Valet Del Roy - No Sleep in Menifee

"No Sleep in Menifee" - by Valet Del Roy

From the 2017 Project: Before I Get Married



Song Produced by: @thrILLer4real  (twitter)

Valet Del Roy - Say What Up to The Valet (music video)

We Are Going to Honduras!

Hey Everyone, Me and Jamie are going to Honduras. We still need some support. So here is the support Letter. Let me know if you want updates as things come along and after. Thanks Guys. Love Yall. Keep reading...

Honduras Mission

Four years ago I was asked if I wanted to go to Kisumu, Kenya to work along side Christ’s Hope International, who’s mission is, “Bringing the life-changing message of Jesus Christ to people infected with and affected by HIV/AIDS through discipling and care giving, presenting them perfect in Christ Jesus.” We were all so blessed to walk, sit, talk and stand next to each other sharing our stories of life, the love of God and hope for a better tomorrow. I still think about it everyday. I still am in communication with friends there.

Today I am in need. And I am in need of the hardest thing to ask for once again; prayer and financial support.

This time, with your help, I will travel to Honduras, joining Christ Community Church, and serving with Hearts for Honduras. This will be a dental mission. Many will travel from far distances to come a receive care and aid. We will serve local families, their children and neighbors from surrounding areas.

How to Get Involved

• Prayer – This is the most important way to get involved. Please pray for our team. Pray for our safety. Pray that our hearts are in the right place and that we not become easily distracted. Pray for the people we come into contact with. Pray for our patients and for their health.
• Financial Support – If God has blessed you, and you are looking for an opportunity to bless others, please consider contributing financially to the team as we need resources for travel arrangements, food, and shelter. We also purchase supplies with any funds raised. Additionally, we like to bring stickers, footballs, and soccer ball for the kids.
• Instructions for financial support on next page
• Go! – There is never going to be a perfect timing. We all lead busy lives, have difficulties, or other commitments that we must prioritize. But if there is ever a time to question what to do, just act on it and go because you won’t regret it. Put life on hold for a week to love, learn and serve with purpose. Check out the Hearts to Honduras website (www.hth.org)

Thank You, for taking this moment to join me. For those who have supported me in the past, please know that you have been a part of the blessing in live of many, and I hope you would consider supporting me again. If this is a first for you! Thank You for becoming a part of the work because this wouldn’t be possible without you.

Financial Support Instructions

The church's website is at the following link: http://www.aplacetobelong.com/ So, you can use the PayPal system. You will need to indicate "Dental Mission Trip" in the comments section. DO NOT put my name in the comment section. They have actually taken a tax position that is new. In order for the individual to receive a tax deduction, they will need to make sure my name is not included. As these monies come in, the church will flag them and notify me. Then they can be specifically applied to me.

For manual checks, it will be the same. Checks can be made payable to Christ Community Church. You will indicate "Dental Mission Trip" in the memo section. DO NOT put my name in the comment section. Just include a sticky note or other paper with the check indicating who the funds are to support. Just drop it in the mail before March 30th to: 1895 Overlook Dr, Winter Haven, Fl 33884

You will indicate "Dental Mission Trip" in the memo section. DO NOT put my name in the comment section. Just include a sticky note or other paper with the check indicating who the funds are to support.

If you have already sent some money to Hearts to Honduras or the Church directly, please let me know. So that I can help them sort who is sending on my behalf. The Missions Trip is June 4th - 11th, and they have asked that all monies be sent by or on March 30th. Total cost around $1400. Thank You all so much. I love you guys.

(Thinking About It Pt.3)... A Look into Perspective

Today is Dec 30th, 2015. My Moms Birthday!!! Happy birthday mom you look beautiful as ever. You know Black don't crak and you been looking the same since the day you gave birth to me. For that I thank You. And for a portion of my great looks. I couldn't have done it without you!

My favorite day of the month. I read Proverbs 30, which is my favorite Proverb. But it's also the last post date for "Perspective."

You may or may not have been following the music along with each blog entry post but that is OK. If you went on youtube and searched for "Valet Del Roy", you'll find me. What's even more exciting is all the new content I have coming for you in this coming year. New music, poetry, short stories, blogs and video... Ohhhh I think we're going to have some fun.

Thinking About It is the last and final track piece to "Perspective", a music project I composed over a few years of my young adult life from the years 2007 - 2012. We don't need to go into further detail now because I have so much to share. It's a loaded verse ain't it. Please Enjoy.

I hope you find some time to check out the full project on YouTube or Soundcloud. Look out for a special blog tomorrow before we kick off 2016 in full effect. I love yall. Thanks for reading and letting me get into you life. Peace and blessing.

Thinking About It Pt.3 - Valet Del Roy [Prod.] Jay-I

(State of Confusion)... a Look into Perspective

In my teen years, I was absolutely wrapped in my own sight. I'm about 87% sure. Not because I have actual figures of data, just what I've experienced in my life. I wouldn't say that I had tunnel vision, but I would say that my vantage point ruled over others. I had been completely involved in a lot of the mess that comes with adolescence: The attitude, the dating, the looseness, the recklessness, the fights, the drugs, The EVERYthing!

