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You\u2019d think someone who had spent the past 20 years in min\u00adistry, who felt called by Mat\u00adthew 25:40 to serve the most vulner\u00adable, would have no issues trusting God. But the minute I stepped into that cavernous garage one day in June, I questioned where I was being led. What the heck am I doing here?<\/em><\/p>\n

Lifts ran down one side of the space. Tools and auto parts hung from the walls, spilled out of cabinets. The air smelled of engine oil and axle grease. The room was a cacophony of male voices. Nothing like the quiet church<\/a> I was used to working in.<\/p>\n

I walked toward the source of the noise, a knot of young men half my age\u201418, 19 years old. Suddenly ev\u00aderything went quiet. Some 20 pairs of eyes stared at me.<\/p>\n

\u201cI\u2019m Cathy Heying,\u201d I said. \u201cHere to start automotive school.\u201d<\/p>\n

The burly instructor, Dave DuVal, said, \u201cJoin us, Heying!\u201d It was more of an order than a welcome. \u201cFirst, pair off into lab partners,\u201d Mr. DuVal barked like a drill sergeant. \u201cYou\u2019ll be working together for the next two years.\u201d<\/p>\n

Two years! Was I really committing myself for that long? My mind flew to how I\u2019d ended up here at Dunwoody College of Technology at age 38. May\u00adbe I\u2019d find reassurance in the memory.<\/p>\n

I had always been sensitive to peo\u00adple\u2019s struggles. I got a degree in social work, with a minor in religious stud\u00adies. Then a master\u2019s in pastoral min\u00adistry. It seemed natural to work in a church<\/a>. I started as a youth and young adult minister, then became director of social justice outreach at St. Ste\u00adphen\u2019s in Minneapolis. A job I loved. Nine years of engaging our parishio\u00adners on systemic issues that keep peo\u00adple in poverty and reinforce racism.<\/p>\n

St. Stephen\u2019s actively worked to an\u00adswer the Gospel question: \u201cWhen did we see you hungry, thirsty, naked or a stranger in need<\/a>?\u201d The neighbors came with their requests.<\/p>\n

Most memorable to me were the at\u00adtachments people had to their cars.<\/p>\n

They would tell me, \u201cI need my car to get to my job in the suburbs.\u201d Or a doctor\u2019s appointment. A relative they cared for. Their vehicle was a place to keep their few possessions, a place to be during the day\u2014or to sleep in at night if they couldn\u2019t get a bed at our shelter<\/a>. Their car was safety and home.<\/p>\n

I was ready to offer a shelter bed, a meal from the meal program or access to free clothes, but I had nothing to help with car repairs or maintenance.<\/p>\n

Someone should take this on, <\/em>I thought. I called other social service agencies looking for a place I could refer these clients to. No group\u2014no one\u2014in all of Minneapolis could help. I certainly couldn\u2019t. I didn\u2019t know a thing about cars. I\u2019d never even changed a tire.<\/p>\n

People kept coming into St. Ste\u00adphen\u2019s asking for help with car re\u00adpairs. God, this is obviously an urgent need, <\/a><\/em>I prayed<\/a> time and again. Please find someone to step up and do some\u00adthing about it. <\/em>I listened for his still, small voice<\/a>. Looked for signs. Finally I heard what I didn\u2019t want to acknowl\u00adedge. God wanted me <\/em>to take this on.<\/p>\n

I had the germ of an idea. What if I opened a nonprofit auto garage that offered affordable repairs? Okay, but who would do the repairs? God\u2019s an\u00adswer was the same.<\/p>\n

So I\u2019d found myself at Dunwoody College of Technology in the spring of 2008 to ask about its automotive program. I met Mr. DuVal and told him about my idea of starting a garage<\/a> to serve low-income folks. He nodded and said gruffly, \u201cThe program\u2019s al\u00admost full. If you\u2019re serious, I need your application tomorrow.\u201d<\/p>\n

The cost for the two-year program was some $40,000. Though I was still paying off student loans from grad school, I knew I had to try to make my idea a reality. I felt I was being called.<\/p>\n

All my good intentions didn\u2019t mean a thing in the Dunwoody garage on the first day of automotive school. I could tell by the way my teenage classmates tossed around terms like torque <\/em>and power train <\/em>that they were gearheads<\/a>, guys who were totally into how cars worked. I was a middle-aged woman, a social worker and minister with zero mechanical inclination. I was all about feelings, emotional connections. I couldn\u2019t have been more out of place.<\/p>\n

No surprise that none of the guys rushed to be my lab partner. I ended up paired with a young man who was too shy to look up from his shoes.<\/p>\n

\u201cEveryone, line up facing the wall with the crankshafts,\u201d Mr. DuVal said. My gaze roamed over the engine parts that covered the walls. Any of them could be a crankshaft for all I knew. My only recourse was to watch my classmates and copy what they did.<\/p>\n

Come on, Cathy. <\/em>I gave myself a pep talk<\/a>. You\u2019re a quick learner. You earned a master\u2019s. How hard can this be? <\/em><\/p>\n

