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I didn't see anything about this on TV, but, I don't watch the news all the time.

 

 

 

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 buses 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 companies.  

 

Pass this along and bypass the media!  

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Thanks for the post. Did not hear about this (big suprise). They opened one near me a few years ago. With great milkshakes, sandwiches, and a playground, McDonalds has become mc who? Daughters love the place. Me too

 

Do have to admit though, I support them 100% for not being open on Sundays, but still, would be nice to be able to get breakfast from them after church.

 

FWIW I've heard they will only franchise to people who have worked for their chain. Something to the effect that they want their franchisees to understand they are about more then selling sandwiches

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I live 7 miles from that particular Chick-fil-A and eat there frequently. It made local news, but not national news. It is a perfect example of standing up for what you believe in, and still showing grace, brotherly love, and compassion for those who you may not necessarily agree with or throw you under the bus. That is "Christ" centered Christianity the way it should be by those who profess faith in Him. I will continue to do business with them for that reason alone.....Plus I dig their Chicken sandwiches, and service.

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And for the record, this wasn't last week it was a year ago, when all this happened. Forecasters said it would all move north of Birmingham, even on the morning of the storm. Schools didn't close and everyone was stranded on the roads, school, or their places of work by the time they realized that it was making a bee-line for the city. My wife an youngest daughter spent the night at our church, where she works along with dozens of stranded motorists. I fired up the four wheeler to get my oldest from highschool which was only 4 miles down the road, and we had complete strangers that were stranded, that we now have relationships with staying at our house that night. Many others were out on four wheelers that night, bringing blankets, water, and food to those who were stranded. It was good to see people helping others they did not know.

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