A Walmart cashier paid a customer’s bill saying, the Lord told me to help her. So the Community raised $35 thousand to help him.
A teenage cashier working at a Princeton, Texas, Walmart to pay for college was rewarded by his community for an act of kindness that went viral on Facebook.
John Lopez, Jr., 19, picked up a woman’s $110 grocery bill when he noticed that she didn’t have enough money ahead of Christmas.
“She started crying and I was like ‘OK, I got you – I got you’,” he told CBS 11. “I just felt in my heart that the Lord told me I had to help her.”
Another shopper, Laci Simms, snapped a photo of John and posted it on social media. She wrote:
“I just witnessed this ‘kid’ pay for a cart of merchandise for a woman in obvious distress about her inability to pay,” Simms wrote. “She was a few people ahead of us and when she had trouble paying her bill, he stepped in and told her if she’d wait, he would pay her total. Ya’ll, it was $110 dollars!”
The post quickly went viral and a GoFundMe page was set up as a chance to give back to him and help him pay for college.Within hours, the Princeton community quickly surpassed the initial goal of $1,000. The fundraiser has collected more than $35,000.