So late in 2007, when I was "pursuing God", or whatever that means to a human, who never really finds God, but rather finds that God reveals Himself at some point in time in some kind of way, which I DO NOT understand...

Yea, some time in 2007, when I began to become involved in various church ministries, the years flew by.  In fact, by 2009, I felt that maybe the last five or six years had gone by without me noticing some particular details.

I hadn't watched TV for some time, I hadn't listened to the radio or any mainstream music for the most part, and I had been so involved in what I could see and find in "my view" that as the culture was shifting, I was present, but not conscious.

Needless to say, once I hit the explorer button again I saw something. It was alarming! It was offensive! It was "two-thousand-nine and beyond!" And what had become normal and the new acceptable really confused me. Of course this is nothing new in life, the World, the U.S.A., my city, your city and so on...

So what was I to do. Suddenly I had recognized that there would soon be a battle coming. One between "Christian culture" (whatever that was suppose to be in my view versus anyone else.) "Modern Culture" (the socially normal and acceptable by way of media outlet/focus/drive) and my conviction. Yes, My Conviction. It battles with the faith and those who are part of it as well as those who are not... So I wrote a song.

Because I felt like the world and I were in a similar place... a "State of Confusion."

Gospel Watching - Valet Del Roy

Heart for Home ft. Shawn Martin, BJ , Valet Del Roy

Trusted Guide - Valet Del Roy

Waiting - Valet Del Roy

Wrote this for you to see.

No not you......

You.

Your opinions are just as strong. Your statements are just as passionate. To not care is funny to me. Most times we may say we don't care at all. But sometimes its just that "I don't care about what you got going on. This is meaningless, because it's meaningless to me." Which is a form of care, at least for self. Self preservation, well, sorta. So if we back out, stop, let it go or whatever, we are making bigger and louder statements than we know. Because it's still a choice. We choose to continue for a reason, and to stop for a reason. Bottom line is. Your opinions are just as strong and your statements just as passionate. You just show it different.

I wrote this because I knew you would see it. Just for fun, just because, smiling the whole time. I know its not serious, and that you don't care. I know, I know. Let it go already. hahahahhhahaha

My Passenger Seat: goodbye and hello...

Look,
I know a good woman when I see one
She gone ride with her man playin chicken with a cliff
As long as im gassin the clutch she aint gone jump ship
Because she trust that I'm gone win this match
It being my duty to keep her safe and alive

Even if she doubted she might close her eyes
Hold on to the handle and get ready for the dive
She loves me enough to not let me die alone

And that's why you've always been my woman!

But,
I'm not your man, though I let you hold my keys of access
You keep hitch-hiking
I'll be damned to see somebody else in my driver seat though
I still have the spare
In case you didn't notice, the garage is empty
Plenty gas in my vehicle, I'm on the road shifting

I Love You; A good woman I still see
I know of a few more out there
a few of them know me
I figured, I'd keep the doors locked till you are ready to get in
Instead, it's unlocked and I cleared the seat for someone else to sit in

I'm driving through this desert in the world of this country
A road trip for me
Until I see that good woman that I know
In my passenger seat

Birthday in the Hospital

Keep this between us ok. Thanks

Last night, May 7th, 11:48pm I walk off campus down Chicago Ave. I go to the store on Clark Street to grab a pepsi and some mentos, the night is feeling good, the weather is nice and  I want to clear my head and "walk" into another year of life. I went in the store and got my treats and as I walked out I routinly did what I always do, look to the left, look to the right. Everything was fine and it was now 11:58pm. I begin down Clark and see a man I know, he's homeless. I talk to him as aften as I see him, help him out when it is in my ability to do so, always speak the truth, never judge, sometimes ask questions and he tells me he loves me because of it. I love this guys too, shoot, I love everybody. Well, I saw him there on clark Street in his wheel chair and expected what would happen next. "D-ROC!....come here man."

"What up g?"

"Ahhh, listen to me D-Roc, I need you to get me to the hospital right now"

"What up man, what hap-"

"I just got stabbed b, I need to get to the hospital, come around front of me, look"

That was all I needed to here. In that jumbled  moment I aksed which way to the hospital, if he wanted an  ambulance, I didn't ask what happened or why, I just got behind him and grabbed the handles and started pushin. His front whell was broken and I had to lean the lil bit of weight that I am on to keep that gap from dipping and tipping him over and out of his chair.

I won't say his name, I won't give the detail of the whole night. After his CT scan I was able to stay with him, and I did, and we talked. A lot.  and dealt with the nurses and docters and his attitude and theirs and everything.

As I pushed that wheelchair to the hospital, I checked my watch and saw 12:08am. I told him to stay awake. "Hey g, it's my birthday now." he told me happy birthday. I stayed in that hospital next to his bed, watched him itch and scratch, squirt blood, hurt and moan, laugh, be angry etc... I talked to his mom on the phone. Again Ill spare details. But he told me "God sent you my way man, I know it." And I know it.

