Bates Reed brings 40 years of hospitality and community building experience. From opening 26 hotels throughout the southeast..to managing the international incentive and tourism markets for the Orlando Convention and Visitors Bureau.. Bates’s work is considered to be one that spreads a message of hope and inspiration for those interested in building alternative sustainable models along with practical application in individual’s lives who are seeking a balance in physical, spiritual as well as emotional balance as folks wake up to the possibility of creating platforms for better, healthier ways of finding peace..happiness..through grounding and sustainability. He currently directs efforts of Chi Farms and Markets in collaborating with local businesses including farmers, growers, bakers, artisans, and all other small local businesses they are choosing to build a local alternative network..based on dynamic governance models and collaborating with organization like Resource Network to bring alternative economic models into the world based in love..the gifts of gratitude.. community by community. He believes our work begins within..so we start with our individual wholeness and work outward from there leaving politics and religion to those that prefer a third-dimensional reality-based in separation. His work along with those he collaborates with is based in cooperation and inspiration. Check out this community work at www.chimarkets.life His work is based on building and directing efforts in Chattanooga TN in building an alternative sustainable food and service economy and network. “Our work is life transforming, ” Bates says. OUR work which means collaborating and building teams of people taking us into a new way of living where we can sustain ourselves when economies suffer and old models fall. We have developed models for change for good while developing community with tools gathered during a lifetime. Bates is the Pastor of Chi Life Ministries in Chattanooga, TN.