The Christian Appalachian Project is pleased to welcome AmeriCorps members to serve with us for the the 2013-2014 service year. AmeriCorps is a national service program that engages Americans of all ages and backgrounds in service to address the...

When I first came to CAP I expected to spend a year volunteering and figuring out my “next step.” I thought that when I left I would be leaving for somewhere – I would have a clear plan of what I wanted to do next. Then I got toward the end of my...

Lesson One Poverty is not pretty. It’s not a glossy brochure where some pretty girls and boys from (what’s that place, again?) smile toothy grins or look up shyly with saucers for eyes. It’s not some noble pursuit, filmed to win an Oscar, revealing...

This issue also available as a PDF. Children of CAP alumni follow in their footsteps Nathaniel Fouch, Kerry LeBrun and Sarah LeBrun, three children of CAP alums, served this summer at Camp AJ. Nathaniel Fouch has no doubt about that. His parents...

I have been tamed. Really, over the past months, these wild, delightful children have been taming me. Slowly but surely we moved closer to the middle, until we were side by side, laughing and hugging freely. But I have been tamed in a way I didn’t...