Dennis Price with Heroes for Humanity

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Trisha Stetzel: Hello, Houston. Trisha Stetzel here bringing you another episode of Houston Business Radio Serving the Community. Series. I have the special privilege of this amazing guest on the show today, who was introduced to me by Jason Mitrione. He’s such a great connector and I’m so excited to meet and have on the show. Dennis Price, who is the founder and CEO of Heroes for Humanity. He spent 17 years in the United States Marine Corps and also served in special ops. So, Dennis, I’m so excited to have you on the show and talk about this great event that you have coming up this weekend. Welcome.

Dennis Price: Yeah. Thank you so much for having me on. Um, it’s a massive honor to to be here and to just share the word of God and. And what? We’re, uh, not just what I’m doing here, but what we’re all doing. You know, so, uh, on November 9th at 5:45 p.m. down in Katy, Texas, we’re having a massive fundraiser banquet. Um, we would like to invite everyone, everyone to be a part of of what we’re doing and invite them to the family to, to hopefully encourage others to use the gifts and talents of the Lord to be his hands and feet with us. You know we can’t do this alone. Um, uh, one of the things I was, I, I joke around about, I say, man, the sphere of influence that I have, I get operators all day, day, day and night saying, hey, send me. Let’s go on. Let’s go on rescue operations for traffic, children. Let’s do all this stuff that we do. But I don’t attract, like, you know, um, people like, let’s check out your financial plan. How is your marketing doing? Like, I don’t. So, um. Yeah, we’re gonna we’re we just we want to encourage everyone to to come with the fundraiser banquet. So, so we can help finish out 2024. Um, uh, missions and budget and then reset for 2025. In the nine countries we’re in into this year into next year.

Trisha Stetzel: Yeah. You were sharing with me before we started the show so many things that you’ve done just in the month of October, which is why we have such a hard push for this event that’s coming up this weekend. We really need to sell every single ticket to this dinner. We’ve got 160 seats. There’s still a big portion of that open and available. We’re welcoming everyone. And this is not just for people who are in the military. This is open to the public to help support heroes for humanity. So, Dennis, you know, I’m going to put this in the show notes. All of the things that you guys have been doing along with your background so that people can go and immerse themselves in that. But can you just tell us a little bit of what you did in the month of October with heroes for humanity.

Dennis Price: Yeah. Well, um, you know, God’s been good, and that’s to say the least. Uh, I joke around, I say, hey, when you pray for rain, you gotta deal with the mud. When you pray that God uses you to your maximum capacity, you cannot complain that he’s using you to your maximum. Maximum capacity. So we’ve been really blessed by the Lord to to be used like that. So in October alone, if you guys saw on the news two natural disasters happened, uh, Hurricane Helene and, uh, hit North Carolina and Florida, and then another hurricane hit Florida at the exact same time. We we branched out from the moment it hit the ground, uh, the hurricane, we had, uh, volunteers from heroes for humanity the moment the hurricane went, uh, so we’ve been in North Carolina the whole time running up. And same with Florida running up and down the mountains, doing massive amounts of operations of search and rescue tremendous amount of humanitarian and medical aid. We’ve we’ve done so much. We’ve gathered like probably 5 or 6 new editions of nurse practitioners and Pas and doctors to the team. So it’s such a blessing. And we’ve been opening up medical clinics for people in stranded areas and all through North Carolina. Um, so we’ve been running up and down the mountains of North Carolina.

Dennis Price: Um, and we did we covered down in Florida as well. But it’s it’s still so bad there because then winter was coming. So I just got back two days ago. Uh, and I still have teams out there who are preparing them for winter, setting up, uh, propane generators because they’re still without power. We handed out massive amounts of blankets, um, uh, sleeping bags, warming layers, propane heaters for their house. We set them up. And not just that, we are treating the the physical being and we provide most of us are EMTs and above, tons of nurse practitioners and everyone we’re providing, um, medical, uh, aid and assistance and as well as spiritual, uh, resiliency and spiritual hope, you know, hope that this will pass, that this there will be better times and and just a hope for the future and closure to their families, as we did search and rescue to find remains of their lost ones to to provide closure for that. That’s just in North Carolina at the exact same time as we did Florida. And we just came back from a mission in Cuba this past month, building a soup kitchen for the poor with Assemblies of God out there and Lone Star Cowboy Church, and here in Texas and, um, and at the exact same time, we were able to rescue five trafficked children, two in Texas and three in Louisiana.

