Sarah S: Where God wants me

“People are like stained-glass windows. They sparkle and shine when the sun is out, but when the darkness sets in, their true beauty is revealed only if there is a light from within” (Elisabeth Kübler-Ross). There were a myriad of factors that led to my coming to Christian Appalachian Project. Just like a stained-glass window [...]

Erin Cusick: Orientation and (only) a year to go

I spent the last week at CAP orientation. It seems a little weird to “get oriented” after being here for three weeks, but they wait until they have a decent size group to go through the orientation. It was held up at camp, which was both a good thing and a bad thing. It was [...]

Jane Walters: Unexpected lessons

About a month ago, I was running through the woods of Jenny Wiley State Park, enjoying the scenery while watching out for snakes on the path and batting spider webs and gnats out of my face every few steps. At the same time, I was distractedly mulling over whatever thoughts came into my head, and I [...]

Chris Ward: Community Development

I came to the realization a few days ago that I have been with CAP just shy of six months. The time span of six months to me has always signified the end to an incubation period of sorts. After six months somewhere you’ve generally developed a daily routine, learned the ins and outs of [...]

Janean Shedd: WorkFest

WorkFest (our alternative spring break program for college students) has come and gone, and it was everything, and so much more, that I thought it would be. It all started with my housemates and I moving out of McCreary House and into a dorm area at Camp Andrew Jackson. Camp is beautiful, but I was [...]

Anita Rayner: Cooking in service of the Lord

By Beth Dotson Brown One day while in the CAP office where she had been assigned to serve, volunteer Anita Rayner heard someone say she was short a cook to prepare food for a volunteer group.  Anita volunteered to fill in. Little did she know that her offer to help would grow into a long-term [...]

Stacie West: Life After CAP

I think it emblematic of my time at CAP that I write this reflection of my life after CAP hours after having dinner with one of my housemates who lives about an hour away. After 6-1/2 years, we can still pick up like we just came in from work days in the hills and hollers [...]

Seth Willard: Devotions

Devos. Every CAP volunteer knows them well. Those short little segments following dinner during which someone, often the cook of the meal still being digested, shares a bit of wisdom which they prepared days in advance. Well, maybe. I know for a fact some people put a lot of thought into their devos, but then [...]

Jennifer Zupicich: Community

When applying to serve with CAP, you not only agree to serve as a volunteer but as a community member in the house in which you are placed. I have lived at the Johnson Volunteer House for a little over a year now and plan to stay until June. Needless to say, not everyone stays [...]

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 [...]

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