OSGOOD - When a community comes together to create a place called “Do Good Restaurant and Ministry,” it naturally makes people curious about what kind of “good” is going on here and what kind of food is being created. With one trip to this Darke County destination, friends and families will be delighted to find that they are the ones doing the “good,” and that the food is delicious!

   All tips from breakfast, lunch, dinner, carry out and from the “He-Brews” coffee shop go to a different worthy cause each month. The restaurant’s servers are paid a fair wage and are given information about each month’s selected charity.

   Karen Homan, owner of Do Good Restaurant, located at 25 Main St. in Osgood, said all the credit for this restaurant/ministry goes to God, who gave her the inspiration, boldness, funding and creativity to make this project a true labor of love. Homan also credits fellow believers, whom she felt led to ask for large donations, for making this God-given dream a reality.

   Homan opened the restaurant in December 2019 after months of sharing her vision, raising funds, questioning herself and God, crying lots of tears, considering her family’s wishes and figuring out how to run a restaurant—something she had never done before. But she kept hearing the Holy Spirit prompting her to create this faith-based community space for people to meet and dine for a cause.

   The mother of four grown children and 14 grandchildren, Homan said, “One day I was working in my kitchen and the voice of the Holy Spirit spoke out loud. He said I was to open a restaurant—it would serve as a ministry and I heard Him say there are many good people in the world and they aren’t going to churches, but they are going out to eat for their busy lives and I will show you things to do to draw them back to me. I tried to block it out, but He is persistent,” Homan added. “I woke up one morning at 2 a.m. and started writing. He gave me the names of people who would help and said I should call it ‘Do Good.’”

   Homan shared that God told her the specific location for the restaurant. It was an established, yet struggling business called Silver Spur, a bar-restaurant that had been in the community for several decades.

   While looking into the Silver Spur as a location for Do Good Restaurant, she saw an old black and white photo of children playing on the steps of the Osgood State Bank. She recognized herself as one of the children, which she saw as a sign that this was the right place. When negotiating the price of the building, Homan requested that the photo be a part of the deal.

   As the concept for the restaurant and ministry developed further, Homan experienced many trials that almost made her quit. She credits her priest and the faithfulness of her husband for helping her understand that she wasn’t “going crazy,” rather she needed to follow what she was hearing from God.

   “If you could have a panic attack along with an anxiety attack times a million, that’s how I felt,” Homan described, adding that the Lord told her where to put the restaurant. “He said it would belong to everyone there.”

   So she bought the Silver Spur—and later, the building next door—and transformed it into the centrally located destination restaurant that has been a favorite dining, gathering and learning spot for people to “do good.”