Why Appalachia?

There are more than 150 faith-based organizations that accept full-time volunteers. When one includes Peace Corps and AmeriCorps opportunities, the options where a volunteer could serve in the U.S. or abroad seem endless. So why would a person choose to volunteer in Appalachia?  It’s probably not the social scene, although our volunteers do find plenty [...]

Community

Community life is a huge aspect of volunteer life at CAP. For me, my housemates at the Floyd House have become a second family. And it really amazes me how well we all get along. We are all different ages and from different states and even faiths, yet we function as if we’ve known each [...]

Kentucky Travels

Well this last week I spent traveling around Kentucky and Tennessee. My family flew into Lexington on Sunday and I met up with them and we got to spend the whole week together seeing different things in Kentucky as well as spending a few days in Nashville, Tennessee. It was really great to spend time [...]

Family

This past week we finally gotback into our normal schedule, even though we had a shortened week because of Easter. So on Tuesday we headed out to Jane’s house (Pink Team’s WorkFest job) and we finished her deck. She was very thrilled to have new stairs and handrails up. She even sat on the deck [...]

Bye bye WorkFest, hello YouthFest

WorkFest 2010 was a huge success: more than 400 college students served on 20 different jobsites throughout March, repairing homes, meeting the people of Appalachia and having a life-changing experience. Repeated over and over again during student reflection time was that students didnot want WorkFest to be an isolated time in their lives, but the [...]

John 3:16

The week after WorkFest has been a catch up week for Housing. We spent most of Monday driving around to all our sites and collecting all the tools and then inventoried everything we had. So the rest of Monday and all of Tuesday was spent cleaning up and straightening out our tool trailer, which is [...]