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Email Kevin, the webmaster

Email Jonathan, ASP Adult Leader and Volunteer

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Welcome to The First United Methodist Church's ASP page.

Click Here to see the complete list of all of the items in the auction and to see the high bids from last week.

Appalachian Service Project (ASP)
Silent Auction and Pot Luck Dinner
Sunday, June 1 Webb Hall, First United Methodist Church

6:30 pm Auction and Dinner
7:30 pm Tables close and final bidding

First UMC and St. Luke's are sponsoring 70 volunteers with ASP, traveling to Buchanan County, VA from July 12-20.  Proceeds from the auction go to pay for building materials, food, lodging, and travel expenses during our week of service.

Other bidding/viewing times at Webb Hall:
Sunday, June 1, from 9 - 12 noon. 
Come early and scout the merchandise

 

Golf Outings
Red Sox tickets
Bruce Springsteen tickets
2 1 born to run
Gourmet Dinners
iPods
3 45 Apple 1GB iPod Shuffle - Blue
The Sole Proprietor
Vacation Get-Aways on Cape Cod
 

over 80 additional items
support your ASP volunteer

Bring your whole family and bring along another family!

What to bring to the potluck?
Per Family Alphabetical Format:

A-I Please bring a salad
J-R Please bring a main dish
S-Z Please bring a dessert

Great Food, Great Fun
Great Fellowship

 

The Appalachia Service Project (ASP) is a home building/repair project founded in 1969 by “Tex” Evans who matched energetic high schoolers and their adult leaders with families below the poverty line in West Virginia, Kentucky, and Tennessee in need of home repair.

ASP first started over 35 years ago with only 50 volunteers who worked on 4 homes. Since then over 200,000 people from all over the US have worked in Appalachia to repair existing homes and build new ones. It is anticipated that this summer alone, over 14,000 volunteers will spend a week working for low-income families in rural Appalachia.

ASP is a non-profit organization supported by donations and the fees it charges to the volunteers who come to Appalachia each year.


Each year, the church sends two groups of volunteers to Appalachia. One group is the Youth team and the other is the Adult team. The 2006 Youth Mission Team was comprised of 53 youth and adult leader volunteers. The team travelled in July to Harlan County, Kentucky.




Full picture of the Youth Mission Team of 2006
Click above for more 2006 youth trip pictures



Volunteers in Action

This is a picture of two members of a work crew from ASP 04. They are mid-project, the third week on a multi-week project of building a carport roof over a trailer. This is very important for the family since their roof leaks every time it rains. This crew spent the week putting up joists and rafters.


This is a shot of everyone collecting hardware before a workday. Each morning, the ASP staff drives to the hardware store to pick up the supplies for the day. The volunteers collect their hardware and head off for the day.






A crew hard at work. This crew built a much-needed addition onto a trailer for their family.