Dennis Price: That led to five federal arrests in human trafficking. Like, it’s been so tremendous and so awesome. And I’m just so happy that to be a part of it, and it’s not something I’m doing or what God’s doing in my life, it’s what he’s all doing. Once we just stand up and say, just like Isaiah said, uh, six eight in the Bible says, here I am, send me. Use the gifts and talents of the Lord to be his hands and feet in this fallen world. You know, so, um, I just I really encourage everyone to, to to show up on November 6th, uh, at warehouse 72 for, um, for our fundraiser banquet and just see what how they could be a part of the team. And one of the things you you mentioned, and you hit it right on a lot of people self-select and say, I was in the military, I can’t do this. I can’t do that. Well, first of all, I say I weigh hearts, not resumes. I, you know, um, in Scripture it tells us that God knows our hearts. He judges our mind and he way, and he he judges us by the fruits that we bear, you know, so he knows our intentions of our true heart and how we serve.

Dennis Price: And he judges us the fruits that we bear. What are we doing with the gifts and talents of the Lord in this fallen world? We always say, God, how can you let this happen? How can you let this do? And instead know, how did you let this happen? I equipped you with a voice. You have a podcast. You have a voice. I’ve equipped you with a military background. I’ve equipped you with marketing skills. I’ve equipped you with an MBA in business. I’ve equipped you with a great network, uh, through entrepreneurs, because we need openly need corporate sponsorships. Because we can’t just work off the. We’ve been working off the widow’s might alone and our faith. And but like I told you before, we’re in nine countries this year and the next year. So we openly need people to, to be a part of the team. See how they can contribute. Show up at the fundraiser. And if you can’t show up then then awesome. Uh, spread the word to everyone and anyone about the tickets. And then if you can’t do that because each $50 of each ticket goes directly to heroes for Manatee, and the rest covers the event, the dinner. Um, but if you can’t make it there, then go on and donate to our cause.

Dennis Price: We’re 500 and 1C3, um, federally tax exempt. So we can we we offer um, uh, tax breaks and everything like that. And, and ultimately like our third pillar is evangelism. If you want a place to tithe. If you want a place to sow your seed and know that it’s not just going to a place that gets up and sings songs about the Lord, but who who is the action arm and using the gifts and talents to be the Lord’s hand and feet in this fallen world. If you are sick of flipping through the TV and saying, I’ve had enough of this, this world like, man, this stinks so bad, what is that glimmering hope? I’ll tell you, it’s not heroes for America. It’s not. It’s not veterans for America. It’s not any of that. It’s heroes for humanity that we are. We’re agnostic to whatever country, agnostic to what? Anything like that. And just and like ultimately I yeah, I care if you’re a Christian, like I would like for you to come to Christ, but but ultimately it’s just people, people being doing the right thing for the right reason. And it doesn’t have to be worth it to do the right thing. It’s just people helping people, that’s all.

Trisha Stetzel: Yeah, absolutely. And, uh, heroes for humanity cannot operate without support. And you’ve got lots of boots on the ground and I’m sure that there are people listening to the show today that might like to be a part of the operations team, so please reach out to Dennis. He would love to have you on the team. But more importantly, more importantly is the support, the financial support of this organization. Y’all, listen, Dennis may not tell you this, but I know he’s working three jobs so that he can keep this nonprofit running and get to the event. If you can’t get to the event, buy a ticket. Spread the word. The link to order your tickets is going to be in the show notes, so please do that also. Dennis, I heard you say that you need corporate sponsors. That is another way that bigger organizations can give back to this beautiful work that your team is doing through heroes for humanity, and without those corporate sponsors, there is no nonprofit. We have to have the support out there. You guys can be boots on the ground all day long, but you’ve got to have that financial support as well. So if you’re listening to the show and you want to give to an organization that is really boots on the ground, really helping people all over the planet, then this is the place that you should land. Um, so, Dennis, I know you have a very, very long backstory, and I really want folks to understand what that is. So I will, as I mentioned earlier, put all of those videos and the appearances that you’ve made in the show notes so that they can go back and look at all of the amazing work that you’ve been doing. Um, I understand we’re really pushing for this event this weekend because you’ve been so busy all over the place doing so many amazing things. So, uh, Dennis, what is one thing that you would really like for folks to take away from our conversation today?

