Good works have an unspoken effect on those who do the giving as much as on those who receive. Sometimes it’s outside our comfort zone to get involved with others’ plights, but laundromat owner Samuel Van De Cruze of Queens, New York, did it anyway.
On March 28, Van De Cruze picked up laundry from a homeless shelter, 5000 lbs. of it, and washed, dried, folded and delivered it back to people who were accustomed to spending up to $30 to do the weekly wash.
“As a Christian, I’ve been taught to do good works,” he said.
Christian or not, it’s a practical matter to have clean clothes, whether for a job interview or to simply feel proud. And those who were walking to a laundromat with a couple or three kids who didn’t want to go, likely gave this man a lot of thought on Easter Sunday.
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