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 their
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,earlier
this year,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 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, 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.
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. Audrey Pitt, manager of the Chick-fil-A,
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 you never heard anything
about this from the mainstream media. Their liberal bias and
intolerance would never allow them to report on a believer in Christ’s company
doing something so positive for so many.
We need to support
this and other such companies that are trying to spread the Good News of the
Gospel through their daily work.
Pass this along
and bypass the media!
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