“Amazing ice cream served by amazing people.”

That’s the tagline for Howdy Homemade Ice Cream, a Dallas-based super-premium ice cream company with seven locations nationwide.

Jeff Schiefelbein, president of Howdy Homemade Ice Cream, explained that the company offers jobs to employees with a range of special needs and developmental disabilities — allowing them to use their abilities to serve customers well.

“This ice cream shop is unlike any other place I have ever visited,” Schiefelbein explained.

“We employ special-needs adults — and not just behind the scenes or making the ice cream — but we have folks with intellectual and developmental disabilities that open the store; run the store; manage the store; run the cash register.”

“The question is,” Schiefelbein told EWTN Pro-Life Weekly host Abigail Galván last week, “how can we help them to play their part?” — based on one-on-one intentional coaching. “love and care that then turns into dignified work. And they, our employees, love it.”