Southern Tidings for 1984
JUNE, 1984 SOUTHERN AFT .OAL C...1,..AN OF THE 50,HF RN 050.. CONFERENCE OF SEVEN,. OP, ADVENT STS ks We° W The Dream Continues The Dream Continues by John M. Lew Nestled among the Blue Ridge Mountains of up work in western North Carolina. Spalding western North Carolina is a 103-bed hospital, an contacted Brownsberger concerning the academy with 200 students, and a 165-student property. Mrs. White was consulted, and, with elementary school. And that is only the her encouragement, the farm was purchased for beginning. Also located there is an 875-member $5,000. church, a health food store, numerous From that beginning, 74 years ago, Fletcher physicians' offices, a farm, small press, bakery, has grown into a successful and respected and pharmacy. medical and educational center. Behind the development of this 1,000-acre institution is a story steeped with history. In Within a 25-mile radius of Fletcher Hospital addition to being an educator, writer, and and Academy live more than 3,250 Seventh-day editor, A. W. Spalding was a colporteur. As he Adventists, most of them belonging to canvassed his way down the mountain roads of congregations spawned by the Fletcher church. rural Henderson County he learned of a New Medical Facility Planned 450-acre farm for sale. Ellen White had visited the area and encouraged Sidney Brownsberger, For the past five years plans have been first president of Battle Creek College, to take underway to construct a new hospital on Approximately 1,500 students have graduated from Fletcher Academy. Enrollment for the 1984-85 school year is projected at 200.
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