“No kid sleeps on the floor in our town” - Luke Mickelson

Kind Hearted Man Creates Beds to Give to the Needy

Not all people have the opportunity to have a good and comfortable life.

Some experience luxury and others don't. Like jumping into a cozy bed after a long day is one of the greatest pleasures we can have. But not all can afford this pleasure and one man saw this heartbreaking reality and wanted to do something about it. 

Happy kids who received their own bed from Luke.

In 2012, Luke Mickelson of Idaho was shocked when he discovered that there were children in his community that didn’t get to sleep in a bed at night.

He saw one little girl sleeping on a nest of clothes, he described it - "looked like a little bird’s nest. And that’s what she slept on, that’s what her bed was."

And from there, he decided that these people needed help, and it was the first time he donated a bed that he built with his own hands.

Luke Mickelson

“When we delivered the bed, she hugged it and just couldn’t let go,”  Luke recalls.

And it was from that point on that he decided he would dedicate his life to making sure children have a restful night’s sleep in a cozy bed of their own.

Mickelson is a God-fearing man with a great career. He then started buying wood and supplies to build beds with his own money. And to make more beds, he would get family and friends to help out too.

Sleep in Heavenly Peace workshop

Mickelson and volunteers built 11 bunk beds in his garage for his first ever project and 15 more the following year. Those numbers began to double each year. 

And by 2017, they had built a total of 612 bunk beds. Eventually, he set up a charity, Sleep in Heavenly Peace, that used training courses and construction manuals so that local chapters could be set up in other communities.

Luke Mickelson makes handmade beds for the needy.

Now there are about 70 chapters of Sleep in Heavenly Peace in 30 states across the country.

Sleep in Heavenly Peace volunteers help to make beds for the needy.

They have built beds for more than 3,500 children to sleep in.
As his charity grew, Mickelson had to decide whether to continue making lots of money at his job or growing his nonprofit. He decided that he would quit his job of 18 years and go and continue his charity work.

Sleep in Heavenly Peace

Many of the people who request beds from his organizations are single parents escaping abusive relationships or foster parents where grandparents and other family members are helping to care for children. Others are formerly homeless people who are getting back on their feet.

Sleep in Heavenly Peace to provide beds for needy children.

Those who want to request a bed and those who would like to donate to the organization, they can visit www.shpbeds.org

“No one has ever become poor by giving.”

- Anne Frank