Welcome to Living My Faith, a weekly show that celebrates the everyday believers who are walking with Jesus not just on Sundays, but in every area of their lives. From relationships and parenting to health, habits, and home, our guests share how they keep their faith at the center of it all. Hosted in Jacksonville, Florida and supported by Christ-centered partners, Living My Faith is a space where real life meets real faith. Today our hosts, Della Sellers and James Fenimore, spoke with Timothy Ager.
Timothy Ager
Organizer at Jax Social
Website Address: Jaxsocial.co
Short company description:
Social, sporting, and networking events
How did you get started in your field of work?
I’ve always hosted the party, organized the basketball game, and rallied the troops. This time I did it on steroids with the help on the internet, mainly the meetup app but now IG & FB as well.
What is the most important lesson you’ve learned over your career?
Never quit, keep pushing through.
What’s your favorite way to get involved in the community?
Cleaning projects, connecting people
If you could be remembered for one thing, what would it be?
Putting Jacksonville on the National Map
Transcript:
James:
Hi and welcome to On a Mission, where we highlight businesses and people that have a mission that we want to share with you. Joining me as always is Della Sellers. Della, how are you?
Della:
I’m wonderful. Thanks. How are you?
James:
Very good. I’m also James Fenimore. And joining us today is Tim Ager II. How are you doing?
Timothy:
I’m doing great, man. How are you doing?
James:
Very good. Thank you so much for joining us.
Timothy:
Yeah, thanks for having me.
James:
So, Tim, what kind of mission are you on?
Timothy:
My big overall mission is to put Jacksonville on the national map, and I do that by hosting events. My goal is to throw the biggest and best events here in Jacksonville.
James:
Wow. I love that. What kind of events?
Timothy:
I throw parties, I have networking events, entrepreneur meetups. And my big thing right now, my business, is a volleyball league.
James:
Well, that makes sense. You’re about six inches taller than I am. You don’t have to be tall though.
Timothy:
You don’t have to be taller.
James:
My wife is actually a state champion. She’s five foot two. So you’re right about that. So what kind of people could you expect to see at your events?
Timothy:
It’s mostly younger, single people. Jacksonville is a big city, and I think after Covid, when everyone started working from home, they kind of lost the community. So I’m there to support that and get people together and make friends after college and after high school. I host events and try to connect people. I introduce people to each other, and I’m pretty big on social media to keep it going.
James:
Very nice. Della, have you been to any of these?
Della:
I have not been to any of them.
Timothy:
Come on.
Della:
We’ve joked about that. We’ve been to several chamber and entrepreneurship meetings at the same time. I’m an early to bed, early morning person, so I’m usually in bed before most of the things they do start. But I do know a lot about what they’re doing in our city.
You’ve tied a lot of those social events to cleanups and really big things for the community. Before we came on, we talked about what you would change in the city. Can you tell us more about that big project near the Florida Theatre?
Timothy:
I would clean it. My thing is I want to attract people to Jacksonville, and it has to be clean and beautiful. And it’s neither. I used to be a professional cleaner. You can’t decorate and make something beautiful unless it’s clean.
I want to clean the city streets — pressure wash, sandblast. The awnings aren’t clean. The parking garages are rusty, like the one downtown when you come over the Main Street Bridge. I have an eye for cleaning. It’s not clean.
I’d love to go through and scrub it down. Then we can steal what Saint Augustine does and put lights up everywhere. That would be a simple way to beautify it. If we make Jacksonville attractive, it will attract people here instead of trying to force them.
Let’s make beautiful structures. Let’s make it clean. Let’s make things people want to do. Right now, I don’t think we do that.
Della:
I can’t say I disagree. As someone who tries to get kids outside, it’s hard when you see those structures. What can people do to get involved?
Timothy:
My biggest platform is Facebook. It’s called Jax Social. I post everything there. My biggest cleaning initiative is an alley behind the Florida Theatre. It has graffiti with the Bank of America Tower in the background. It looks really cool.
I’ve been cleaning it with a crew for a year and a half. I want to inspire people to take initiative and clean on their own. I don’t rely on the government. I want citizens to take ownership.
That’s my little sliver of downtown. It looks super cool. I want to host events there. It’s private property, so we’ll see. But I’m a maverick.
James:
I thought hurricanes pressure washed Florida. Now I understand why this initiative is important. What do you foresee five, ten, twenty years from now?
Timothy:
I see a big, beautiful city that’s picturesque. You want to walk downtown and take a picture. Beauty is attractive. If you want bees, you put out flowers. You don’t force them.
I want people from Miami, New York, New Jersey, Ohio — all across the country — to say, wow, that’s Jacksonville. It looks awesome. It’s fun, it’s affordable, people are friendly, the weather’s great.
James:
In New York, we had something called the Broken Windows Theory.
Timothy:
Yes. I agree with that 100%.
James:
If you see a broken window, you’re more likely to break another. If you fix it, beautify it, pride spreads. I’ve seen it work. Times Square transformed because people took pride in their city.
Timothy:
It works. If a trash can is overflowing, you throw your trash next to it. If it’s empty, you make sure it goes in.
Della:
Trash cans are one thing I notice as a runner. We don’t always have enough. If we all just looked at what’s right in front of us — one block at a time — eventually the blocks connect.
Timothy:
I look at it like a fire. If you try to light too many small fires, it won’t catch. Start in one center and radiate out. We need one area we’re proud of, then it spreads.
There are tons of cleanup projects, but the city is still dirty. In my opinion, start from the Main Street Bridge and radiate outward.
James:
Tim, I think your mission gives us something to think about. The proof is in the pudding. Thank you for your initiative and doing your small part. It’s inspiring.
Thank you for joining us and sharing it with everybody. For Tim’s initiative and social media, you’ll find that on the show sheet below this video.
This has been On a Mission. I’m James Fenimore, this is Della Sellers. Take care, everybody.
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