Miracle Hill Church
by Kelly Hazel
Title
Miracle Hill Church
Artist
Kelly Hazel
Medium
Photograph - Photograph
Description
This is a portrait of the church that stands on Miracle Hill. During the 1950's the church's home for boys and girls ran a mission Farm and needed a new building for the children. Mrs.Noah Smith, a race car driver, became interested in helping them get the new building. She won a contest on the "Queen for a Day" show in New York, and she asked for cement blocks to build the dormatory. Ballard Concrete Company donated beams, and work teams from Indiana and Virginia volunteered to build.
Construction began on the hilltop overlooking the Table Rock area of the Blue Ridge Mountains. They had only a few days to complete the walls when a severe thunderstorm was spotted in the distance. Everyone prayed it would not hinder the construction and the Lord answered. It rained all around the hill, and as close as 50 yards to the work site, but it did not rain atop the hill. That is why they named it "Miracle Hill."
The dormitory was used for many, many purposes while it stood atop the hill from 1959 to 2008 when it was demolished. Now only a marker and the small church remain, but Miracle Hill Ministries has grown into a very prosperous charity.
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May 10th, 2013
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