Centennial Notes

Year: 1909
Falcon Orphanage in Falcon, NC began taking in children.

During 1908 Evangelist G.B. Cashwell opened rescue homes in Winston-Salem to provide a haven for homeless children and in Wilmington to bring "fallen women" out of the city's brothels.⁽²²⁾ Under the leadership of Pastor H.P. Lott of the Oklahoma City First Pentecostal Holiness Church there was started a Rescue Home in 1908.⁽²³⁾

Falcon Children's Home first accepted children in 1909.

Among the fruits of the Falcon's Children's Homes is the Royal Home in Salemburg, North Carolina which is a special ministry to young women in pregnancy crisis.

Franklin Springs hosted an orphanage from 1919 until 1921. By 1929, Mrs. J.H. Hutchinson had been operating for "some years" the Bethel Rescue Home for Girls in Toronto, Canada.⁽²⁴⁾