The Sholly Smile Factory was birthed from a place of deep pain. Pain so deep, it would have smothered me to death had my PapaGod not helped me figure out how to convert the pain into purpose. Each time, I would cry to Him in pain, he would turn my focus to others. ‘In helping others, you will find healing’. He was right. That is how this foundation and indeed, these Rising events came about.