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November 21, 2005
Funeral Arrangements, November 21, 10 AM
May the God of all hope and glory keep you and guide you and so may His love overwhelm you with grace and mercy binging you peace and comfort everlasting.
we will be saying our final goodbyes to hadrienne on wednesday, november 23, at lookout mountain presbyterian church on north bragg avenue on lookout mountain. our family will be there to both receive and give comfort from 11 am to 12 pm. the service will begin at 12 in the sanctuary. we have requested that hadrienne's casket be open in the sanctuary between 11 am and 12 for so many of you that want to say goodbye. she left us so quickly. there will be a graveside service afterwards.
anyone who knew hadrienne knew that she was a very focused and passionate person who always gave all she had to others. from the very moment that we learned of ashers tragic accident she stepped in and held gloria and i up. for all these months we have had to give all of our time and attention to asher. everyone has. which means that she has not been able to get any of that from us. i spoke to her about this one day and told her i realized this and could not imagine how hard it was for her. not once did she ever complain or express any bitterness or jealousy.
since asher has been out of his coma and regained so much of his cognitive abilities he has expressed much anger and disbelief in god. he now tells us since hadrienne is gone his faith and trust in god has been restored. without hadrienne he says that he does not have the strength by himself to go on. it was hadrienne, he said, that had been giving him that strength.
gloria and i have talked about where hadrienne would want donations to be given in her memory. as much as hadrienne loved flowers she would love even more to know that her life could continue on in the helping of others which she did so passionately herself, whether it was family, widows with our ministry, a stranger, it didn't matter, she was willing.
hadrienne never wavered in her desire to be a zoologist and do research work with endangered animals, her great love. every summer since she was 14 she went for a week to wassaw island off the coast of savannah to work with the caretta research project under the savannah science museum. she had such a great love for this work and the the two directors over it mike frick and kris carrol (http://members.aol.com/WassawCRP/index.html) donations can be made out to the
Caretta Research Project
PO Box 9841
Savannah, Ga. 31412-0041.
another great love of hadrienne's was rowing. she was on the chattanooga junior rowing team for all 3 years that she was in high school. it truly transformed her life into the self-confident determined person that she had become before this great tragedy. we know that she would want to make it possible for others to be able to benefit from rowing in the lifelong ways that she did and so we are asking that donations be made to chattanooga junior rowing club scholarship fund:
Chattanooga Rowing - William G. Raoul Boathouse
(423) 622-6846
www.chattrowing.org
Mailing Address:
P.O. Box 11286
Chattanooga, TN 37401
and finally, but certainly not least is Ot U' Mofet "a sign and a wonder" in Israel (http://www.restorersofzion.org/restore_mofet.html). hadrienne had a great love for the woman who started this work in israel, orna greenman. orna is a second generation israeli on her mother's side and her father was a holocaust survivor. orna has been the keynote speaker at our annual international widows prayer gathering and conference for the past 4 years. orna, a single mother herself (she has a wonderful teenage son about asher's age, lior) has a growing ministry outreach to young widowed mothers and their children, most of whom are refugees in israel. hadrienne had such a great love for orna that she was intent on going to israel so that she could spend more time with orna.
you can send donations to Ot U' Mofet through Widows Harvest Ministries. We handle all donations for her in the United States. Please make your donations out out widows harvest ministries and enclose a note specifing that they are for orna, or name her organization. 100% of all donations will go to her.
our mailing address is:
widows harvest ministries
po box 2307
chattanooga, tenn 37409
i would ask you to please be generous in your giving to any of these organizations. they can all use, need and depend on charitable giving. please give so that a difference can be made in her name in the lives of others as well as those creatures of god's creation that she was so passionately concerned for. if she were here she would be making that difference in these places herself, but since the lord has decided otherwise please allow her passion's to continue to be fullfilled in her memory.
lord bless you and keep you all. may the god of all creation's name be praised,
in mourning,
andy mendonsa
| By Andy Mendonsa | 9:55 AM