Dennis Price: Um, ultimately, uh, so I’ll first go over our three pillars of what we are, because then it’s going to tie into that last one and answer that question. So our three pillars that heroes for Humanity. Um, they’re all equally weighted and none over the other. But it’s precision personnel rescue. We’ve rescued people, uh, the Americans who we left behind in Afghanistan. That’s where we all started. I pulled out 77 Americans and vet interpreters. Afghanistan by swimming across the Panjshir Valley. That’s when I came to Christ, and I realized, you know, as a alone, I was a broken man. But look what God did with the pieces. So I then submitted my life to Christ. And and going from taking lives to saving lives. That’s what God had this whole time. If you guys watch my testimony in that video, you will see that it’s it’s not just, uh, there’s a lot of similarities that maybe a lot of people can relate to, but, um, it’s when we focus inward that we start, we start decaying, and it’s something greater than us. And and we that was the trials and tribulations that led me to be qualified to the guy to go into Afghanistan behind enemy lines, swim across and pull out 77 Americans, embedded interpreters who we left behind. And then when Ukraine kicked off in the initial invasion, and I did the first nine months out there doing humanitarian and medical aid and doing precision personnel rescues out there before any American was allowed to go or any, any, any dollar support of America because they thought Russia would start World War three.

Dennis Price: So we’re out there serving those, you know, being the like I said, the hands and feet of the Lord. And then doing it in within the United States and globally is rescuing trafficked children. You know, that that movie Sound of Freedom really opened eyes to the one of the problems, uh, not one of the the largest business in the world is human trafficking. The number one largest consumer is America. So we’re we’re just so busy with that. So precision personnel rescue, we we rescue, um, displaced, um, refugees of all who are suffering from, uh, human rights violations all around the world, we rescue trafficked children. Anyone who who has a call to help. We are that glimmering hope for them. And so our second one is humanitarian and medical aid, just like our humanitarian missions in Ukraine to, uh, I said North Carolina, Florida. We’ve covered so many tremendous ones in Louisiana, the hurricanes in, uh, Beryl in in Texas, all over the world, we are covering down actively, um, and all of our, our, our deployed team, uh, or almost all of them are EMTs and above.

Dennis Price: We have a tremendous amount of doctors, nurse practitioners, Pas, and I encourage more to, um, to be there. We’re very heavily in South America in 2025 to include, um, Africa and, uh, and some places in Southeast Asia. And then our third pillar, after humanitarian medical aid is evangelism. I tried so hard to to hold this part out because I was like, what do people think? I know that, um, you know, it’s it’s illegal for in 26 countries to have a Bible or talk about Christ or be a Christian. 26 countries, it’s punishable by death or arrest. So I was like, well, I still want to help people in these ones. How do I do this? And then all ultimately came down to a few scriptures in the Bible. And, um, and if I didn’t have that third pillar, who gets the glory, is it? This is not the Dennis Price Foundation. This has nothing to do with me. I gave away this nonprofit before, and I might do it again, because this has nothing to do with me. You know, Mother Teresa said it best. I alone cannot change the world. But I can cast a stone that causes many ripples. So this is not. This is not the Dennis Price Foundation. This is what God is doing in all, all of our lives and how we can be a part of it.

Dennis Price: So evangelism, Christ said that if you deny me before man, I will deny you before my father. So who gets the glory in this? This if if God orchestrated this massive miracle of Afghanistan, evacuations and all this stuff that he’s actively doing and I didn’t mention who gets the glory in that? And so, um, when it comes down to revelations in the Bible, it says that we will conquer over the enemy by the blood of the lamb. That’s Jesus Christ, by the blood of the lamb and the power of our testimony. What is God doing in your life? You know, so that is how we we make a difference in this world is what is he doing in your life and what are you doing with those skills to conquer over the enemy in this fallen world? You know, um, so I just really want to, uh, to, uh, to say the biggest takeaway in this, man, if we don’t get a single dollar, like, uh, you know, hey, that that that stinks. But I can’t, I can’t, like, just like what you mentioned. I worked three jobs so I could do this for free, so, um, I can’t help that people don’t donate. I can’t help that. Maybe a corporate sponsor doesn’t bite off or anything like that, but I will.

