Widows Harvest Blog

Annual Widow's Thanksgiving Food Basket Drive, Worship Service and Dinner, 2007

Youth from Lookout Mountain Presbyterian Church pack Thanksgiving food boxes to be distributed to widows. All the food was donated by the Chattanooga Area Association of Realtors, through their annual food drive for widows, and the Ft. Oglethorpe, Ga., Battlefield Civitan Club.

L to R, Brenda Mason, Beverly Jackson, Bob Nabors, Civitan Club Member

Annual Widow's Thanksgiving Service. Dr. Evelyn Polite, Founder and Director of Widows Harvest Ministries Savannah, Georgia, was Our Featured Guest Speaker.

After the Service the Widows Enjoyed a Really Wonderful Thanksgiving Luncheon with the Help of Shonda Cains Catering and Many Loving Volunteers.

Chattanooga Christian Students in the Senior High Community Service Class Volunteer to Carry Widow's Thanksgiving Baskets Out to Their Cars After a Very Delicious Meal and Joyful Time of Fellowship. Debbie Grisham, Their Teacher, is on the Far Left of the Picture.

Dr. Evelyn Polite came to Chattanooga for a several days prior to out annual widow's thanksgiving prayer service and luncheon in order to learn more about the day to day operation Widows Harvest Chattanooga from the inside out, so to speak. As she was about to leave, Friday morning after the Thanksgiving festivities, I asked her if she would sharing what God had done in her life during the time she was with us. The following is that interview, which was tape at the Chattanooga airport just before she departed.

Chiquita Bass Interview with Dr. Evelyn Polite

Blessings,
Andy Mendonsa

UTC Honors Program Students Honors Widows.

Students, with the University of Tennessee at Chattanooga (UTC) Honors Program, recently held a fundraiser to help Widows Harvest continue to help widows with home repair needs in the Chattanooga area. Catherine (Cat) Coffman and fellow Honor's program students raised $3000 dollars, which has now been included in our own Project 100 fundraising initiative (for further details on project 100 please visit our web site, widows.org, and click on the home page link).

A week ago I had the privilege of meeting with Cat Coffman (4th from left) and several other honor's program students at Niedlovs Coffee House, where they presented me with the check. I was so blessed by all of them and their desire to not only raise money for very needy widows, but they also all expressed a desire to come out and serve widows with us in the new year. Getting to meet this group has truly been one of the highlights of my ministry career.

Blessings and Thanksgiving,
andy mendonsa