Biographical Information Shirley Crouse Shirley Crouse is a home missionary with the General Board of Global Ministries serving at Red Bird Mission in Beverly, Kentucky. Shirley explains the program. The program was started in 1973 to provide some needed early intervention before children start school.
Local women serve as home visitors in the home with the children and their mothers.
Once a week the children are taken to a local church for a two-hour group session. One teacher can teach as many as seven centers a week. We not only teach the children but are alert to health and other needs in the families we serve. The thing that has touched me most is to see the growth that has taken place in people's lives as a result of the mission being here. I now have a home visitor who was one of my ECD students.