Jeff Warren Dream Hunt Foundation

God called Jeff to start Dream Hunt Foundation in 2013. Jeff Warren Dream Hunt Foundation. Dream Hunt Foundation exists so that children and teens with disabilities, terminal illnesses, or those considered disadvantaged, have the chance of a lifetime to fulfill their dream of participating in a guided hunting or fishing trip. Dream Hunt has taken over 65 kids in the last two years on their dream hunting or fishing adventure. This year, in 2015, they will take over 100 kids!  Jeff Warren Dream Hunt Foundation

Like you said, I was doing, it was actually kind of crazy, in some moments of prayer and things like that, God began to reveal to me what I really felt like He was calling me to do. So we take kids that are 10 to 18 years old that are disabled or handicapped, and some of the kids are terminally ill, some of them are disadvantaged, and what I mean by disadvantaged meaning that they don't have a father in their lives to take them hunting. Jeff Warren Dream Hunt Foundation

We take kids like that on dream hunting and fishing trip

We take kids like that on dream hunting and fishing trips, and it's been a blast. We started about three years ago, and it's really taken off in the last three years and it doesn't look like it's going to slow down any time soon.

It started out as, when it all started out, I thought, 'man, we're just going to take a couple kids a year, me and my buddies I've known all my life, we'll just take a couple kids and it won't be a big deal.' But as everything's grown, we've actually gone to a background-check system this year, that we'll begin implementing this year, just to make sure everything's on the up-and-up with everybody because as the foundation's growing, now we're taking kids from all over the place hunting and fishing. So sometimes, this year could be the first year I may not be involved in every single hunt that's going on, so that's one thing. And another thing, we always have a leader meeting to make sure everybody's on the same page, make sure all of our film guys are on the same page with what our goal is and what we're trying to do.

It's all about the kids

It's all about the kids. This is their experience; this isn't about us or what we want to get or all that, but this is about the kids, and so we try to focus on them and their family, to bless them, as a lot of them come in from out of town, actually most of them come in from out of town, so we want to just totally take care of them and make it the best experience that they could possibly have. As it's grown, obviously everything else has to grow with it, but we have a lot of great guys, we could not do it without all of our awesome hunting guides, cameramen, that volunteer to take time away from their own hunting experience with their own families to come and take a kid in the woods that's never been in the woods and make a memory with them that those kids surely will never forget, so that's pretty cool.

about your hunting tradition

let's keep it right close to home for you, and talk about your dad and your grandfather and aunts and uncles and other about your hunting tradition, when it started and what it means to you.

Well, I grew up, I'll never forget my fourth birthday. For my fourth birthday, my dad took me squirrel hunting, and I'll never forget sitting on a pine tree with him and we're sitting there and haven't seen any squirrels, but we're sitting fight on this little fire lane, and I remember him nudging me, saying, 'look at that.' And I looked up and a little bitty yearling was running down this fire land and it stopped right beside me, almost close enough where I could reach out and touch it, and it didn't see us sitting there. And it turn around and ran off, and I'll never forget thinking, 'when I grow up, that's what I want to do.