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Such has long been the case, and many parts of the mountains have had more willing workers than jobs available to them. At Berea, just 17 percent of our graduates travel back to live and work in at-risk Appalachian counties—not because they don’t want to, but because it is exceedingly difficult to find employment."}},{"__typename":"CoreParagraphBlock","attributesJSON":"{\"content\":\"The College remains committed to finding strategies to bring students back to the mountains. Campus leaders should continue to learn more about the barriers preventing students from returning to the region after graduation and to research ways to overcome those barriers. One way to do this may be through partnerships with outside organizations such as the Mountain Association for Community Economic Development<\\/a> (MACED), the Federation of Appalachian Housing Enterprises<\\/a> (FAHE), the Highlander Research and Education Center<\\/a>, or the Stay Together Appalachian Youth<\\/a> (STAY) Project. 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Many alumni have recounted that one of the only churches in the area they could attend, besides Black churches, were churches also established by John Fee. After the College integrated its basketball team, African American players found themselves unable to eat with their teammates, or had to sleep on the campus of the school they were playing because hotels would not admit them.\",\"dropCap\":false,\"anchor\":\"\"}","name":"core/paragraph","attributes":{"__typename":"CoreParagraphBlockAttributes","content":"Until the late 1960s, Berea’s African American student population increased only slowly due to a continued focus on recruitment in Appalachia, which was populated by whites by a substantial margin. The town of Berea, also, had trouble adjusting, for though the College was integrated, the town was not. Many alumni have recounted that one of the only churches in the area they could attend, besides Black churches, were churches also established by John Fee. 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Fee was an abolitionist preacher who sought not only to spread the gospel of Jesus Christ throughout Appalachia, but also to found a school to serve a region without much access to education. Later, as the school became Berea College, Fee insisted it was not to become a \\u201cchurch college,\\u201d and in doing so, he designated separate ministry venues with separate purposes. As he founded a college, he also founded a church nearby, Union Church, where all peoples of the earth, and all peoples in Berea, could worship together. Later in his life, he founded the First Christian Church in Berea.\",\"dropCap\":false,\"anchor\":\"\"}","name":"core/paragraph","attributes":{"__typename":"CoreParagraphBlockAttributes","content":"John G. Fee was an abolitionist preacher who sought not only to spread the gospel of Jesus Christ throughout Appalachia, but also to found a school to serve a region without much access to education. Later, as the school became Berea College, Fee insisted it was not to become a “church college,” and in doing so, he designated separate ministry venues with separate purposes. As he founded a college, he also founded a church nearby, Union Church, where all peoples of the earth, and all peoples in Berea, could worship together. Later in his life, he founded the First Christian Church in Berea."}},{"__typename":"CoreParagraphBlock","attributesJSON":"{\"content\":\"With a college, two churches, and a town growing around them, Fee and his partners founded a community with the shared vision of a world shaped by Christian values like the power of love over hate, human dignity and equality, and peace with justice. And they put those values to the test in the face of fierce opposition from the religious institutions around them. \\u201cThe founders were deeply critical of the prevailing Christianity of the United States,\\u201d said Dr. Steve Gowler, Chair of Academic Division V and associate professor of general studies. \\u201cThey were come-outers (people who sought reform), which is why they formed independent union churches. There were few other churches that would break from the sin of slavery.\\u201d\",\"dropCap\":false,\"anchor\":\"\"}","name":"core/paragraph","attributes":{"__typename":"CoreParagraphBlockAttributes","content":"With a college, two churches, and a town growing around them, Fee and his partners founded a community with the shared vision of a world shaped by Christian values like the power of love over hate, human dignity and equality, and peace with justice. And they put those values to the test in the face of fierce opposition from the religious institutions around them. “The founders were deeply critical of the prevailing Christianity of the United States,” said Dr. Steve Gowler, Chair of Academic Division V and associate professor of general studies. “They were come-outers (people who sought reform), which is why they formed independent union churches. There were few other churches that would break from the sin of slavery.”"}},{"__typename":"CoreParagraphBlock","attributesJSON":"{\"content\":\"In addition to Fee, five of Berea\\u2019s nine presidents have been ordained ministers. In earlier decades the president appointed a \\u201cCollege Preacher\\u201d to oversee community outreach and the spiritual counseling of the campus. \\u00a0In 1971, the Willis D. Weatherford, Jr. Campus Christian Center (CCC)<\\/a> was created to serve as the spiritual hub of campus, and was named for the Berea College president who secured a grant from the Lilly Foundation for its endowment. Identifying the CCC as \\u201cthe heart of the Great Commitments,\\u201d Weatherford envisioned the center as an effort \\u201cto put several distinguished persons of inspiring and challenging Christian ideals at the heart of the intellectual life of the College.\\u201d The center is led by two ministers, and is home to college chaplains and s<\\/a>tudent chaplains<\\/a> who offer pastoral and peer counseling to students, faculty, and staff.\",\"dropCap\":false,\"anchor\":\"\"}","name":"core/paragraph","attributes":{"__typename":"CoreParagraphBlockAttributes","content":"In addition to Fee, five of Berea’s nine presidents have been ordained ministers. In earlier decades the president appointed a “College Preacher” to oversee community outreach and the spiritual counseling of the campus. In 1971, the Willis D. Weatherford, Jr. Campus Christian Center (CCC) was created to serve as the spiritual hub of campus, and was named for the Berea College president who secured a grant from the Lilly Foundation for its endowment. Identifying the CCC as “the heart of the Great Commitments,” Weatherford envisioned the center as an effort “to put several distinguished persons of inspiring and challenging Christian ideals at the heart of the intellectual life of the College.” The center is led by two ministers, and is home to college chaplains and student chaplains who offer pastoral and peer counseling to students, faculty, and staff."}},{"__typename":"AcfImageStackBlock","attributesJSON":"{\"id\":\"block_6356dc3f0d870\",\"name\":\"acf\\/image-stack\",\"data\":{\"images_0_image\":86410,\"_images_0_image\":\"field_image_stack_images_image\",\"images_0_aspectRatio\":\"square\",\"_images_0_aspectRatio\":\"field_image_stack_images_aspectratio\",\"images_1_image\":86402,\"_images_1_image\":\"field_image_stack_images_image\",\"images_1_aspectRatio\":\"square\",\"_images_1_aspectRatio\":\"field_image_stack_images_aspectratio\",\"images\":2,\"_images\":\"field_image_stack_images\",\"stack_direction\":\"horizontal\",\"_stack_direction\":\"field_image_stack_stack_direction\"},\"align\":\"\",\"mode\":\"edit\"}","name":"acf/image-stack","imageStack":{"__typename":"AcfImageStackBlock_Imagestack","stackDirection":"horizontal","images":[{"__typename":"AcfImageStackBlock_Imagestack_images","aspectratio":"square","image":{"__typename":"MediaItem","id":"cG9zdDo4NjQxMA==","altText":"Rev. 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