CAP’s Grateful Bread Food Pantry hosted its third annual Hunger Awareness March on September 4th in downtown Mt. Vernon, KY. This year, 183 caring individuals volunteered to “stand up to hunger” and 417 pounds of food were donated to the pantry! The...

September has been a very exciting month for the Christian Appalachian Project (CAP), as it marked the beginning of our 50th anniversary celebrations. To celebrate 50 years in the mountains, CAP hosted a concert at the Eastern Kentucky University...

Kathy O’Donnell Kluesener has served at the Christian Appalachian Project longer than any other person in CAP’s history. For 40 years, Kathy has dedicated herself to our volunteer program. Arriving as a short-term volunteer for the housing and...

Last month, Christian Appalachian Project commissioned 23 long-term volunteers who have made a commitment of one year to Service, Community, and Spirituality in Eastern Kentucky. These new volunteers come from 17 different states and will address...

Orientation is over. We are all at our assigned roles, and the new volunteer year is in full swing. It should be business as usual, but the rains have arrived, and not stopped. In Elderly Housing, the jobs have proceeded, but there had to be a day...