Press Releases

LEXINGTON, Ky. — Tis’ the season to be generous. Staff at Happen Stock Toys in Lexington are helping to make sure that children in Central Appalachia have a Merry Christmas. The store donated toys to Christian Appalachian Project (CAP) to be distributed in Eastern Kentucky. 

MARTIN, Ky. — Parents and children filled the Louis T. Foley Mission Center to capacity at Christian Appalachian Project’s Christmas celebration to provide food, clothing, and gifts to children and families this holiday. Nicholas Jamerson, the lead vocalist for country duo, Sundy Best, performed duets with his brother Joseph to the delight of the crowd.

MOUNT VERNON, Ky. — Jessi Adams and Isabella Gormanson, both students in Child and Family Studies at Berea College, helped Santa distribute toys at Christian Appalachian Project’s Grateful Threadz annual Santa Day. Adams and Gormanson collected 500 toys in honor of their friend BriAnna Cowden, age 22, who passed away in early November after being involved in a head-on collision with a drunk driver.

BEREA, Ky. — Christian Appalachian Project (CAP) honored Feed the Children as a Champion of Appalachia at its third annual award celebration. Feed the Children has made a significant impact on Central Appalachia and has come alongside CAP for more than 25 years to help people in need in the region.

MOUNT VERNON, Ky. — Rockcastle County Schools showed up in a big way to support the 6th Annual Hunger Walk, sponsored by Christian Appalachian Project’s Grateful Bread Food Pantry. More than 725 students participated in this year’s walk, which seeks to bring awareness to hunger-related issues in Appalachia.

WHEELING, W.Va. — Virginia Cage was married in 1950, the same year she and her husband started building their home in Wheeling. Cage and her husband moved into their new home in 1953, but now she hopes she will be able to restore the home where she raised her two sons after the basement was flooded by backwater last week

MOUNT VERNON, Ky. — Flash flooding in northern West Virginia has left hundreds of families in desperate need. Christian Appalachian Project (CAP) has mobilized a team to assist with initial assessments and cleanup.

“Currently, more than 80 homes have been assessed and are awaiting cleanup, and there are an additional 300 homes in desperate need in neighboring counties,” said Robyn Renner, CAP’s director of Disaster Relief.

MOUNT VERNON, Ky. — Grace and Waveney Brooks are at once exceptional and ordinary. Both students at Tates Creek High School in Lexington, they have journeyed to Guatemala with their family to translate at a medical clinic in a small village and recently joined over 80 youth from local Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints (LDS) congregations to partner with Christian Appalachian Project (CAP) in Rockcastle County. The service project provided an opportunity for them to make a difference at home.

GEORGETOWN, Ky. — Christian Appalachian Project (CAP) is pleased to announce it has received a $7,500 grant from Toyota Motor Manufacturing, Kentucky (TMMK) Contributions Program. The grant will provide scholarships to fund one week of residential summer camp for 15 school-age children in Eastern Kentucky. During the week, campers learn leadership skills and enjoy a variety of recreational opportunities such as swimming, hiking, and fishing.  

PAINTSVILLE, Ky. — Many challenges face local Appalachian communities including economic and educational uncertainty leading to stress, anxiety, and sometimes depression at higher rates than the rest of the country. Counselors with Christian Appalachian Project’s (CAP) Family Life Counseling Program work daily to provide mental health service to those in the greatest of need.