There was no major injury from the stab wounds thank God. He could sit up and talk and would be fine, although he did break his hand fighting back. I stayed there until 4:30am. This is finals week for us and I had lots of work to do today. Plans for today. Plans for a short walk last night that did not include being up until 5:30am. I spent my birthday in a hospital, next to a homeless friend who was stabbed, able to talk openly about God, able to glorify God right where I was. Yea, I spent my birthday in a hospital. What could've been better?

P.S. - he's ok. his mother picked him up about an hour ago. Now, at least for the time, he'll have a bed, food, and a woman of God to share in his life daily...Everybody. Please pray that God turns this man's heart and saves him. Amen

Adventures with Mike and Jarvis pt 2 (photos)

Check out parts of our adventure, from a Moody Dorm

To the last stop in the Pier!

Adventures with Mike and Jarvis

Let me give a little background on these two guy.

Mike: New and recent college gradute from Moody. Met him my first semester on Culby 2 lounge one long al-nighter while trying to finish a New Testement paper that was due that morning. In The following two semesters that would follow, I probably, seen, sat with, talked to, and fell asleep on the same nights there w Mike (--).....well lets just say, to many long procrastinated nights... Now he is currently my roomate on the West Side of chicago in the hood...Living w a person youre cool w/ aint the same. Because  you may come to discover that, you really aint as coo w this person as you think after being around them in a different setting. AY! dont think it, you already know I just got issues w people. I'm workin on it. Praise Jesus! anyway.. that's Mike venting would just waste unneccesary energy.

Jarvis: Just complette  Freshman year in highschool out here on the West Side...good kid...goffy like most and talks alot...but I get it. I been there..(uuummmm) still kinda there, ha!. He was on Mikes baseball team, oh yea, Mikes a coach at that high school. Miek brought Jarvis to Thursday night C.R.I.B.S. and he's been coming ever since. I liike Jarvis. When he begins to mature a lil he'll be quite the young man.

The Adventure: Just as Church had ended this particular Sunday I was getting ready to go when Mike asked if I wanted to go to get something to eat with him and Jarvis. I Said yea. Now this is when the details blur. I'm pretty sure this is the day we went to Popeye's. Me and Jarvis had to press the issue of how Mike wasn't eating his chicken right by not adding "hot sauce", I mean...it's like it's required. C'mon now you already know, don't play games w/ ya'self. I'm pretty sure this is the same day Mike tried to take some tires on a fence across the street, claiming that they were abandoned. Well I told him to not go because those black folks acroos the strret would have already claimed them. When he made it back to the car he told us that when he asked if those tires were owned that they said yes. But that they would sell them to him..HAHAHA
It' really was funny. So we heaaded back to school because I was still staying on campus at the time. It had come to a point that I agreed to hang out with them for the evening.

We took a little while to get parking due to some city changes in certain spots that no longer allow free parking. Every dang meter is $5 to start with, fortunately we found a lil spot in the cut somewhere behind some building. Nice going Mike, let's go. I was getting wrestless in the car looking for a spot, i just want the simplified version and that felt like it took too long. So we set out for Navy Pier. Navy Pier is a lil tourist attraction spot that has all kinds of things going on including music, stores, place for kid, to eat, maybe even get on a boat. You get the idea right? Word! So after walking a little, Mike says he's going to take me and Jarvis to a spot up in some tower where we can see the whole city and whatnot. I'm all for that. We went inside and made our way through this building that seemed like we went up at least 4 or 5 escalators.

We made it to the roof. It was a great view and we walk around up top looking for this spot; and I was axious to see it, I love a good SPOT (my boys knows). So we get inside and the door is locked. LOCKED! it's ok though, mike acted like spider-man and then we  found it was unlocked. So were climbing up these steep stairs that are metal and have the wholes in then. I dont know how to describe them but lets just say no matter how high you go, you still see al the way down.[I. do. not. like. heights!] Mostly it's the edges not the heighth. So we get to the top. I was praying that this door was unlocked to so we could hurry up. The stairs were beginning to feel more and more unstable..............Then Mike caught up. This dude gone start climbing up this rinky-dink ladder attached to the walk that goes up into the ceiling. There was no support and it hung over the stairs. THE STAIRS! Not the base. So me and Jarvis looked at each other. And like the stereotypical black man who thinks in terms of "what ifs". We both shook our heads and said "NAW! UH-UN"

Of course Mike starts saying how scared we are while we defend with how smart we are. There was to be no debate about this. Mike started going up, and we started going down. Mike called us "lame" and followed. He asked what it would take to get us up there, implying that if girls were there we'd go. RIGHT! but wasn't no girls there to impress sooooooooo. We weren't going. Then he threatened to tell everybody how sissified we acted. So I told him to "tell everybody!", "post it on facebook! i dont care" "if you tell people I was a sissy Ima say 'yup, a smart, safe sissy' not a crazy one"..ahahaha

We walked around a little more before we left. On our way our we took some pic in the crazy mirror thingy. then when we really left, some kids hiding in the trees were shaking the branches and trying to scare people. They almost got hit. Cant just be jumping out at people you know. We tracked it back to the car and left, I got dropped near Michigan ave and walked back to school, I had had enough adventure for that day. But boy I tell you, a dose of Mike and Jarvis together...hahahaha just thinking about it.

oh yea, photos
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