I recently came across this story on the internet. When I Googled it to find out who originally reported it so I could attribute it, I found a couple of different sources named, so I don’t know whom to credit. It was too good an example of Christianity in action not to report it, though, so here it is:

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-A’s 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 been the negative?

Remember the recent ice storm that 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.

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 on the front page of the newspapers. It was too much against their liberal standards to report a Christian company doing something so positive for so many.

[Christians] need to support this and all Christian companies.

How do you feel about the lack of coverage of the good deeds of Christians while the media pursue their agendas of political correctness?

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If you abide in Me and My word abides in you, then you shall know the truth, and the truth shall set you free.

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