Community
Christian Appalachian Project’s Volunteer Program has three guiding principles, or pillars, that reflect what volunteering for CAP is all about: Service, Spirituality and Community. We use the three-legged table metaphor to illustrate the importance of each pillar—all are essential to keeping volunteer life balanced. Because CAP is a Christian volunteer organization, the service and spirituality [...]
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
August 16, 2010 by admin
Filed under Featured volunteers
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 [...]
Volunteer Commissioning
[ July 9, 2010; 4:00 pm to 5:00 pm. 4:00 pm to 5:00 pm. 4:00 pm to 5:00 pm. 4:00 pm to 5:00 pm. ] July 9, 2010
Salyersville, Kentucky
4 p.m.
CAP will formally welcome 18 new volunteers in a commissioning service that reflects on our core values of Service, Community and Spirituality.
Julia McStravog: Post-graduate volunteering
June 24, 2010 by admin
Filed under Featured volunteers
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 [...]
Nick Borninski: Affordability of volunteering
March 23, 2010 by admin
Filed under Featured volunteers
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 [...]
How can I afford to volunteer?
It’s a question we hear alot at the CAP Volunteer Program, and it’s a fair one. Volunteering for a year–or even for a few weeks–is a significant sacrifice for many people. But a lot of confusion exists around what it means exactly to “work for free.” Although many people may write off full-time volunteerism as [...]
Christian Community draws 13 new volunteers to CAP and Appalachia
Our new volunteers (not pictured: Nancy Tabor)
On Thursday, February 11, 2010, Christian Appalachian Project (CAP) Volunteer Program officially welcomed 13 new long-term volunteers at its winter Commissioning Service. Although some have been serving since October, many are just beginning their CAP journey.
One of those new arrivals is Ed Riehl, 64, from New York City. Ed is [...]
Volunteer Commissioning Service
[ February 11, 2010; 4:00 pm to 5:00 pm. ] We welcome 13 new long-term volunteers as they begin their service with CAP.
God doesn’t call the qualified, he qualifies the called.
By Kate Stefanowicz
This past week in housing was a pretty typical week for me. We continued working on siding the house and we’ve almost completed the whole house except for a few little areas. We also got to work in the rain this week, which is always a good time especially when you get to [...]
