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Box 11

 Container

Contains 1 Result:

Red Bird Mission records

 Collection — Multiple Containers
Identifier: BCA 0044-SAA 044
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...
Dates: 1920 - 1985