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Mando and Priscilla Guerrero of Crave Heat stand outside their food truck during a stop outside Salty Nut Brewery. (Sarah Cole/scole@al.com)

HUNTSVILLE, Alabama - The owners behind one of Huntsville's most popular food trucks are calling it quits.

Crave Heat, a 1-year-old bright-blue mobile food vendor called "Congo," will no longer serve fresh salsa, homemade tortillas, tacos, carne asada fries or any of its other well-known Tex Mex dishes. Owners Mando and Priscilla Guerrero are getting out of the business so they can refocus on their family and Christian faith.

Mando, who also works full-time for Northrop Grumman in Cummings Research Park, said he and his wife felt launching Crave Heat "was God's call," but things kept going wrong.

"We've had transmission problems, personnel problems, equipment problems (which have all been resolved now), but we always found the time to take care of these problems," he announced on the Crave Heat Facebook page. "That itself, was the problem. The fact that we took matters into our own hands and it wasn't of God."

The Guerreros, who moved to Huntsville from Texas about five years ago, purchased the truck in Dallas in early 2013 with the intention of feeding the homeless in Huntsville. Although they were successful in doing that, Mando said they "let go of God" in the process.

Priscilla and Mando are raising three young boys, from 20 months to 6 years old. When she and her husband realized "they were drifting away from the Lord" and losing precious time with their sons, Priscilla said they decided to close Crave Heat indefinitely.

"We needed to change something," she said. "Even though the food truck was very successful, if something is keeping you from the Lord, you definitely have to shut it down. More important than anything is our relationship with Him."

The Guerreros, who plan to volunteer with Manna House's HOPE on Wheels project, have leased the vehicle to a Madison County couple that will reopen the food truck in the Meridianville and Hazel Green areas. Priscilla said the couple will lease the truck for six months before deciding whether to renew the agreement or purchase the vehicle.

The Huntsville food truck scene has exploded in the last two years, even inspiring two food truck locator mobile apps and the wildly-successful downtown street food gatherings. Priscilla, who operated a snow cone cart with her husband before launching Crave Heat, is open to trying it again someday when her kids are older.

"They're so young," she said. "Right now is the time to plant the right seeds in them and raise them right so they can know God and go on the right path."