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Record number of volunteers for Appalachia Service Project
Record number of volunteers for Appalachia Service ProjectBy The Ridgefield Press
Ridgefield, CT
July 12, 2014
A record 165 high school students and adults from the Ridgefield area went on their annual Appalachia Service Project mission trip last week, working to make homes warmer, safer and drier in three counties in Virginia.
The local ASP group, now in its 31st year, departed in 23 rented vans early Saturday morning, June 28, after a commissioning ceremony with family and friends at Jesse Lee Memorial United Methodist Church, the group’s home base...
...Appalachia Service Project is a national Christian volunteer organization whose participants make an annual weeklong mission trip where they work to make local folks’ homes warmer, safer and drier. Since its founding in 1969, more than 300,000 volunteers from across the nation have repaired 15,000 homes in central Appalachia.
ASP is open to anyone age 15 and up....
MORE at http://www.theridgefieldpress.com/32767/record-number-of-volunteers-for-appalachia-service-project/