Annie Armstrong Easter Offering 2025 – Week of Prayer Day 2
“Let us do good to everyone.” That admonition from Galatians 6 led Leo and Miosha Robinson to do something completely unexpected. They planted Good Church on the north side of Flint, Michigan, in one of the nation’s lowest-income neighborhoods, and then they started Good Laundry. “There was no laundromat here and people couldn’t afford to go elsewhere,” Leo says. “So that’s how we decided to do good. Now I can’t wait to spend eternity in heaven with someone because they were washing clothes here at our church.”
It was not the answer they expected to hear.
When God called Leo and Miosha Robinson to start a church, they walked the streets of their low-income Flint, Michigan, neighborhood and asked people, “What do you need?”
The unexpected answer was a laundromat. “Single moms told us that if they wanted to do laundry, they would have to take a bus across town,” Leo says. “It would take most of the day and sometimes cost over a hundred dollars. Kids would not go to school and people would miss work just because they did not have clean clothes. These families were having to choose between laundry or keeping the water on in their home.”
40.7% of Flint residents live below the poverty line.
That’s why shortly after the Robinsons started Good Church in Flint, they opened a low-cost laundromat in the lower level of their church. Now, Good Laundry is not only meeting a need, it’s creating opportunities to share the gospel. “God said do good to all people,” Leo says, “and that’s how He grew this church. Now, we see baptisms and kingdom moments happen-all because of a laundromat. Isn’t that amazing?”
NAMB, AAEO, Flint, MI
Pray for…
- The development and discipleship of new leaders at Good Church.
- People in Flint who have experienced pain and trauma, that Good Church would be able to meet them with the hope of the gospel.
- The large number of teenagers in the neighborhood who are hearing the gospel for the first time.