COURAGEOUS: Heroes Behind Hollywood Feature Film, 12 Strong

When we started this journey, every one of our designs was lead by God’s inspiration to give hope through our shirts. I stopped by a business to sell Wear Red shirts and little did I know the door God was fixing to open for us! I met an amazing man of God that day, who asked me to put a verse on a shirt for the men portrayed in the move 12 Strong; Bill Kolb asked me to use Isaiah 6:8.

I knew immediately which design it would be. It was an idea that God had given me, that I had never quite been able to finish on my own. It was for this reason, that I hadn’t. I wasn’t supposed to. God had prepared me for that very conversation and one of our most rewarding shirt designs: COURAGEOUS.

That wasn’t my only conversation with Bill that day. He called me later and said, “Do you believe that God puts people in your path for a reason?” I can’t begin to express how deep in my heart I KNOW that He does. Bill is one of those people.

Isaiah 6:8 was the message that God sent me through Bill. The COURAGEOUS shirts were finished and shipped to retired Army Major Mark Nutsch and the first Special Forces soldiers to enter Afghanistan in the weeks following the 9/11 attacks. I was completely overwhelmed with emotion when I received this photo of Maj. Nutsch on June 6, 2019. He wore his COURAGEOUS shirt under his jump suit, as his team parachuted over Normandy to commemorate the 75th anniversary of D-Day. I’m still overwhelmed with emotion every time I see it.

THIS is WHY, y’all. Rocking Cactus Designs is how I answer God’s call; I am humbled to do His work, honoring those whose calling is brave, honorable and COURAGEOUS.