Topics:<\/b> Business; Character; Giving; Integrity; Ministry; Obedience; Sabbath; Work<\/p>\n
References:<\/b> Matthew 25:34\u201340; James 1:22<\/p>\n
Truett Cathy, the founder of Chick-fil-A restaurants, is a successful businessman, but many know and respect him more for how faith guides his work.<\/p>\n
For example, Cathy\u2019s restaurants have been closed on Sundays since 1948. The seventy-nine-year-old CEO of the nearly one thousand Chick-fil-A restaurants doesn\u2019t mind losing millions of dollars of business to honor the Lord\u2019s Day.<\/p>\n
Also, at his first restaurant in 1948, Cathy hired Eddie J. White, twelve, an African-American. This was an unpopular choice during a time of segregation. Cathy also mentored an orphan, Woody Faulk, from the time Woody was thirteen. Woody eventually became vice president of product development at Chick-fil-A.<\/p>\n
Cathy also developed a successful foster home system called WinShape Homes. There are now eleven homes in the United States and one in Brazil. His daughter Trudy and son-in-law John were Southern Baptist missionaries at the Brazil home for ten years. His Camp WinShape and the WinShape Foundation provide scholarships for kids and college students.<\/p>\n
One of Cathy\u2019s favorite sayings is \u201cIt\u2019s easier to build boys and girls than to mend men and women.\u201d So Chick-fil-A Kids Meals don\u2019t come with promotional toys from the latest popular movie; instead, they offer VeggieTales books, audiocassettes of Focus on the Family\u2019s \u201cAdventures in Odyssey,\u201d and other character-building materials.<\/p>\n
Woody Faulk gives a good summary of Cathy\u2019s character: \u201cA lot of people look on Truett as Santa Claus, but he\u2019s not. He\u2019ll meet you halfway so that you can learn a lesson from the process. He\u2019s the personification of James 1:22: \u2018Do not merely listen to the word, and so deceive yourselves. Do what it says.\u2019 I sincerely owe my life to that man.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u2014Tom Neven, \u201cA Doer of the Word,\u201d Focus on the Family Magazine<\/i> (September 2000)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Topics: Business; Character; Giving; Integrity; Ministry; Obedience; Sabbath; Work References: Matthew 25:34\u201340; James 1:22 Truett Cathy, the founder of Chick-fil-A restaurants, is a successful businessman, but many know and respect him more for how faith guides his work. For example, Cathy\u2019s restaurants have been closed on Sundays since 1948. The seventy-nine-year-old CEO of the nearly … Continue reading “HONORING
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