Eventually, the Women’s Society was reorganized as the Women’s Fellowship of the Congregational Church and continued to carry on with numerous projects. They have sponsored missionaries to 10 foreign countries, sponsored orphans and migrant worker camps, and the coal miners children’s fund, New Orleans Mission trips, and church youth scholarships.

Locally, they have supported Thermal Belt Outreach, Steps to HOPE, Hospice, Habitat, and Church Youth Mission trips. They have also supported Church Women United, Southern Women’s Conference, and delegates and the World Friendship Council. They have provided books for local elementary schools, the PTA lunch programs for children, helped the sick and infirm in the church and at St. Luke’s Hospital, and have sponsored Girl and Boy Scout Troops.

The community will know the Women’s Fellowship best by sponsoring luncheons and timely speakers several times a year and the Autumn Harvest Sale, which funded many of these programs.

They will celebrate the day with a special Women’s Chorus at service and a speaker from Asheville, Reverend Chrystal Cook, who is a Bible professor from AB Tech.

– article submitted by Janet Joens