This Family Has Been Feeding the Homeless Every Weekend for 22 Years, and They Have No Plans to Stop

Most people look forward to the weekend so they can relax and focus on themselves. Mark Landgrebe, however, spends his Saturday nights feeding the homeless, and he's been doing it for the past 22 years.

Mark, along with his wife Anna, have been feeding the homeless every weekend since 1992. They travel from their home in Montville, NJ to Manhattan every Saturday night in a white minibus they call The Homeless Bus, so that the homeless people living on the streets can have a warm meal, clean clothes, and a friendly face.

The Homeless Bus offers a free meal, comprised of cheeseburgers, soup, bottled water, hot chocolate and snacks. It also provide toiletries, boots, socks and clothes when available. In two 90-minute stops, the Landgrebes serve 150 to 200 people a night.

"When you see what it means to this people… it's incredible," Mark, 49, tells the Good News. "It's one meal in seven days, and it's mind-boggling what it means to these people."

Mark's commitment to helping the homeless began when he attended a Tony Robbins seminar in Hawaii that encouraged people to go out and do good deeds. That Thanksgiving, he went out and fed the homeless, and he did the same thing on Christmas and again on New Year's. It was then he knew that this was something he needed to do more regularly.

"I came to the realization that doing this around the holidays is fine, but let's do this every week," he says. "So, we then started doing it literally every week."

Their 13-year-old son Mark Jr. has been helping his mom and dad with the Homeless Bus since he was one year old. "It's very generous of them," the teen says of his parents' good deeds. "It's very kind."

The bus survives on donations, and everything else is paid for by the Landgrebes. "People shouldn't be afraid to get involved with organizations like ours," Mark says. "There's plenty that need help. We do it with such little resources, and it's so effective! We want to encourage other people to do the same thing."

To donate to keep the Homeless Bus and find out more about how you can help NYC's homeless, visit the Homeless Bus website.

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