A pizza delivery gone wrong is going viral for all the right reasons.
Pastor Neal Seiwert of Castle Rock, Colorado, placed a Papa John’s delivery order for himself and his family over the weekend.
The delivery driver, Suzanna, arrived to drop off the order — realizing at that moment that she had the wrong order with her, Seiwert told Fox News Digital.
“I’m sorry, I’m getting old,” Suzanna told the family, adding that she saw order No. 57 but the Seiwerts were actually No. 67.
“I screwed up. I’m sorry,” she added.
The pastor replied, “Don’t you, for one second, feel bad. We love you and Jesus loves you. And we hope you have a great night.”
The pastor, his wife and their three young daughters then came out to the front porch, placed their hands on the woman’s shoulders and prayed for her.
“When she was explaining herself … I really felt the love of God for her and wanted to do anything I could to relieve any pressure and anxiety she was [feeling],” said Seiwert.
He said he learned to trust his feelings of compassion for a stranger, adding that it can be “an opportunity to shine our light and help someone experience love.”
Seiwert added, “I didn’t want her to experience just our family’s love, I wanted her to experience God’s love too.”
The moving moment was captured on their Ring camera and eventually shared on social media — garnering over a half million likes on Instagram and over 5 million views.
“Jesus, we thank you for Suzanna, and Lord, I thank you that we crossed paths tonight,” Seiwert prayed. “In fact, Lord, she’s more important than any of these orders tonight because you matter to her. She matters to us.”
He closed by saying, “Lord, I just pray you would bless her. I pray that you would open the windows of heaven over her and bring any healing she needs to her body in the name of Jesus, any financial need to her, Lord — and God, that she would encounter you and live for you and follow you [with] everything she has, in Jesus’ name. Amen.”
The Seiwerts later tracked Suzanna down, asking her permission to set up a GoFundMe to help her with her needs.
Seiwert said the support has been overwhelmingly positive.
Their original goal of raising $25,000 for the delivery driver was quickly surpassed in less than two days.
He said he was so touched to see the reaction of viewers and did not expect so much positive feedback.
“So many people are commenting on how it brought them to tears. There are many people who simply just need love,” he said.
“We love. We point to Jesus,” he added. “It’s often [in] the small moments that we have huge opportunities to reach a broken and hurting world.”
A reader replied on social media, “This brought tears to my eyes. God bless that family.”
The Seiwerts are preparing to move to Wichita, Kansas, at the end of this year to begin a church called Harvest House.
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