Oct 19, 2026 · 34 min · 13 segments
Thousands of kids across the country don’t have a bed of their own. They sleep on floors, concrete, or crammed into overcrowded beds, and most communities have no idea it’s happening. At 35, Luke…
Luke MickelsonGuest
Brian GrynHost
But the beauty about our chapter presence, they're just amazing people that have huge hearts.
It's kind of funny, Sleep in Heavenly Peace and our core team members, we actually don't build any of the beds.
Because if you don't have a good experience, you're not going to have volunteers.
And if you don't have volunteers, you're not going to have a mission very long.
I mean, who doesn't like to play with power tools? This all started when I had a troop of Boy Scouts, basically.
And when I found out about this family in my little community that had kids sleeping on the floor, after the shock settled in, I thought, ah, this is a great opportunity to get an Xbox controller out of these boys' hands and put a drill in them and teach them something.
And so when they came over to my house, and I'd never built furniture before in my life, but Hey, being a farm kid from Idaho, I wasn't a stranger to tools.
And the beauty of it, and the reason why I built the second bed is because I saw what it did to my Boy Scouts, and I wanted that for my own kids.
I had three kids at the time, and I wanted them to, A, feel the joy that comes from service.
That if you want true joy, like true joy in your life, you got to stop thinking about yourself, you know, and see how you can help someone else out.
But what it does, and I promise you what it does, is it puts you in a state of mind where you can look at your problems in a much different perspective.
But the beauty about our chapter presence, they're just amazing people that have huge hearts.
It's kind of funny, Sleep in Heavenly Peace and our core team members, we actually don't build any of the beds.
Because if you don't have a good experience, you're not going to have volunteers.
And if you don't have volunteers, you're not going to have a mission very long.
I mean, who doesn't like to play with power tools? This all started when I had a troop of Boy Scouts, basically.
And when I found out about this family in my little community that had kids sleeping on the floor, after the shock settled in, I thought, ah, this is a great opportunity to get an Xbox controller out of these boys' hands and put a drill in them and teach them something.
And so when they came over to my house, and I'd never built furniture before in my life, but Hey, being a farm kid from Idaho, I wasn't a stranger to tools.
And the beauty of it, and the reason why I built the second bed is because I saw what it did to my Boy Scouts, and I wanted that for my own kids.
I had three kids at the time, and I wanted them to, A, feel the joy that comes from service.
That if you want true joy, like true joy in your life, you got to stop thinking about yourself, you know, and see how you can help someone else out.
But what it does, and I promise you what it does, is it puts you in a state of mind where you can look at your problems in a much different perspective.
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