INTERESTING.......
This is a story worth reading, and I bet you have not heard any of this on
radio or TV. Please read it and then pass it along.
TWO years ago "Chick-fil-A" (read as Chick Fillet) 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 on concerning
Chick-fil-A, has only been the negative side? Or were they too ashamed to
admit that?
Remember when the ice storm hit the south and east? 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 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 returned, 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 explained why:
This company is based on taking care of people and loving people before you
are worried about money or profit. We were just trying to follow the model
that we have all worked under for so long and the model that we have 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 "On the spot" reporting of
the mainstream media. Had it been a group of Jews, Muslims, homosexuals or
atheists who have done this, it would have been all over the news from coast
to coast. But maybe it was too much against their liberal standards to
report a Christian company doing a Christian thing, something that was so
positive for so many.
We need to support this kind of Christian attitude and all Christian
company's.
Pass this along and bypass the media!
This is a story worth reading, and I bet you have not heard any of this on
radio or TV. Please read it and then pass it along.
TWO years ago "Chick-fil-A" (read as Chick Fillet) 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 on concerning
Chick-fil-A, has only been the negative side? Or were they too ashamed to
admit that?
Remember when the ice storm hit the south and east? 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 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 returned, 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 explained why:
This company is based on taking care of people and loving people before you
are worried about money or profit. We were just trying to follow the model
that we have all worked under for so long and the model that we have 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 "On the spot" reporting of
the mainstream media. Had it been a group of Jews, Muslims, homosexuals or
atheists who have done this, it would have been all over the news from coast
to coast. But maybe it was too much against their liberal standards to
report a Christian company doing a Christian thing, something that was so
positive for so many.
We need to support this kind of Christian attitude and all Christian
company's.
Pass this along and bypass the media!
Thank you Walter very much. I love hearing about our Christian brother and sisters doing good.
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