Made to Change the World by Derek Evans

Author:Derek Evans [Evans, Derek]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Post Hill Press
Published: 2019-04-30T16:00:00+00:00

The first official Project 615 T-shirt campaign to provide Christmas to orphans in Ethiopia. Winter 2014.

Lianna came up with the idea of putting together a food truck meet-up to help promote the campaign and boost sales of the shirt we had designed. We reached out to four or five of our favorite food trucks and a dozen local vendors who were also working to have a positive impact on the community. We hired a few local bands that supported our mission to play live music at the event and put the word out on our social media sites. On November 9, 2014, Project 615 hosted its very first Nashvember event in Centennial Park. We were expecting maybe a couple of hundred people to show up but, in the end, over three thousand Nashvillians came out to show their love and support. In one day, we raised $13,000 for our mission trip to Ethiopia.

That was an eye-opening moment for us because it was the first time we realized that not only were people following us on social media, they truly believed in our mission and wanted to be a part of our world-changing movement. The love that we had been pouring into Nashville was coming back to us tenfold. Our mission was always to use our gifts and talents to change the world. Up to then, it had been primarily through local homeless outreach and partnerships with nonprofits, but now we were able to truly expand our reach and begin spreading that good ol’-fashioned Nashville love beyond the physical borders of the city.

The following month, Matt and I went home to Indiana to spend the holidays with our families. On December 26th, we met at the airport in Chicago, where we embarked on the thirteen-and-a-half-hour flight to Ethiopia. I remember just being in awe that we had created this mission trip and had raised the money to fund it solely through sales of our T-shirt designs. We took a selfie to commemorate the moment and posted it on our Instagram page with the caption: “We launched the T-shirt company in 2010 to help change the world never thought we would actually travel the world to help others. Africa here we come.”

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