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Our Sunday School ASP mission trip this past July was a complete success! To thank the parish for your support, we invite all to a free pasta luncheon after liturgy on Oct
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Your financial contributions, prayers and other support paid off in a wonderful trip that blessed us the servers as much as those that we served. Our
presentation will give you a chance to see firsthand what our trip was like. Please
invite anyone who may be interested in joining us next year (July 7th – 15th, 2012). Read
about what the participants had to say about their experience below:
CLICK HERE to download the newsletter you see below
Some information about the ASP: Appalachia Service Project (ASP) provides
one of the most rewarding structured service opportunities in the nation -- bringing thousands of volunteers from around
the country to rural Central Appalachia to repair homes for low-income families. But ASP is more than just a building program.
Yes, Appalachia's poorest families urgently need your help, but they can help change your life, too. Because when you change
the lives of others, they have a way of changing you. After a few days of hard work repairing
homes with ASP, your hands will grow a little tougher, your arms a little stronger, and your relationship with God a whole
lot deeper. You'll return home to your community with a passion for service, a renewed compassion for other people, and a
fresh appreciation for your place and purpose in this world. Best of all, you'll discover first-hand that regardless of
geography, education, or economic class, we are all equal members of the family of God. We
like to say that our goal is to make homes "warmer, safer and drier" for needy families. And for more than 40
years, we've done exactly that for thousands of families. Yet for all that, we are only able to serve one in ten families
who apply to us for help. We need many, many more volunteers to make a lasting dent in Appalachian poverty.
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