Harder than anything I\u2019d ever done, as it turned out. Automotive school kicked my butt. Every word out of Mr. DuVal\u2019s mouth sounded foreign. Pis\u00adtons. Manifolds. Gudgeon pins. <\/em>I couldn\u2019t connect what I read and reread in the textbook to the cars in lab. I felt un\u00adcoordinated, humiliated and inade\u00adquate\u2014every single day. The barrage of testosterone-fueled talk, banging tools and rapid-fire instructions threw me off. I studied late into the night while dreading the next morning\u2019s class.<\/p>\n

Halfway through the semester, we were assigned to flare brake lines, us\u00ading a tool to cut the end of the tube that carries fluid to the brakes so that it maintains a tight connection. No matter how hard I tried, I couldn\u2019t do it.<\/p>\n

\u201cHeying, what\u2019s taking so long?\u201d Mr. DuVal yelled from across the room.<\/p>\n

My hands were shaking so badly, I couldn\u2019t hold the tubing steady. Tears of frustration<\/a> streamed down my cheeks. My lab partner seemed embarrassed for me.<\/p>\n

At the end of class, the other stu\u00addents trooped out. I went to Mr. DuVal. \u201cMy brain doesn\u2019t work this way,\u201d I said. \u201cI\u2019m quitting.\u201d I was still working part-time at St. Stephen\u2019s. God would have to find someone else.<\/p>\n

Mr. DuVal glared at me. \u201cHeying, I\u2019m not going to let you quit!\u201d he said, his voice rising. \u201cI believe in you. I be\u00adlieve in your vision. You can do this. And I\u2019ll be there to help you every step of the way. I\u2019m going to watch you walk across that stage as a graduate in two years. Now get over there and flare those brake lines.\u201d<\/p>\n

It felt as if I\u2019d been dropped into one of those inspirational movies with the tough-as-nails coach leading his hapless team to the championship. Ex\u00adcept there was no rousing soundtrack. No teammates lifting me up. Just Mr. DuVal. And the knowledge that there was no way out but through.<\/p>\n

I trudged back to my workstation. Tried again. And again. On the fourth try, I flared those brake lines. \u201cYou\u2019ll get there, Heying!\u201d Mr. DuVal said.<\/p>\n

Eighteen months and many more tears and after-class sessions with Mr. DuVal later, I graduated in June 2010. There was still so much to learn. I worked mornings at St. Stephen\u2019s and got an afternoon job at a Sears service center to keep up my tech skills.<\/p>\n

Mak\u00ading connections with anyone who\u2019d listen to my vision, I found a business mentor<\/a> and wrote a detailed four-year plan for opening my garage, including fundraising and marketing, forming a nonprofit board, dealing with the legal paperwork, searching for a location.<\/p>\n

The summer of 2012, I launched a nonprofit called The Lift Garage. Dave DuVal was one of the first board members. Not long afterward, one of my connections called. An auto shop owner, she was struggling finan\u00adcially and needed some rental income. \u201cI think you should lease one bay from me,\u201d she said.<\/p>\n

I laughed. \u201cI don\u2019t have the funding, the tools, the mechanics, nothing.\u201d<\/p>\n

A few months later, she called back. Again, I said no. In January 2013, she called a third time. \u201cI really <\/em>feel like you need to do this,\u201d she said.<\/p>\n

I was about to tell her I was nowhere near ready, but something in her tone gave me pause.<\/p>\n

In that moment, I heard another voice. Not the still, small voice I\u2019d al\u00adways tried to listen for, but a loud and demanding one. Honestly it sounded a lot like Mr. DuVal. Heying! I\u2019m opening the door here. You need to step through! <\/em><\/p>\n

It was time to let go and let God<\/a>.<\/p>\n

I went to my board. \u201cI know this is crazy,\u201d I said. \u201cWe\u2019re not ready, but I think we need to do this.\u201d The board agreed, and we signed the lease. The first thing we\u2019d need was insurance. Thirteen companies rejected us before we got coverage at a very high cost.<\/p>\n

For the next year, The Lift Garage operated out of the single bay one day a week. When I wasn\u2019t doing repair work, I was writing grant proposals and fundraising letters. Almost im\u00admediately, I had a full schedule of cus\u00adtomers, people who shared the same stories I\u2019d heard at St. Stephen\u2019s. This time, however, I could offer help.<\/p>\n

One day, a woman named Kelly came to the garage, hoping I could get her car running again. When I told her she needed a new starter and the charge would be $100, she burst into tears of relief. She told me that she was in an abusive relationship<\/a>. \u201cI\u2019ve been trying to save enough money to get my car fixed so I could leave,\u201d she said. \u201cI don\u2019t know how to thank you!\u201d<\/p>\n

Seeing how a simple repair would change Kelly\u2019s life was thanks enough.<\/p>\n

Today The Lift Garage employs five full-time mechanics and three ser\u00advice writers, doing about 120 repairs a month. By charging for parts at cost and only $15 an hour for labor, our bills are about 75 percent less than what a for-profit shop would charge. We\u2019ve saved low-income Minnesotans more than two million dollars in car repairs.<\/p>\n

There\u2019s always more demand than we can meet. I hear from people across the country who want to follow in our footsteps. I could never have pictured any of this happening. Good thing God has a much better imagination<\/a>!<\/p>\n<\/p>\n

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