…urging others to spread the same love she received from Atkins.
“It was overwhelming, the love that she gave me being that she didn’t know me, still doesn’t know me,” Person said, saying she had been going through a tough emotional time, unbeknownst to Atkins. “I pray that metaphorically you wash the feet of someone else, you do something that pulls you out of your level of comfortability and serve someone else. It’s so much deeper than her washing my feet but it’s simply us serving one another.”
Note, it was later found out that Essence and her husband are in fact, ordained ministers in real life.
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