Kentucky River
Vol. IV, No. 6
November, 1978
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south to Kentucky again where, with Reverend Beiting's approval, he became Head Volunteer at St. Clare's Church in Berea. In the next year Mo and Reverend Beiting exchanged ideas about the possi bility of establishing a Group Home for boys. Mo felt, with some con viction, that he wanted to continue his ministry in the area of rehabili tation, and that fitted nicely with a persistent dream of Reverend Beiting to establish a Group Home for troubled youth of Appalachia. At
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tucky River and Camp Nelson was found to be suitable for CAP's needs. On the sparsely populated Jessamine County side of the Ken tucky River (North side), across a wooden bridge and up a half mile of winding gravel road, the CAP Group Home for Boys was estab lished. Mo put in another year on the new home with Bob, a licensed electrician and some other help, and the farm was readied for CAP's charges. In August of 1975 the
For fourteen years Mo Mercier was a Missionary Brother in Mass achusetts, directing family retreat programs. In 1971 he brought a group of 18 young adults to Ken tucky for a summer of spiritual re newal. That summer had consid erable impact on him. Two years later he asked for a leave of absence from his community and traveled the same time Mo was spending some time with representatives of the State Department of Rehabili tation Services. Before the Group Home could receive its first boy it had to be licensed by the State, and this involved considerable adminis trative preparation. The Home could be realized, and the State of Ken tucky was interested, even enthusi astic, about the program, but first the required administrative prepara tion must be accomplished. A farm, not far from the Ken-
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