Scarlette Jasper | Southern Kentucky
Scarlette Jasper is a Cooperative Baptist Fellowship field personnel serving with Together for Hope, CBF’s rural development coalition, in the Appalachian foothills of southern and south-central Kentucky. A longtime champion for the economically disadvantaged, Scarlette ministers within some of the poorest counties in the United States. The majority of the counties in which Scarlette serves are considered “distressed” counties on the basis of low per capita income and high rates of poverty and unemployment.
Scarlette has been involved in nonprofit work with disadvantaged communities for more than 27 years, serving in leadership positions locally and nationally for various organizations. Scarlette is the Director of Olive Branch Ministries, which serves individuals and families in crisis, including individuals experiencing homelessness, survivors of domestic violence and families in financial and medical crisis.
While she assists families with financial counseling, job-readiness skills, and applying for additional benefits and services, Scarlette strives to meet physical needs as well, including food, shelter, clothing and other basic necessities. Scarlette also coaches others to meet emotional and spiritual needs through classes, counseling referrals and Bible studies.
Drawing on local assets, Scarlette partners with schools, housing authorities, churches, agencies and other local entities to organize grassroots campaigns that enable the materially poor to gain traction in society.
Many of us at First Baptist Sylva know Scarlette. Her birthday was April 9. Please send her a belated Birthday Card to the following address: 458 Deerfield Lane, Somerset, KY 42501.
Learn more at www.cbf.net/jasper.