faith
A BOLD NEW VISION FOR APPALACHIA “Truly I tell you, if you have faith as small as a mustard seed, you can say to this mountain, ‘Move from here to there,’ and it will move. Nothing will be impossible for you.” – Matthew 17:20 NIV “Everything begins and ends with mission,” explains Guy Adams, President & CEO of Christian Appalachian Project (CAP). “Our organization, our leadership, our supporters – we know who we are, we know how we serve, and we know our core values. Over the course of the past two years, CAP’s Leadership Team, informed and inspired by our mission, has been casting a bold 30year vision for the future of our organization.” For more than 50 years, CAP has been committed to the mission of building hope, transforming lives, and sharing Christ’s love through service in Appalachia. This mission has been manifest in many different programs operating within many different communities in the region over the course of CAP’s history. CAP has been a living, breathing part of Appalachia, focusing its resources toward the areas of highest priority at any given time, moving to meet the needs of people wherever they are greatest. For families and individuals 6
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in need in Eastern Kentucky, CAP’s history has been intertwined with their own and its future most certainly will as well.
“We focus on reducing the effects of poverty at the human level.” “We make a difference – one individual, one family at a time. Our approach is a major boost toward empowerment for many families and individuals. These participants, particularly the individuals involved in our self-help and educational programming, end up feeling less isolated, less helpless, and less hopeless. We focus on reducing the effects of poverty at the human level,” Adams explains. It is with this approach in mind that he sought to establish some concrete, measurable goals for the future of CAP. Adams, alongside CAP’s Leadership Team, initiated the first steps toward a vision for the future five years ago with the adoption of a strategic plan. As goals and objectives from that plan were set and achieved,