Dennis Price: I can help that. Anytime someone hears my voice, they will hear the voice of sowing seeds of the Lord. They will hear me share the gospel. They. What is evangelism? It just means sharing the good news. Like, hey man, we could fully flip on TV all day long. We see garbage. We see. We see, uh, sowing seeds of hate and discontent. We flip, we scroll through social media. We see that divide, man, I tell everyone, unplug all of that. We know we live in a fallen world. What are you doing to actively change that? What are you doing to step into prayer? What are you doing to to make a difference in this world? And that? And I’ll tell you one thing. There’s many awesome organizations out there. You know, I, uh, but I know exactly what we’re doing and that we’re trying to keep it pure and authentic and using that and being that true answer and glimmering hope for people in need. And we’re trying to be those heroes for many, and use the gifts and talents of the Lord to be his hands and feet. So please, I invite all of you to the fundraiser dinner. Please push our ticket sales for that. Just help, um, spread the word of who we are, help with the corporate sponsorships. We’re openly trying to do and advocate for this, and we do it all for the right reason.

Dennis Price: And like I said, ultimately, I do. I do care if you’re Christian because you know that that is one of our, our jobs as a Christian organization and and as a, um, my personal beliefs. However, I don’t care if you if you’re a Christian or not. It’s at the end of the day. What here is for many is, is people helping people doing the right thing for the right reason. And the biggest thing is it doesn’t have to be worth it to do the right thing. There’s no return on investment. There’s just do the right thing. Where would this world be at if we led with our hearts and not with our wallets? You know, people always say, oh, but I have a family to provide. I have four kids. That’s why I work three jobs to do this all. And I’m still married. And then like, you know, I have such a strong, amazing wife, Charlotte, who who helps be my anchor for this. And, um, but, you know, ultimately, you know, this world will not be changed by by childless men and childless women. We all have to. It takes a village to raise a family. And if we’re all worried about our own backyards, we as a village will fail.

Trisha Stetzel: Absolutely. And, you know, I heard you say some really profound things that resonated with me. And, you know, it’s it’s what is your gift? And I was just thinking about, you know, my gift is being able to have you on the show and get the word out. And those who are listening, if you can’t do anything else but share this word, share this show, and share the event, then you’ve done good, right? Um, you’ve done good. So please be, um, be open and share this event. To be open and share, uh, the information about heroes for humanity. And gosh, Dennis, you are doing so much good in the world by just opening your heart, right? And leading with that. And I think that that is so important to hear, especially right now with the way things are in the world.

Trisha Stetzel: Yeah, Absolutely. All right, my friend. I’m so, so just blessed that you came on the show today. You’ve said so many amazing, profound things that are really going to sit with me for the rest of the week. I hope we can get some more folks into the room for Saturday’s event and tell me, is there a particular place where people can just go and find you? Do you have a website for heroes for humanity? What is it?

Dennis Price: Yeah, so our website is the heroes for humanity. Org so, um, and just just to throw it out there for people. I know some people might misspell it, but heroes is h e r o e s. And then spelling out for.org the heroes for humanity.org.

Trisha Stetzel: Perfect. Thank you. And thank you for the spelling because I do see it misspelled quite often.

Dennis Price: Yes. Yeah. And and people always tell me they’re like, I can’t find your website or anything like that. And then I see it, I’m like, hey, just throwing up. I had to Google it late also. So, you know, when we first started. At what point does it does it rate the E or does it rate the V?

Trisha Stetzel: You know the heroes for humanity.org. Go visit the site. All of the information. If you want to take a deeper dive into the details behind this organization are going to be in the show notes. So please share. Please show up for the event if you can’t. Giving goes a long way in order for heroes, for humanity to continue to operate and do the amazing things that they have been doing. Dennis, thanks so much for being on the show today.

Dennis Price: Thank you.

Trisha Stetzel: That’s all the time we have for today’s show. Join us next time for another exciting episode of Houston Business Radio. Until then, stay tuned, stay inspired, and keep thriving in the Houston business community.