Anyone who’s ever worked in the food industry knows that tips are everything.
Jeff Louis, a pizza delivery driver from Ohio, knows it better than anybody.
On a Sunday morning in November of 2015, Jeff was called into work early to make a delivery to Life Point Church in Mentor, Ohio.
He picked up the eight pizzas at the store where he works, then drove to the church to deliver them.
When he arrived, “the most amazing thing happened.”
The then-22-year-old was instructed to bring only one of the pizzas up to the pastor on stage.
Not your average delivery.
Life Point Church, Mentor
“This whole church came up,” he said, pausing to hold back tears in a video that quickly went viral, “and gave me over $700 for a tip.”
Unbeknownst to the congregation, Jeff desperately needed the tip. But more importantly he needed the encouragement of hope that accompanied it.
“It’s just truly amazing you know. I’ve been having such a hard time lately, just struggling to stay clean and everything, and I’m just trying to get my life back, and it just really, truly just amazes me that people that don’t even know me just wanted to help me out that much.”