Week 3- Pink Awesome

Well on Friday morning we finished up our last week of WorkFest at Camp Caleb. Honestly I can’t believe WorkFest is over already. It seems like we were just getting ready for it and now its all over. But week 3 was a great end to WorkFest. The Pink team or now Pink Awesome had [...]

Nick Borninski: Affordability of volunteering

I heard the call from God to volunteer at Christian Appalachian Project in the summer of 2008.  My life was not one that was full of risk-taking or adventures; I had a great job that paid well and the economy was beginning to take a major downturn. Nevertheless, I was obedient to God and I [...]

Stars

“The sky was clear – remarkably clear – and the twinkling of all the stars seemed to be but throbs of one body, timed by a common pulse.” – Thomas Hardy, Far From the Madding Crowd This past week, I had the pleasure of working with nursing students from the University of Scranton. They stayed [...]

Team Awesome!!!!

Another great week of WorkFest was completed on Friday.  During our 2nd week at the Camp Caleb site we completed a lot of work on our participants’ home. We took out 6 windows and put in 6 new ones. We also ripped off almost all of her old siding and put up new sheeting and [...]

Camp Caleb love

As you may know, CAP has WorkFest at two sites, one in each our two regions. Because my office is in the Cumberland Valley Region, I’ve been spending most of my time at Camp AJ’s WorkFest, but Camp Caleb is just as awesome. This Wednesday I got to Camp Caleb for the first time this [...]

Cooks and crew leaders: the unsung heroes of WorkFest

When we talk about WorkFest at CAP, most people think of the more than 400 college students who come to Kentucky each March to repair substandard housing for low-income families. And they should–we created WorkFest 18 years ago to provide a spring break alternative for groups of college students to learn about Appalachia and change [...]

Pink Ladies-WorkFest Week 1

One word to describe WorkFest Week 1: Amazing. This past week was a roller coaster of emotions for me. Sunday night all the schools arrived and we got to meet the girls that would be working with us and at that point I was still excited and pumped for Monday morning. Then Monday rolled around and [...]

Family Appreciation

Each Thursday at both WorkFest sites, CAP holds a Family Appreciation night where we invite the participant families to join the students and CAP volunteers and staff for supper. Each crew gets the opportunity to share what they did that week on the jobsite, and participants may also speak if they’d like. Last night, one [...]

And the work goes on…

With seven schools at Camp AJ this week for WorkFest (up from five last week), we began three new crews: yellow, brown, and red, and other crews began new jobs this week. Today I visited four of the jobsites, and I was blown away by how different some of them look from last week. It’s really amazing how much [...]

Earl & Sarah

“How’re ya feelin’?” I asked as I approached the trailer. “Mostly with my fingers,” he replied with a grin that was barely noticeable on his mouth but that twinkled in his eyes. I met Earl and Sarah at the home of one of my participants last week. They aren’t a part of the CAP elderly [...]

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