Empowering People
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Blessing Hands

Plum Blossoms

Blessing Hands Board of Directors

Mrs. Betty Cutts

President and Founder

Betty Cutts Betty is a housewife and community volunteer with a Master’s Degree in Elementary Education.  She has taught as a volunteer teacher in a nursing home, many vacation Bible schools, enrichment classes at Rowan County Middle School, an English as a second language (ESL) program that her church, and two summer English camps in China.  She has also served as a volunteer court appointed special advocate (CASA), hospital Pink Lady, and with Meals on Wheels.  Presently she is chairperson of the Yangshuo Committee of Morehead Sister Cities and recently spearheaded the Morehead Wheelchairs for Peace drive that donated 93 wheelchairs from the people of Morehead, KY to handicapped people in Yangshuo, Guangxi, China, Morehead’s sister city. She and her husband David have two sons who are engineers with national companies. Betty has enjoys traveling and has gone to Haiti, Honduras, India, and Taiwan on short-term mission trips with her church.

Phyllis Nickel

Vice President

Phyllis Nickel Phyllis is semi-retired working two days a week at Southern Ohio Medical Center in the Monitored Care Unit in Portsmouth, Ohio. She loves bedside patient care as it gives her the opportunity to anoint and pray for patients who desire that. She is an Oncology Certified Nurse and gives chemotherapy on the unit. She has been married for 45 years (in November 2008) to Arthur. They have two sons, two grandsons, and two granddaughters. 

Mr. David Cutts

Treasurer

David Cutts David is a retired physics teacher at Morehead State University. His passion is tennis, which he plays nearly daily.  He acquired his PhD from the University of Tennessee where he met his future wife Betty, who was then studying for a degree in Home Economics.  He grew up in Tabernacle, New Jersey where his family had a blueberry and cranberry farm.  David likes any kind of puzzles especially word puzzles.  He is an avid reader of science fiction.  He enjoys traveling also and has been to Europe, China, and the Middle East.

Michael Howard

Board Member

Michael Howard Michael has recently joined the Blessing Hands Board of Directors. He is an Instructor of Mathematics at Morehead State University and a pastor at Hillsboro United Methodist Church in Hillsboro, Kentucky. Michael received a BS in Mathematics and Computer Programming from Morehead State University and is currently pursuing an MBA in Economics and Corporate Finance. He is also pursuing an MA in Theology from Asbury Theological Seminary in Wilmore, Kentucky. In his spare time, Michael enjoys songwriting and playing the guitar, hiking, mountain climbing, traveling, teaching Bible study courses, and reading philosophy. Michael is married to Seung-yeon and resides in Morehead, Kentucky.