Pleasantville Appalachia Service Project
 

2010 is the 12th year of our involvement
with the Appalachia Service Project!

Click Here to download the 2010 ASP Mission Trip Application Form

Each summer we send youth and adult volunteers to Central Appalachia for a week-long home-repair ministry with the Appalachia Service Project, Inc., a Tennessee-based non-profit organization. In 2009, thirty-six Pleasantville ASP volunteers prepared for the mission trip by doing several local community service projects. During the summer we traveled to Whitesville, West Virginia, where we spent a week repairing and rebuilding five homes as volunteers for ASP, Inc.

The Presbyterian Church oversees and organizes the Pleasantville ASP mission and welcomes volunteers from across the community. Most of our volunteers are high-school aged. Youth volunteers must be at least 15 years old and must have finished ninth grade to be eligible to participate.

The ASP mission is much more than just a "trip." We do local community service, skill-building, team-building, sensitivity training and fundraising during the school year. The summer mission trip and the activities leading up to it are opportunities for personal growth as well as spiritual growth.

Last spring, our volunteers prepared for the mission trip by:

• Developing construction skills at the Presbyterian Church by demolishing an out-dated office and starting its reconstruction, under the oversight of a professional builder;
• Running the Pleasantville Day Community Pancake Breakfast fundraiser on May 16; and
• Raising additional funds to finance the mission trip.

It costs about $700 to send each volunteer to Appalachia. A big part of that cost goes to ASP, Inc., which purchases the building materials we use to repair people's homes.  We’re grateful to our supporters and “shareholders” who make this mission possible!

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Appalachia Service Project, Inc. ("ASP") is a 501(c)(3) not-for-profit organization based in Johnson City, Tennessee. ASP relies on volunteers to help repair and rebuild homes for low-income families living in Central Appalachia.

"Appalachia Service Project", "ASP", and the ASP logo are exclusively owned by the Appalachia Service Project, Inc. and are used with permission.