Staying for a second year

The last two weeks I have spent at home with my family in CT. About three months ago I requested and was granted another term of service with CAP, and we get two weeks off in between our first and second years. I can’t tell you the amount of joy and love I’ve experienced in eastern [...]

Carl Ford: Disaster Relief

At 62, I was floating along nicely making plans for our future retirement and deciding where we were going to live and what wonderful sights we were going to visit.  Then God intervened and said to my wife “come home.”  Here I was, a professing Christian, left with a hole the size of the Grand [...]

Remembering Steve Laudenslager

Steve Laudenslager, a former CAP volunteer and employee, passed away in July after a sudden illness. He was 45. Steve first came to CAP and the Jackson House as a long-term volunteer in 1998, serving in Housing and then later as a volunteer host for groups. He eventually became employed at CAP as a Volunteer [...]

Disaster Relief

“I’ve never seen anything like this.” This was probably the most used sentence over the past two weeks in Pike County. The amount of damage that this flood did was unbelievable. I’ve never responded to a flood clean up before and this certainly was an eye opening experience. Many homes were just washed away, trailers [...]