Driven Ministry Center seeks to purchase a 2,000-acre ranch in Ocala, Florida to be called ‘Freedom Ranch’

Michael Mastro, founder of Driven Ministry Center, as a kid growing up on a small farm in Ohio, the first big news story that he remembers was the May 4, 1970 shootings at Kent State University which was located about one hour east of where we lived. Whether there is a direct correlation between that event and how our veterans have been treated since that time is a question for academics.

What is known is that on one night in January 2023, over 35,000 veterans – 31,000 men and 4,000 women – were homeless.

Research indicates that those who served in the late Vietnam – roughly 1970 – and post-Vietnam eras are at the greatest risk of becoming homeless but that veterans from more recent wars and conflicts are also affected. Veterans returning from deployments in Afghanistan and Iraq often face invisible wounds of war, including traumatic brain injury and post-traumatic stress disorder, both of which correlate with homelessness.

Local and State governments are evicting veterans in favor of housing the eight million or so illegal aliens that have crossed our southern border.

Driven Ministry Center cannot and will not stand by and allow this to happen to our vets. But we need your help.

Driven Ministry Center intends, with God’s will, to purchase a 2000-acre ranch in the Ocala area to be called Freedom Ranch.

Driven Ministry Center will build a dormitory that will house up to one hundred veterans, male and female in two-person shared rooms. Two rooms will share a bathroom. The rooms will be strictly segregated by gender to protect everyone. Driven Ministry Center will have medical and dental clinics – all free – and for which we already have doctors, dentists and support staff lined up. However, not all veterans want to be housed in a building. Their PTSD makes it preferable to sleep outside. We will have a 200-acre campground with full shower and toilet facilities to protect and accommodate them.

Driven Ministry Center’s Freedom Ranch will be a fully functional horse and cattle ranch. It will include up to 100 head of cattle and 30 horses. Freedom Ranch will have a large garden, the objective of which is to provide as much fresh produce for the residents as possible. Freedom Ranch will not have an abattoir as that skill is more easily outsourced, along with the necessary veterinary and blacksmith services. With that exception, everyone will participate to the best of their ability. This could include cooking, cleaning, animal husbandry, gardening, maintaining the equipment or just plain being a helping hand.

There will of course be a Christian aspect to it, though open to all. This will be funded by God’s will with a foundation built by angels.

We need your help.

Driven Ministry Center, Inc. is a 501c3 nonprofit and donations are tax deductible.

We need your donations.

We ask that you act in a Biblical fashion.

Whether you can donate two coins as the poor widow did in Mark 12:42 or a much more grand some, ever bit will help.

Please make checks payable to Driven Ministry Center, Inc. In the memo write “Freedom Ranch.”

Checks may be mailed to Jeffrey Sanow, 9036 Unicorn Dr., Port Richey FL 34668.

ABOUT DRIVEN MINISTRY CENTER

Driven Ministry Center is a non-profit organization that ‘Changes America One Heart at a Time!’ via counseling  in a personal way that truly makes a difference.  As traveling evangelists we go where God leads us, spreading the ‘Good News’ that not only is the surety of eternal life in heaven available, which is very important; but the fact that God wants you to live here on earth blessed – enjoying health and wealth as your soul prospers.  (3 John 2)

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