A teenager from Georgia who had to walk seven miles after school just to get to work each day was just given the gift of a lifetime from a Good Samaritan when she gave him a brand new car!
High school senior Jayden Sutton walked on foot from school to his job at a restaurant before walking back home. Sutton was more desperate than ever to work because his mom was recently laid off, and her car was totaled a few weeks ago.
“I knew if I had to walk to work every day to get a car, that’s what I was going to do,” Sutton explained. “If I had to walk home, then that’s what I was going to do.”
The teenager said that he would leave school at 3:30pm., then walk miles to his job at the restaurant for a shift that would typically last between six and eight hours. He would then walk home, oftentimes not getting there until it was nearly midnight.
Everything changed for Sutton when Lavonda Wright Myers caught sight of him walking down the road in the rain last month.
“The young man was relentlessly in a rush walking to work saying ‘I can’t be late,’” Myers said. “He said, ‘ma’m could you give me a ride please?’ I told him I could take him as far as I was going. I began to create small talk along the way. It was revealed to me that his name was Jayden, 12th grader, works 40 hours a week, walks 5 miles to work everyday immediately after school, gets off at 10:30pm at night and walks back home another 5 miles if co-workers don’t offer a ride.”
Once Myers dropped Sutton off, she was so touched by his heart and determination that it brought her to tears.
“He was smiling in good spirit and that’s a child worth blessing,” she explained to Fox News.
That’s why Myers decided to create a GoFundMe for Sutton, and it quickly raised over $9,000. Myers was then able to convince the general manager of the Nalley Honda dealership in Union City to drop the price of the vehicle to meet the budget, and from there she surprised Sutton with his new car!
“GOD DID IT YALL Plz know GOD PROVIDES Jayden no more walking 7 miles to work after school young man. GOD bless everyone that donated entrusting me & GOD with your seed I declare a 100 fold return,” Myers wrote on the GoFundMe page.
“Everyone from around the world that donated, believed and prayed with me thank you for trusting me with every penny and I bless GOD for your sacrifice,” she added. “I declare it returns to you 100 fold.”
Myers went on to say that Sutton’s mother could not be more grateful, and that she said this act of kindness “has blown her mind”.
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