A mother of two had a roller coaster of emotions on Friday after her car caught fire in a Chick-Fil-A parking lot in Goodlettsville.
Morgan Carter was on her lunch break when her car started to break down.
“I saw some smoke coming out of my hood,” Carter recalled.
Unfortunately, that smoke turned into flames, melting the car, leaving her with no way to get home and no car to help transport her family.
“It was the only car that we had to fit everybody in,” Carter said of the car.
Luckily, Carter was in the right place at the right time. A pastor from Cross Point Church and the manager at the Chick-Fil-A saw the fire happen and decided to do something to help Carter.
“It was just kind of a random act of kindness,” Pastor Pete Wilson of Cross Point Church said.
Carter had never met the manager of the Chick-Fil-A, and she had never been to Cross Point Church, but the restaurant and church decided to pay for a new car for Carter, one that she could drive home that day with no strings attached.
“It was the best thing that could have happened that day, for sure.” Carter said.
Carter’s kids call the new mini-van a spaceship, and she calls it a blessing that will help her family get wherever they’re going for years to come.
“I’ll never forget what Chick-Fil-A and Cross Point Church has done for us,” Carter explained. “I hope to one day to be able to pay it forward to someone else who needs help like we did.”
Cross Point Church hopes to see more people taking initiative and helping those in need, offering help regardless of whether they’ve met someone before or are total strangers.
“It might not be a car,” Pastor Wilson said, “Maybe it’s just giving somebody a hug. Maybe it’s paying for somebody’s Starbucks behind you. There’s hundreds of ways every single day that we can show kindness and generosity to the people around us.”
