When Dutch Bros employees noticed a woman in line for coffee Saturday was visibly upset, they offered to talk.
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Barbara Danner was waiting in line behind the impromptu prayer circle and snapped a photo, which she posted to Facebook. When the staff found out, they stopped to pray with her, wrote Danner.
The other two employees quickly joined in to pray with them, even though one of them, 21-year-old Evan Freeman, isn’t even religious.
“I hope that she is starting to find some solid ground, because when I saw her face it looked like her entire floor got ripped from under her and she was falling”, another employee, Evan Freeman, told KATU. It just happened to be religion that she wanted, ‘ he told Oregon Live. Since Danner posted a photo of the moment to Facebook, it’s garnered over 93,000 shares and over 319,000 reactions. Coffee stand clasped the hand of a patron and prayed with her right there in the drive-thru lane, asking for a bit of grace and healing for the woman behind the wheel whose husband died the previous night. They said they wanted to make her feel happy.
“Her husband passed and as soon as she said that, I’m like, ‘there’s nothing more you need to say, we got this, ‘” said Freeman. It’s since gone viral.
“I don’t think the picture does that moment justice because it was such a real moment”.
“We encourage them to pour love out of that window in whatever way is comfortable for them”, she said.
On hearing the news, the 19-year-old told KPTV he said to his co-workers: “There’s nothing more you need to say.
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It’s a small price to pay”, Dunn said.
