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Recipe A Melanie McMillan for Friendship 14 • SEPTEMBER 2023
A Sweet Friendship Refreshes the Soul –Proverbs 27:9– Most of us remember our first best friend. A kindergarten classmate, perhaps, or a neighborhood buddy who loved to ride bikes as much as we did. True friendships make life sweeter, and provide us with a community in which we can feel at home. No doubt many of our growing up memories include eating at a friend’s house, even if it was just grabbing popsicles out of the freezer on a hot summer day. There’s just something about sitting down to a meal - or popsicle - with someone that lends itself to conversation, which is why a supper club can be a great start to lifelong friendships. Ten years ago, Camille and Othel Anding moved to Rankin County from north Mississippi, where Camille had grown up and Othel had lived since they married. They quickly set out to get to know the neighbors in their one-street neighborhood within the Castlewoods subdivision. “I knew there were 24 houses on our street, so I figured that was 48 people, and I thought, ‘We can handle that. Let’s have a party.’” Othel says. The Andings invited every couple on the street to their home for dinner. “I remember thinking how unusual it was for them to be hosting all of us,” says friend and neighbor Roberta Howell. “Usually, it’s the other way around when someone new moves in.” That evening at the Andings gave everyone a chance to spend time together while getting to know the “new kids on the block,” and marked the beginning of several new friendships. “Several of us had been involved in a neighborhood supper club before, but it was not really active at the time,” says Ruth Smith, who has lived on the street for 30 years, along with her husband John Lowe Smith. Having hit it off that night at the Andings, four couples decided to form a new supper club. The Smiths and Andings, along with Bernard and Linda Richards, and Kay and Carson Hughes, kicked it off, and Denny and Roberta Howell joined soon thereafter. Each month, one couple hosts the rest of the group for dinner. “We usually never leave the table,” says Camille. “We’ll sit and talk long after we’ve finished eating.” The couples laugh as they say they don’t discuss politics at supper club. Clearly, any difference of political opinions hasn’t hindered the friendships formed over the last decade, which go well beyond a once a month dinner. These friends and neighbors have seen the marriages of grandchildren and births of great-grandchildren. They have workdays to beautify and maintain the area behind the houses. They check on one another and provide support through the hard times that inevitably come in life, and every morning at 8:00, Camille sends a text to the group with a verse or passage from Scripture. “I know when I hear my phone go off at 8:00 that it’s Camille. I can always count on that.” says Ruth. The past few years have seen a change in the supper club as Bernard and Linda moved to Alabama, and Carson and Kay moved to Starkville. The group stays in touch and gets together when the couples come back to town to visit. “There are many treasures that we experience in our lives, but I can truly say that our time with our dear group of supper club friends will always be a highlight.” says Linda. “It was the joy we felt sitting around each dining table breaking bread together with the knowledge that those gathered loved and Hometown RANKIN • 15
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