2006 Annual Children's Homes Offering resources are available for your groups. To order free pew offering envelopes, church bulletin inserts, prayer bookmarks, Annual Offering posters, and promotional video, phone toll free
1 (888) 720-8805.
SEEKING SINGLE ADULTS, MARRIED COUPLES TO SERVE AS PAID RELIEF HOUSEPARENTS:
For opportunities at the Mobile campus, phone Mobile Campus,
(251) 639-1022.
For opportunities at the Dothan group home, phone
Kim McGainey,
(334) 677-7856.
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Poor in health, the Rev. George W. Kierce turned to Alabama Baptist Children's Homes, operating as the Louise Short Baptist Widows & Orphans Home, in 1893 to care for his five young granddaughters. The girls' parents had died a few years earlier, according to written accounts.
Father John Stewart, who had co-founded the ministry two years before their arrival, encouraged Rev. Kierce's involvement in the granddaughters' growth. Rev. Kierce came to Evergreen for visits several times and was often allowed to take the girls to his home for short stays. "One of them died at the Home . . . The other four were reared and educated and became church members and well qualified to enter upon life's labors," Rev. Kierce wrote. "One was taught music, one elocution, another shorthand and typewriting, and the other engaged in the millinery business. Three of them have married good men, and the other one is doing well." The same compassion that Alabama Baptist Children's Homes showed the Rev.
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Kierce was confident that he could trust the Children's Homes to not only provide a long-term home for Minnie Lee, Daisy Herbert, Anna Pearl, Ada Bell, and Mary Ellen, but to also nurture them into responsible adults.
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