Media
Ignores Chick-fil-A's Christian Charity in Ice Storm
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 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.
If you live in the
Birmingham area, make sure you stop in and visit the Chick-fil-A near Highway
280 to thank them for their generosity and Christian example. While
you’re there, order something to eat and give them your business as I think
they deserve it.
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