In 2008 Myron was earning minimum wage at McDonald’s when he became reacquainted with Paul Green, Hope for the Inner City’s executive director. He was just out of prison and struggling to support his three children. Green soon arranged for him to live in Hope’s temporary housing and enter Hope for the Inner City’s Jobs for Life program.

After graduating from Jobs for Life, Myron began volunteering as one of its instructors—one who could relate intimately with his students’ circumstances.

It wasn’t long before Green approached him with another challenge: evaluating Hope’s mercy ministry. Myron hesitated.

“I had never done anything like that before,” he says. “I was practicing what to say to refuse the position.” But after much deliberation, he agreed. “The hardest obstacle,” he says, “was doing what Mr. Green believed I could do.”

With renewed confidence, Myron is interviewing with an international ministry as an African-American church relations ambassador.