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Faith healing at a church service in Micco, West Virginia in 1979. The young boy appears to have a drooped arm. Faith healing is the practice of prayer and gestures (such as laying on of hands) that are believed to elicit divine intervention in spiritual and physical healing, Micco is an unincorporated village named for the Main Island Creek Coal Company. Micco is part of surrounding Switzer, a census-designated place, with a 2021 population of 600 and an average per capita income of $18,000. Jon Chase photo.
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Faith healing at a church service in Micco, West Virginia in 1979. The young boy appears to have a drooped arm. Faith healing is the practice of prayer and gestures (such as laying on of hands) that are believed to elicit divine intervention in spiritual and physical healing, Micco is an unincorporated village named for the Main Island Creek Coal Company. Micco is part of surrounding Switzer, a census-designated place, with a 2021 population of 600 and an average per capita income of $18,000. Jon Chase photo.