Widows Harvest Blog

1st Church of the Nazarene, Seymour, Indiana, Spring Break Mission Week

Led by youth pastor, Landon Yowell, senior and junior high youth as well as adult leaders spent their spring break with us putting on a the other half of a widow's roof and scraping her house to get it ready for a badly needed paint job. This was a really great group. On Tuesday they spent time praying with the widows and then had lunch with them afterwards. The widows were all overwhelmingly blessed.

Grace Academy Community Service Workday March 10, 2008

Senior high and junior high students from Grace Baptist Academy in Chattanooga,
Partnered with Widows Harvest on their Community Service Workday on March 10, 2008. Two projects were done on widow's homes. The first one was to repair water damage to the floor inside her house and to also divert water running under the back of her house around the sides. The second project was to scrape, prime and paint the exterior of a widow's house as well as to repaint her kitchen.

1st Presbyterian University of Michigan Campus Ministry Spring Break Mission Team

Partnering with Son Servants, a group of University of Michigan college students came to Chattanooga over their spring break to replace a widow's roof that was in critical need of repair. These students are part of First Presbyterian Church of Ann Arbor, Michigan's campus ministry outreach.

Southern Adventist University Community Service Workday January 21, 2008

During their annual community service work day, students, faculty and staff from Southern Adventist University (Collegedale, TN) serve at widows homes under the supervision of Widows Harvest Project Coordinator, Dick Mason.

Widow Receives Late Christmas Of A New Fence

On January 5th volunteers from Cumming, Georgia, who are all part of a small fellowship group that meets in the Home of Chad and Carol Etmueller, came to Chattanooga with their kids to erect a fence around the home of a widow who is raising her 4 grandchildren. The day was particularly cold, but that was certainly offset through an abundance of warm fellowship. By 6 pm the fence was completed and the group packed up and headed home with the knowledge that they had left behind a widow, who, with thanksgiving in her heart, was singing God's praises for this wonderful gift she had received.

McCallie Vestry Students Host Christmas Dinner With Widows

Widows Harvest Prayer Widows with McCallie Students, December 15, 2007

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

3 Groups, 1 Weekend, Scrape and Prime Widow's House, Nov. 10-11, 2007

Covenant College Students, McCallie High School Students and Students from Southern Adventist University Paint widow's house. Bless you!

Annual Widows Harvest Savannah Prayer Gathering and Conference

Widows gather in Savannah on September 14-15 for prayer and fellowship. This video is approximately 10 minutes long, and it does not come close to capturing all that took place over the weekend. Thank you Evelyn (Evelyn Polite is the Director of Widows Harvest Savannah) for the ways we were all so blessed the Lord by being there.

Good News!

For this widow who had her bridge washed out, help is on the way. I just learned from this widow's son-in-law, that a local construction company, Stein Construction, has agreed to take care of this whole need. Praise God!

blessings,
andy mendonsa

Widows Bridge Washed Out, Please Help!

Due to heavy runoff from recent rains this widow's bridge was washed away leaving her no means for leaving her property excepty to climb down into the ditch, walk across the collapsed bridge, and then climb back up the bank on the other side. Both her age and a heart condition prevent both. Which also means that an amublance would have great difficulty reaching her as well. Please pray for the means to, literally, rescue this widow.

Arch Willingham, Widows Harvest Board Member, Assesses Damage

First Annual Widow's Prayer Gathering Atlanta, July 23, 2007

Widow's Hearts' Singing with Joy!

"Bearing Christ's Reproach" Joint Mission Week

Arrival of Lookout Mountain Presbyterian Church Senior High Youth at St. Elmo Ave. Baptist Church for first annual local youth mission week in Chattanooga, Tennessee

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Day Two: Church, Rafting and Orientation

Day Three: The Bethlehem Center

Day Four: Widows Harvest Ministries

Day Five: Church of the First Born

Day Six: Worshipping Through Serving

Widow's Prayer Ministry Begins in Atlanta

Back Row: Andy Mendonsa (Widows Harvest Ministries, Chattanooga), Gail McLaurin Goldstein (Atlanta Widow's Prayer Ministry), Lynn Westergaard (Founder and Director of Resource Services Ministries, Atlanta)
Front Row: Johnny (100), Ruby (95), Julia (83), Founding Members of Atlanta Widows Prayer Ministry.

Johnny, whose house we met in and standing in front of, shares the gift that God gave to her.