From Memphis, Tennessee comes a Thanksgiving story about sweet potatoes.
40,000 pounds of sweet potatoes – collected by the Church of the Holy Communion. They call it the annual “Crop Drop.” It’s becoming a Thanksgiving tradition in the Mid-South.
Tens of thousands of pounds of sweet potatoes were bagged up by volunteers and delivered to Thanksgiving tables across the city. All donated by Tennessee farmers.
The Reverend Sandy Webb delivered a prayer asking God to bless every table that receives the sweet potatoes, television station WREG reported.
Now, the sweet potato is not the most attractive root vegetable in your garden. But in the hands of a Southern grandmother – that reddish-brown spud can become a souffle or a casserole.
Many folks around Memphis and the nation won’t be able to afford to fill their tables or bellies on Thursday, but the parishioners at Holy Communion Church are hoping to change that.
The Bible tells us that God’s tender mercies are new every morning. And sometimes those mercies taste like a delicious, homemade sweet potato pie.
