CHICKEN IN A BLIZZARD.........
Two years ago Chick-fil-A made national headlines when company president
Dan Cathy spoke out in support of traditional marriage. Liberals and gays
came unglued and launched massive protests against the restaurant chain.
Several mayors spoke out saying they would not allow any more Chick-fil-As to
be built in heir cities.
They tried boycotting the Christian owned company, but that backfired.
Instead, Chick-fil-A had a world record day with many locations selling out of
food to the hundreds of thousands of supporters. Is it any surprise that
the only news the liberal mainstream media has reported concerning
Chick-fil-A has only been the negative?
Remember last week when the ice storm hit the south? The mainstream media
showed footage of miles of cars stranded on the frozen interstates.
Several national news broadcasts that I saw
reported about school kids trapped on busses for almost 24 hours because
of all of the ice and parents going frantic wondering where their kids were.
In all of the icy gloom and doom, I bet you didn’t hear about the heroic
and generous actions of a Chick-fil-A along Highway 280 in Birmingham,
Alabama, did you?
Mark Meadows, owner of the Chick-fil-A closed early the day of the storm
and sent all of his
employees home. However, the employees and Meadows soon discovered that
they were not going to be able to get home with all of the stranded
motorists stuck on the roads. Some of the cars near the restaurant had been
stranded for up to 7 hours.
Audrey Pitt, manager of the Chick-fil-A described the conditions: “Our
store is about a mile
and a half from the interstate and it took me two hours to get there. It
was a parking lot as
far as I could see. At one point there were more people walking than
driving.”
Meadows and his employees fired up the kitchen and began preparing chicken
sandwiches as
fast as they could. They prepared several hundred sandwiches and then
Meadows and his staff headed out and began distributing the hot meals to the
stranded motorists on both sides of Highway 280.
Some of the drivers tried to pay them for the sandwiches, but Meadows and
his employees refused to take a single penny. Pitt explained why: “This
company is based on taking care of people and loving people before you’re
worried about money or profit. We were just trying to
follow the model that we’ve all worked under for so long and the model
that we’ve come to love. There was really nothing else we could have done but
try to help people any way we could.”
However, Meadows and Pitt were not through with their Good Samaritan
efforts. They helped push cars off the roads, up inclines and whatever else
they could do to help. Then they kept the restaurant open overnight so that
stranded motorists could have a warm place to be. A number of motorists
slept in booths or on the benches.
Then in the morning, they again fired up the kitchen and prepared chicken
biscuits for their overnight guests and once again they refused to accept
any payment. During that 24 hour
period, this Chick-fil-A restaurant opened their kitchen, their doors and
their hearts to hundreds of stranded motorists and they did so refusing to
accept any payment. As one source put it, Meadows and his staff lived up
to the words Jesus spoke in Matthew 25:35 which states:
“For I was hungry, and you gave Me something to eat; I was thirsty, and
you gave Me something to drink; I was a stranger, and you invited Me in…”
Their actions were truly generous and heroic as they also braved the
frigid temperatures to hand out hundreds of hot meals to complete strangers.
And I bet you never heard anything about this
from the mainstream media. Had it been a group of homosexuals or
atheists, it would have been all over the news from coast to coast. It was too
much
against their liberal standards to report a Christian company doing
something so positive for so many.
We need to support this and all Christian company's.
Pass this along and bypass the media!
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