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New Home Serving Special Needs Adults Dedicated, Second Home Announced

New Home Serving Special Needs Adults Dedicated,
Second Home Announced

August 27, 2007

Leaders and members of the community celebrated the opening of The Asheboro Home with a special dedication ceremony on Sunday. The new facility is operated by Baptist Children’s Homes of North Carolina (BCH) and will be home for six developmentally disabled adult women from the Randolph County area. Approximately 200 guests attended the event on the property of the new home including Asheboro mayor David Jarrell and Randolph County Board of County Commissioners chairman Harold Holmes.

The Asheboro Home will be a part of Eagle Oaks Ministry and is the culmination of a 17-year-old dream shared by a group of Randolph County residents who envisioned building this type of facility to provide care for children with developmental disabilities.

BCH’s Developmental Disabilities Ministry (DDM) provides long-term residential care and opportunities for residents to achieve goals and reach their highest level of independence in community-based, gender-specific group homes. A nonprofit institution, BCH operates DDM homes throughout the state.

The Asheboro Home is located on the Cross Road Retirement Community campus which is owned by Cross Road Baptist Church. The church sees the new home as a compliment to its retirement community.

Michael Ayers, an Asheboro businessman and father of a developmentally disabled adult, led a campaign to raise the funds needed to build the home. Churches, businesses, organizations and other friends in the community were instrumental in helping BCH raise the necessary funds to build the facility. BCH also received a grant from the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD). HUD will own the home and BCH will provide the services and the staff.

During the event, it was officially announced that a new fundraising effort is beginning to construct a second home on the same property. The home will provide care for as many as six adult male residents.

Since 1885, Baptist Children’s Homes of North Carolina has helped children and families in crisis. BCH began with one campus, Mills Home in Thomasville, but now provides services in communities across the state.

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