What does Southlake care about homelessness?

This morning's edition of the Southlake Times with Leon's article on the cover!

We have heard several times that Southlake doesn’t care about homelessness, and that the community of Southlake and the surrounding areas will not care about what Leon is doing in November. Well, to that, we have said “You obviously don’t know the community of Southlake,” and today proved that those people truly do not know Southlake whatsoever! 

A couple of cool things happened this week...one being yesterday, when someone from the Southlake Times got in touch with Leon, asking him a few questions about what he is doing in November. Then when we saw last night, that she had written an article about Leon and put it on the Southlake Times website. We thought to ourselves, “well, that’s cool...they wanted to write a little article about Leon...” Little did we know that we would wake up to see Leon’s face, along with the article on the front page of the Southlake Times this morning! It was all very shocking and overwhelming. I mean, I have never had an article written about me before, so I thought it was cool to see Leon in the paper today. And after that article came out, the story has hit all kinds of different avenues, such as Pegasus News, Yahoo Local, and more! You can even Google “Southlake man goes homeless” and see what all pops up!

The second cool thing is that we hit a milestone just a few hours ago when the Have You Seen Leon Facebook page hit over 200 likes! And the majority of the likes we got today, are from people I don’t even know. My thought is that maybe some people who saw the article are starting to find us online and on Facebook, and I have to think, yet again, that Southlake and the DFW communities really do care about what Leon is doing, and they want to support him. Which for me, means more than anyone can possibly imagine! 

So that brings us back to the beginning....what does Southlake care about homelessness? I think that Southlake is much more than a first-class school system, or a wealthy area, or a football team. I am suggesting that the community of Southlake actually does care about people other than themselves. And I am suggesting that Southlake WILL get behind what Leon is doing, support, encourage, and cheer him on in his endeavor. Southlake already is. And I am going to make it my mission to reach as many people as possible with this story because it is Leon’s heart that if people do hear what he is doing, that they will be inspired to do something selfless for the month of November while he is on the street.

Don’t get me wrong, Leon’s motivation for this 30 days is simply to learn about a different way of life. But I am making my new mission to rally the community of Southlake and other nearby communities behind Leon, and show the cynics that we really can follow Leon’s lead, and live more selflessly for this holiday season. So let’s all keep spreading the word, wear a tee shirt or wristband for the month of November, and do something that we wouldn’t normally do to live more generously in November. And share your stories on Facebook so we can all motivate each other to keep this movement going.