Employees at a Dutch Bros. coffee shop in Vancouver, Washington prayed with a grieving customer on March 18.
A picture was snapped by Barbara Danner, who was waiting in the drive-thru behind the grieving customer, reported King 5. Danner said in a Facebook post that the woman lost her husband the night before. The woman was still in an emotional state, unable to keep her emotions at bay in front of the employees. The employees stuck their heads out, grabbed the woman's hand and prayed with her.
Snapped this picture while waiting in line at the Dutch Bros on 138th Avenue today. Turns out the young lady in line...
Posted by Barbara Danner on Saturday, March 19, 2016
Prince Dunn, one of the employees praying in the group, said they were trying to empathize with the grieving woman. "She was showing raw emotion towards us so we gave it right back to her," Dunn said.
Evan Freeman, another employee in the photo, couldn't help but notice her and joined the prayer also, according to KCTV5.
"She's like, 'She's just having a really bad day. Her husband passed.' And as soon as she said that, I was like, 'There's nothing more you need to say. We got this. We're going to do what we do every time we get someone who’s in pain or hurt. We're going to give them our love,'" said Freeman.
Even the owner, Jessica Chudek, was surprised to see her employees doing this act of kindness.
"I thought, 'That's great our company does that and we can show love out the window that way.' I started studying it a little more and I said, 'Wait, that's Evan and Pierce! That's my stand, those are my kids!' So it just brought me to tears right then," she said.
As of March 22, the post has been shared more than 75,000 times and received more than 9,000 comments.