Robert L. Caldwell, Jr. has over twenty years social service experience.   He is the founder or co-founder of several different social and human service initiatives including; Break Dividing Walls, a series of workshops and learning experiences that address the issue of racial, ethnic, and economic bias in America, Family to Family, a family support co-op focused on empowering families to break the cycle of government dependence, and the Faith Based Partnership Initiative, an innovative community development effort seeking faith-based solutions to the problems faced by the urban poor.

In 1991 he moved into a then notorious low-income apartment community on the east side of Columbus called Greenbrier, and helped found the Greenbrier Residents Enrichment Center (now TEACH -The Enrichment Association for Community Healing).  There he also started Greenbrier Christian Fellowship, the first of three congregations he has pioneered over the years. For over ten years Robert served in various capacities with TEACH, most recently as Executive Director of Operations responsible for the supervision of three TEACH Service Centers, and five different faith-based programming efforts.   While with TEACH he cultivated a greater understanding of how race and class bias had become institutionalized and how it was a contributing factor in keeping people on welfare and mired in various forms of government dependence. He also began to realize the "enabling" role that our western orientation to church plays in propagating the race and class divide in America. 

In 1993 he began developing Break Dividing Walls as an effort to help a few local churches embrace a vision for more racially and ethnically diverse congregations.  Over the years this effort has evolved into a series of workshops and learning experiences that connect the historic roots of racial and ethnic bias to the problem social issues of today, while offering personal and corporate strategies for overcoming problem biases to nurture the authentic unity between people of different racial, ethnic, cultural, and economic backgrounds.

Today Robert remains not only an outspoken advocate for the church to reclaim her historic role in life transforming reconciliation and unity, he, along with his wife Michelle and their children Caleb, Gabriel, Gabriella, and Charis are currently working and living out that conviction in Weinland Park, a low-income neighborhood south of the OSU Campus area, where they are pioneering a multi-racial multi-ethnic community of faith called Mosaic.