Jennie Mitchell’s Ministry at Calvary Chapel, Costa Mesa, CA
Quote from Chuck Smith about Jennie Mitchell provided by Calvary Chapel:

"I always remember with fondness dear Mother Mitchell who is one of those
unusual outstanding people that you meet once in a lifetime. I’ve met two of them
so I must have lived two lives. Mother Mitchell was one of those beautiful saints of the
Lord who had been walking with Jesus for over eighty years. She was in her nineties
[ed. note, eighties-early nineties] when she was around here. Loved the young people, loved to come around because of The Jesus People. Loved the music groups, the rock groups. She was a special kind of a person.

The last time I was with her we were flying together back to Pennsylvania where I was to hold some meetings.
At that time Daniel Amos was going back with us to do the music for those meetings.
She was to leave me in Pennsylvania and was to go over to Africa doing some
missionary work over there. In her nineties, heading off to Africa to do some
mission work and she said, “If I die in Africa, just bury me there. Don’t bother
bringing my body back here. I’ve been around this body long enough. Just bury
me there.” She did die in Africa and was buried there.

The thing that I loved about her was that she always wore a corsage. This beautiful little
ninety plus year old woman always had this beautiful corsage. If you would ask her about
the corsage or what’s the special occasion. She said, “I’m waiting for the bridegroom to
come and I want to be ready when he comes for me.” She always wore the corsage in
anticipation that her bridegroom is coming to receive her so she wanted to be prepared.

That’s pretty much the attitude that Jesus said we the church should have, being prepared, being ready, “knowing not the day or the hour,” and thus that being ready for the bridegroom to come." - Chuck Smith