The Crossnore School provides hope and healing in a homelike residential education setting for children from families in crisis. Ben Long's rendering of Mark 10:14, “Suffer the little children to come unto me and forbid them not for of such is the kingdom of God,” portrays many faces of Crossnore children and reflects the school's welcome to North Carolina's abused, abandoned, and neglected children as a haven of safety, stability, and love. Founded in 1913 by Mary Martin Sloop, The Crossnore School is a private, non-profit children's home and school in Avery County, North Carolina, licensed through the North Carolina Department of Health and Human Services, with a special niche of keeping sibling groups together. The fresco is located in the E. H. Sloop Chapel, built in 1956 and listed on the National Register of Historic Places.