Wade Milyard heard the voice from “out of nowhere” and knew he needed to listen—he thought it was God, or some other higher power, calling him into action.
It started a few years ago when the former canine officer for the Frederick Police Department in Maryland was responding to a domestic dispute at a homeless camp.
Soon after he investigated the disturbance, the voice rang out.
“Ask them about their laundry…”
Milyard heeded the voice, asked the question, and unknowingly set the course for a prayer-fulfilling future. The homeless couple he interviewed told him they typically washed their laundry in a nearby creek.
The cop never forgot that response, nor his call to service. He pooled multiple donations with some of his own money and went to work creating a full service laundromat on wheels. Fresh Step Laundry was born—with a mission “to help restore dignity to the unhoused community by providing free, accessible, and hygienic laundry.”
Since retiring from the police force in January, the 45-year-old has been traveling around his Maryland city, which is near D.C., making a difference—one load of wash at a time.
He’s set a schedule so people can meet him to take advantage of his laundry service, and his email is at the bottom of the web page.
He never charges a single cent, but his work yields substantial dividends.
“If you’re clean, you just feel better,” a man named Chris Washington told Steve Hartman in the CBS video below.
“You feel a little bit more proud of yourself.”
“That’s the thing,” Milyard said “ You’re doing it to maybe give them a little bit of a boost. If having clean clothes can help them just a little bit, then my mission is fulfilled.”
In the last several weeks alone, Fresh Step has washed more than 2,000 pounds of laundry and his next goal is to add a second vehicle so he can double the number of people he can serve.
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The mission that started with a voice from out of nowhere keeps spinning forward—and there will be even more impact in the next cycle.
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