08-AAEO 2025 - aaeo_robinson_flint_main_video_v7

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The 48505 zip code

is one of the lowest income areas
in the country.

And so, we love our city —
but, at the end of the day,

Flint does have some dark moments.

And the moment that GM left
this neighborhood

is when the neighborhood
started to decline.

So why would God want us

to plant a church here
in this area?

Almost 80% of the people in this community
are unchurched.

Isn’t that amazing?

You put those numbers
across the sea,

you’ll see missionaries
go fast over there.

So that right there was the big goal.

God put it on my heart - on our heart -
to start this journey of church planting.

We just simply started asking people,
“What are your needs?”

And they said,
“Listen, there’s not a laundromat

in a 4-mile radius of our neighborhood."

They would have to pay for the bus,

pay for the laundry soap,
pay for the laundromat.

They had to make a choice:
am I going to keep the water on in my home

or am I going to pay over $100
to go to the laundromat?

And so we planted our church,
and we named our church Good Church,

and that same month we started as well
the planning of Good Laundry.

[More than just clean clothes]

And now, we see these moments
where there’s a baptism that’s happened

and kingdom moments that’ve happened
because of a laundromat.

And so for us to be a church plant
where we’re at,

the Annie Armstrong offering
is a blessing to us big-time.

- There is no Good Church without it.
- without it.

- I mean, there’s no way.
- We don’t exist.

It is everything for us.

This offering changes lives.