Where we serve

Eastern Kentucky residents and CAP volunteers tend to identify much more with the county in which they reside than in a particular town or city. When Reverend Ralph Beiting founded Christian Appalachian Project, he and the volunteers who joined him served the counties that Beiting also served as a diocesan priest. As the years passed and Fr. Beiting’s diocesan assignments changed, he would expand CAP’s programs into the new counties he served. Today, Christian Appalachian Project is an interdenominational organization serving all 13 Appalachian states, but CAP volunteers still concentrate their efforts in our core eastern Kentucky service region indicated by the shaded counties below.

Volunteers in CAP’s Cumberland Valley Region serve McCreary, Jackson, Owsley and Rockcastle counties.  CAP’s Sandy Valley Region consists of Johnson, Martin, Floyd and Knott counties. In each of these counties 23-45% of the population live below the poverty line. The child poverty rate for these counties ranges from 32 to 57% (U.S. Census Bureau, Small Area Income and Poverty Estimates, 2009).