What is the Del Rio and Christy Mission/Ebenezer Mission Site?
The book Christy is based on the real life adventures of the author, Catherine Marshalls mother, Leonora Whitaker. Leonora left her home in December of 1909 to travel to Del Rio, Tennessee to teach at the Ebenezer Mission in Morgan Gap. When Catherine wrote Christy she fictionalized her story by changing the names of the people and the places. For instance Del Rio became El Pano and Morgan Gap became Cutter Gap. Many of the events in the book actually happened to Leonora and John Wood, the young minister whom she served with and eventually married.
