The CAP Volunteer Program is now accepting applications for summer camp volunteers. Counselors, lifeguards, arts and crafts instructors, and medical personnel are needed to staff CAP's two overnight recreational summer camps in Eastern Kentucky. Request an information packet today!
“Never doubt that a small group of thoughtful people can change the world...indeed it is the only thing that ever has.”- Margaret Mead
When Father Ralph Beiting, the founder of CAP, first came to Kentucky in 1950, he found a place of great beauty and character, but also a place where there was great suffering. He sent out a call to friends and family to help him provide food, shelter, clothing and support to the people who were coming to him daily to ask for help. Those were CAP's first volunteers, and through the years more than 40,000 volunteers have answered a similar call to serve. Today, CAP relies on the generous service of long-term, short-term, group and summer camp volunteers. For more information about volunteering at CAP, click here or call our office at 1-800-755-5322!
The Christian Appalachian Project’s mission is to have a Complete Impact on the familes we serve through education, economic opportunity, employment, and a sense of Christian community. WIth help of volunteers, CAP provides Hands-On Change. For Good.
The CAP Volunteer Program includes an emphasis on:
Here are some commonly asked questions and answers about the CAP Volunteer Program, including questions about benefits for volunteers.
See what it takes to become a CAP Volunteer by reviewing these requirements.
Right now we have some immediate openings that might be just what you’re looking for.
If you would like more information on how to become a volunteer with the Christian Appalachian Project, just click Volunteer Information Packet Request.
A visitor to one of CAP’s Volunteer Houses wrote to us saying, “It is a collection of American’s best and brightest caught in a moment of pure generosity.”We think so too.
“We are not human beings having a spiritual experience, we are spiritual beings having a human experience” - Teilhard de Chardin
There has to be a reason they return to the Appalachian area 2 times every year to strap on tool belts and stand over a sink full of dirty dishes. If you were to ask Sandra and Jay Dresser why they choose working their vacations instead of relaxing as most do they would answer with a huge smile of satisfaction.
“I have shown you all things, how that your laboring ought to support the weak, and to remember the words of our Lord Jesus, how he said, It is more blessed to give than to receive.”
The Christian Appalachian Project is an interdenominational, non-profit Christian organization committed to serving people in need in Appalachia by providing physical, spiritual and emotional support through a wide variety of programs and services.
“Never doubt that a small group of thoughtful people can change the world...
