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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Rachel Weiderman: Variety of service placements

Christian Appalachian Project offers a large variety of volunteer opportunities for people who desire to serve in eastern Kentucky. Our programs include: housing, elderly housing, child development, GED education, respite, family advocacy, elderly and summer camps.
For some people, making the final decision on which of  the available programs they will serve is easy. To others, [...]

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Julia McStravog: Post-graduate volunteering

Some people are planners; they know in advance that service-driven work is something they were built for. They know deep down in their bones that God is calling them toward something that is greater than themselves. (Cue Bridget McCormack).
I am not one of those people. Perhaps it is part of my capricious nature that I [...]

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Amanda Breen: Short-term volunteering

As I prepared for graduation in my senior year of college, I knew that I needed more time to explore the world and to learn more about myself before jumping into a career or grad school. As much as I wanted to, I knew that I couldn’t commit a long period of time to volunteering, [...]

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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 [...]

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Judy Shue: Volunteering in retirement

Anticipation, nostalgia, anxiety and a bit of panic washed through my mind as I submitted my letter of retirement.  I had fourteen months to figure out what to do with the rest of my life.
I was truly at a transition point.   My children were settled in homes of their own.  My grandchildren were entering or [...]

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Shannon Alford: My discernment process

My decision to volunteer lasted about seven years. When I was a freshman in college I had set my sights towards getting a business degree and moving to New York, but in the back of my mind a much stronger desire was lingering, my call to serve. I was unsure how I was going to survive (financially, emotionally, physically) simple living. I knew I wanted it, but I wasn’t convinced it would be worth the risk in the long-run. Inevitably, I would be proving myself wrong.

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Debi Moore

By Margaret Gabriel
When Debi Moore arrived in Kentucky after applying to become a Christian Appalachian Project volunteer, she had many experiences behind her. Her work experiences and education combined to make her a fine volunteer candidate, but it was life experience that convinced her to follow up on investigating the mission work “that I said [...]

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Kim Rice

Volunteers make a vital contribution to the work of the Christian Appalachian Project, adding newness and a breath of fresh air to programs that have been present in CAP counties for many years. In 2007, a volunteer who came to eastern Kentucky to participate in CAP’s Appalachian WorkFest, a spring break alternative program, began to [...]

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Maggie Kane

The lore surrounding the early days of the Christian Appalachian Project tell us the first direct mail fund-raising effort was kick-started in the mid-1960s. Volunteers copied names from phone books in northeastern cities and sent letters asking for support for the fledgling program in eastern Kentucky. Maggie Kane firmly believes that story is true. In [...]

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