Red Bird Mission (Beverly, Ky.).

Abstract

Helen Beech (1901-1982) served at the Red Bird Mission in Beverly, Kentucky, from July 1925 through November of 1927.  Beech, originally from Altoona, Pennsylvania, taught in Altona after graduating from the Indiana State Normal school. In 1925, Beech started her mission work in the mountains of Kentucky as a teacher at the Red Bird Mission in Beverly, Kentucky.  After she served at Red Bird, Beech married the Rev. Dr. Chester Stewart Simonton.

Abstract The Board of Missions of the mid-western based Evangelical Church began considering the eastern Kentucky’s Red Bird River region for a home mission project in 1919. On the recommendation of Rev. William Buyers, a Presbyterian minister from Hyden, Leslie County, Kentucky, a Board appointed committee visited the area and found that residents were receptive to the idea of a mission. The first Mission worship service was held in a tiny schoolhouse at Beverly in Bell County on May 29, 1921. The...

Abstract The Settlement Institutions of Appalachia (SIA) was founded in 1970 as a non-profit consortium of private service institutions in South Central Appalachia. Leaders of the twelve founding institutions envisioned it as a mechanism to facilitate exchange of ideas, cooperation in program development and fund raising. The first executive committee of the board of directors consisted of Chairman, John Ramsay - John C. Campbell Folk School; vice-chairman, Robert Fulton - Henderson Settlement;...