Every man has a driveway.
The place he keeps returning to. The ground where the worst thing happened. He calls it haunting. He calls it weakness. He calls it proof that he has not healed.
He is wrong.
The driveway is not his prison. It is his preparation. And the highway he is looking for is on the other side of it.
“My father was murdered when I was four years old. At sixteen, on that same driveway, I tried to end my life. The gun did not fire. Fully loaded. The gun did not fire.
What followed was thirty years of formation. Two heart attacks. A divorce. I buried a child. Homelessness. Watching my uncle lose his fight with addiction. Nearly fumbling away the second chance God placed in my hands in the form of a woman named Jasmine.
And through all of it I kept watching the same pattern repeat in men around me. When they reached out for help they were handed: Go to church. Join a club. Make some friends.
Those are not solutions. They are suggestions. The men I was watching die needed something with more precision than a suggestion.
I am a Man in Progress — evidence that the grace available to a sixteen-year-old boy who tried to quit on a white gravel driveway is the same grace available to the man reading this right now.
