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Paul Schmitz

Co-Founder and Executive Director of ShowerUp, a nonprofit providing mobile showers and hygiene services to people experiencing homelessness.

Co-Founder and Executive Director · ShowerUp

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Who We Are
ShowerUp — Official organization biography identifying Schmitz as Co-Founder and Executive Director.
‘The best thing they could do’: ShowerUp Wichita provides a unique resource for unhoused people
KMUW — Independent public-radio reporting corroborating Schmitz as ShowerUp's founder.

Identity record last verified 2026-09-06.

Episodes with Paul Schmitz

Stories of Good Work

Paul Schmitz, Founder of ShowerUp

Get full access to The Redemption Project Newsroom at newsroom.theredemptionproject.news/subscribe Paul Schmitz thought Christian radio would be his lifelong career. Then God took him on a left turn. In this Season 5 Good Works episode of The Redemption Project , Brandon Burley talks with Paul Schmitz, founder of ShowerUp , a ministry providing clean, private, hot mobile showers and laundry services for people experiencing homelessness. Paul shares how a simple act of serving meals grew into a national ministry, how a box truck became the first ShowerUp unit, why consistency builds trust on the street, and why the work is never really about soap and water. It is about dignity. It is about relationship. It is about helping people feel human again.

S5 E5

September 6, 202617

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