By Jenny Greene
Red Bird Mission in Beverly, Kentucky, was founded in 1921 in the southeastern corner of the mountains of Kentucky. Its story is one of deep faith in God, and continues today to serve those less fortunate in the abandoned coal mining areas of the Appalachians.
Red Bird Mission offers health care, education through their Christian school, and many other outreaches to seniors and disabled. The work camp program enlists volunteers to maintain mission facilities, and includes community home repair and improvement.
First UMC of Hershey sent Volunteers In Mission Jeff Black, Colleen and Rick Heffner, Jill and Mike Bandy, Vicki and Joe Peters, and Jenny and Wallace Greene to serve. They rebuilt a rotten kitchen floor from ground up, dug a French drain, did some roof work for a couple who had fostered 38 high school girls in their lives. This couple certainly had an incredible testimony of their faith. The team also helped to make and install gutters for an elderly woman.
