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A TRADITION OF SERVICE
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fter a nine-hour drive from Maryland, a team of skilled men from New Life Foursquare Church step into the mountains of Eastern Kentucky ready for their annual work in CAP’s Elderly Housing Program. For these men, the long drive is worth it.
expand missions’ opportunities to help people close to home too.” Hendershot and his wife had been long-time financial supporters of CAP. Rick Bussard and Lee Lambert, also from New Life, joined Hendershot on a visit to CAP programs to determine if it would be a good fit. “When we left, we had the feeling that we could do this – that we need to do this!”
“I feel obligated to do things right here in this country,” acknowledges Rohn LeGore, the coordinator of this year’s mission trip. “I love serving with CAP because Men from New Life have “Many folks from our they back up what they say. worked with the Housing congregation had served in and Elderly Services Programs When you arrive, they are ready for you to help those international missions, but we on projects ranging from that have the greatest need. wanted to expand missions’ replacing rotting flooring and When you’re here, you learn cracked foundations opportunities to help people repairing a lot about poverty, but also to painting and building decks close to home too.” about resilience,” he said. and constructing handicap“Participants have some skin in accessible ramps. the game. It’s not just a hand out. They tend to get in and work right alongside you. Lambert, who passed away in 2014, was so passionate It’s great to be a part of giving hope.” about serving others that his son, Matthew, continues to extend the compassion his father began. Pastor Dave Hendershot initiated the relationship with CAP in 2009. “Many folks from our congregation “My first trip to CAP was in 2009, after I graduated had served in international missions, but we wanted to from high school, but I saw it as a continuation of what FALL / WINTER 2016 | christianapp.org/MtSpiritGive
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