The Christian Appalachian Project (CAP) is an

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, based in

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, US. Their mission is "building hope, transforming lives, and sharing

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's love through service in

Appalachia Appalachia () is a cultural region in the Eastern United States that stretches from the Southern Tier of New York State to northern Alabama and Georgia. While the Appalachian Mountains stretch from Belle Isle in Newfoundland and Labrador, ...

". CAP was established in 1964 by

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Ralph W. Beiting Monsignor Ralph W. Beiting (January 1, 1924 - August 9, 2012) was a Roman Catholic priest and the founder of the Christian Appalachian Project in the US. Career Beiting was born in 1924 in Northern Kentucky. He was the oldest of eleven children and ...

. The headquarters are located in

Paintsville, Kentucky Paintsville () is a home rule-class city along Paint Creek in Johnson County, Kentucky, in the United States. It is the seat of its county. The population was 3,459 during the 2010 U.S. Census. History A Paint Lick Station was referred to in m ...

Serving Programs

As the 12th-largest human services charity in the

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, CAP served 17,250 people across 13 states in 2021. CAP receives donations from

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s and individuals and uses the goods to offset costs of its human services missions, to give to other charities and to give to victims of natural disasters. In 2021, CAP received $135m in donations, with an expenditure of £137m. CAP’s largest mission is Operation Sharing. This mission has given away over $100 million gift-in-kind donations to more than 1,400 partner agencies and churches in all thirteen Appalachian states in 2010. One of the components of Operation Sharing is Operation Relief. This has been used to give millions of dollars' worth of emergency supplies to those devastated by tornadoes, floods, hurricanes, and other natural disasters. This service also supplies teams of relief workers who assist victims with physical labor involved in recovering from

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s. CAP offers after-school programs, summer camps, and educational support services for children of all ages.Christian Educator Academy website
/ref> Students are sent out to the areas of greatest poverty in the region to rebuild and repair homes for families and individuals struggling with substandard housing.

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External links

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Christian Appalachian Oral History Project
at the Louie B. Nunn Center for Oral History * {{Authority control Society of Appalachia Religious charities based in the United States Charities based in Kentucky Social welfare charities based in the United States Paintsville, Kentucky