|
Home / Reelfoot Rural Ministries
Reelfoot Rural MinistriesReelfoot Rural Ministries
In February 1963 Mrs. Perry Butler and Mrs. Wesley McKinnie started on a dream toward improving the lives of underprivileged rural children. Their first act was to establish a Sunday School in a long-unused Methodist Church at Mooring. Efforts were begun to secure a deaconess who could develop this project, but it was not until September 1965 that Miss Pauline Precise was secured for this task. Nine years later this dream became a reality with the dedication of a $100,000 building made possible by a five-acre gift of land from Mr. and Mrs. Ernest Maloney of Hornbeak and by the financial backing of the Methodist conference, the Methodist conference WSCS and Mr. Hyde and his daughter, Mrs. Jane Scott of Memphis. The project is now known and supported, far and wide, as Reelfoot Rural Ministries.
First United Methodist Church actively supports the mission of Reelfoot Rural ministries. Their mission is to provide personal encouragement, material assistance, helpful training and spiritual guidance to children, the elderly, and low-income families in rural Northwest Tennessee and Southwest Kentucky, in a manner that enhances self-esteem and encourages self-support. First Church participates in RRM’s annual toy and food drive; sends volunteers to help when the need arises; gives ongoing financial assistance through an annual district offering and special appeals. In the picture above, Helen Lovell and Bro. Ed Endsley look at items donated for the UMW craft fair, proceeds from which provide additional funds for RRM.  
|
LoginMenu |
