THE FOUNDERS STORY
My name is Minister Anthony (Stumpee) Jones Founder of Bad boys coalition for youth, Founder of Stumpees Restaurants, Founder of Stumpees youth party centers, Co Founder of Hungry Hut restaurant and Founder and Chief Ambassador of Above and Beyond Organization.
I'm 30 something years young. I was born and raised in Cleveland, Ohio. I grew up in the Cleveland public school system I was labeled S.B.H severe behavioral handicap and during my fourth grade year I was transformed to a special school called PEP Positive Education Program which was designed to help children with my type of diagnosis.
I was raised in a semi dysfunctional home with mental and physical abuse along with 2 other siblings and a mother and step father. I was kidnapped at the age of 12 by a sexual predator who intended on doing me bodily harm but i managed to escape unharmed with only a few minor abrasions and a torn shirt. I took to the streets running away from home at the age of 13 and becoming a young drug trafficker and endured a multitude of juvenile incarcerations. I dropped out of school in the 10th grade. I carried on unacceptable and unruly behavior as a young adult and obtained 2 separate adult correctional facility incarcerations for drug trafficking before my 21st birthday. I was released from what was my second and last incarceration shortly after my 22nd birthday.
While I was still in prison doing my last incarceration I came to the conclusion that I was very intelligent and I never wanted to go back to prison or spend any more of my life behind any jail walls. I made up my mind and wanted to change my life around and become someone positive and productive. While I was on my last prison journey I created a menu for a restaurant inspired by all the foods I loved and was unable to get while I was locked up. I left prison with my idea and shared it with my little sister who liked my idea and loaned me her only $1200.00 she had saved up working at Wendy's. " bless her little heart" She believed in me, she is forever my (Shero) I took that money and added a few more dollars with it and bought a restaurant on wheels my birth father had made and began my mobile cooking journey the first fully equipped mobile cooking unit in Cleveland. Wow who would've ever thought someone like me inspired the mobile cooking trend in a major city. I have never even been given credit for that accomplishment lol. I saw that I was making good legal money cooking for organizations like the Omens motorcycle Club and in front of Hanks and Skeets Club in Cleveland and gave chase to a bigger dream of owning a full restaurant. I sold my restaurant bus on wheels 3 weeks before my 23rd birthday and opened my first Stumpees restaurant on September 1st 1999. Opening my restaurant occupied all my time and kept me out of trouble. I was also the youngest restaurant owner in the City of Cleveland and probably the State of Ohio at that time which I also never got credit for along with the fact that l accomplished these milestones while being S.B.H, a 10th grade drop out and a 2 time convicted felon who came from a semi dysfunctional home.
While owning my restaurant I managed to employ people of all ages who had difficulties in life like I had and were unable to get a job at other companies because of there background or lifestyle. I found another calling in life and organized youth groups of which I mentored and taught teenagers life values and created places for them to hang out ranging from game rooms to party centers.I realized that I had a passion for helping other people feel needed and loved in life.
Fast forwarding to December 13th 2009
I went to the corner store 2 streets over from my restaurant with a few of my family members to buy some last minute items because we were planning on going back to my house to eat some of my deliciously cooked food and watch movies when my little brother said a casual high to a young lady he knew from high school. she casually said high back when out of no where came a loud young man being very disrespectful to my little brother and I whom I now know was the ladies baby father. I said to him in a calm mature voice don't be disrespectful to me or my little brother because he was not trying to disrespect you he just said hi. the young man began to curse and became more disrespectful so we just left the store. As I was returning to my truck the young man came out and brushed past me and went to pop the hood of his car and turned and ran over to me waving a 45 caliber hand gun in may face and began to poke and threaten me with the gun. I laughed at him and said you went and got a gun because someone told you to not be disrespectful are you serious. he became more angry and grabbed me by the collar pointing the gun at my head that's when we began to tussle and that's when he pulled the trigger and I was shot point blank range in my phemeral artery which is 1 of 5 largest arteries in your body that's carries blood to all vessels, veins and organs in your body.
I fell to the ground and i couldn't get back up. My body became very cold my mouth became very dry. I felt my life leaving my body. I took a moment in my head and asked GOD to forgive me for all the wrong I had did in my life.
When I regained consciousness I was in a warm bright light. I felt so much love and power and a voice came over me and said ("you are in my care") I felt as if someone was holding me gently all over my existence. I had no form I just existed and the whole time I felt so warm, so loved, cradled and powerful. GOD was nurturing me with his unconditional love and mercy. I was allowed to hear my mothers prayer and see her face. I can remember hearing my thoughts say I'm not going to leave you mom and GOD showed me a vision of me standing in front of a multitude of people spreading love and telling them about the true GOD and what he had done for me while I was in his care. GOD had infused me with wisdom and gave me the answer to every question I had ever thought to ask then GOD asked me was I ready. I said yes. Then all of a sudden there was darkness, hurt, pain and suffering. I shouted out to GOD and said ("you didn't want me!") Then GODS gentle voice came over me and said (" you are in my care.") That is when I opened my eyes and realized that I was back in my body.
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After coming back into my body I was placed in a medically induced coma.
1 of 4 surgeries I underwent to repair the damage caused to my body due to the the amount of infections that set in after I was on life support for the 4 days that I was in GODS care and not in my body.
