The story that started it all...
(Witten by Dave Monroe / Founder of KZNow)
KZNow was founded recently in the fall of 2016 in Germantown, Maryland by Dave Monroe. Although it didn't start off as an outreach service for the local homeless population, Dave's mission was very clear...
It all started off at Gunners Lake Park where Dave would go daily, park his car, and enjoy the peace and serenity o
f the park. While at the park he started to meet some of the homeless people in the area while already known by the local community as someone that would help anybody with anything they needed help with. Dave was at the park and noticed a small black and white cat coming in and out of the storm drain. Dave felt obligated to try to help find this cat a forever home. Dave started going to the park more often and stayed for longer periods of time to feed, monitor and hopefully catch this cat. Dave then quickly noticed that others from his community were also feeding this cat and one, in particular, was also parking at the park looking out for the welfare of the cat. That other person that was parking at the park with Dave was Kim. They started chatting for hours and hours every day while coming up with some kind of plan to rescue this poor cat, winter was quickly approaching. With the hours of conversations with Kim, Dave realized that they both shared a lot in common, love of animals was, of course, the first thing he noticed, but beyond that, they also shared a love for their community, humanity, the environment and pretty much everything except politics. A friendship was born and it took Dave and Kim about 3 months to catch this cat, take it to the shelter and find it (now known as Miss Kitty) a safe and caring home. After the cat was caught by another neighbor Laura and then given to Kim and taken to the shelter, it needed her forever home and not surprisingly it was Kim who quickly adopted Miss Kitty and to this very day provides Miss Kitty with a clean, warm and wonderful life. Now that Dave and Kim were not meeting every day, Dave was introduced to another woman named Alex. Alex was a struggling single parent of one, going to college and other things. She needed a hand getting to places and of course, Dave stepped up and offered to help. Another friendship was born and Dave was also soon introduced to many other women in Alex's circle that needed help. So now Dave finds himself driving around the area 8 to 10 hours a day helping people. During this time Dave and Alex would always find a few hours a day to visit Gunners Lake Park and hang out listening to one homeless mans' stories and his messages of belief in Jesus. Helping Alex and her friends although time-consuming, wasn't enough for Dave. He and Alex helped out the homeless man in the park but there were others that needed help and Dave stepped up to the plate to focus on helping others while still helping those just in general need. Dave started then as he really has his whole life, helping those in need. Slowly his focus was centered on the homeless population of Germantown, Maryland.
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