Volunteer Prayers

Please join us in praying these volunteer prayers throughout the year

Each orientation, we invite our new volunteers to write a prayer for their time with CAP. We invite you to pray with them.

Eternal Father, We request your continued blessings on us, your humble servants. Please make us wise so that we may discern your will. Please make us strong so that we may work hard in support of CAP. Watch over our families, friends, and everyone who prays for our success. Keep their bodies healthy and their minds at peace. Also bless the CAP participants. Give them hope and empower them to improve their lives so they might worship and serve you who are all holy. We ask all of these things in the name of your son and our Lord: Jesus Christ. Amen.

Dear Lord, After learning lessons from your words and parables all my life, I thank you for leading me to this service opportunity with CAP to act out my responsibility as a Christian. I pray that the food I will be helping to distribute will allow the people we serve to grow strong in body, mind, and witness to Christ. Please keep all the volunteers, CAP staff and alumni, safe and healthy this year. Grant us your peace and strength to carry on with our daily responsibilities. Amen Dear God, I pray to you in hopes you watch over everyone and take care of them as you take care of me. Watch over all the people who volunteer their lives to CAP and all the places they work at. Thank you for everything you’ve done for me and the world we live in.

Dear God, I pray that you lift up those who are struggling, and let them know they can find a home in CAP. I pray that you bless the volunteers, employees, and participants, as we continue into another year of serving you and Appalachia. I pray that I can find comfort and growth here, and that this year helps me find my way in life. Thank you for all the amazing people you have given me and continue to give me. Amen.

Dear Lord, Whose almighty and ever-loving will brought us to your heart: Bless this cohort that we may execute your mission well. Some of us may be nervous or anxious, I know I am, calm these nerves, I humbly pray. Help us to draw all those we meet and serve

closer to You and help us to see You in all those we meet and serve. Bless the staff, that they may guide this cohort toward a successful mission, closer to each other, and closer to Your heart. I pray that this year is fruitful and fulfilling. I ask You to allow Your Mother to pour out her motherly love us as we go throughout this year and beyond as we pray: Hail Mary, full of Grace the Lord is with thee, blessed are you among women and blessed is the fruit of thy womb, Jesus. Holy Mary, Mother of God, pray for us sinners, now and at the hour of our death: St. Joseph the Worker...Pray for us St. Michael the Archangel...Defend us in Battle St. Dymphna, patron of the anxious...Pray for Us.

Lord, Help us this year to truly abandon everything to You so that we will be able to give to our fullest ability. May we bring Your love to all those we encounter and see You in them. May we be receptive to whatever You want to teach us, and grow in great love of You. We thank you so deeply for this opportunity, and we do all our work for Your glory. Amen.

Father God, I thank you for the trials and tribulations this next year holds. As I begin another chapter of my life, I ask that you continue to guide me on the path you have set out for me. Father, I give all the things that weigh on my mind and heart… every moment of sadness, anxiety, and fear to you because I know that you will never give me more than I can handle. I ask you to watch over my fellow CAP members, alumni, and staff as we continue to serve you during the ever-changing moments of our everyday lives. Please watch over friends and loved ones as they are continuing on their own paths. Watch over the members of our nation’s military and their families as they navigate their own difficulties. Thank you for the lessons, for the new friendships and opportunities this next year will open for each of us. Thank you for allowing us to learn from each other. Most of all, thank you for giving all of us an opportunity to not just talk about change but to be change. In Jesus’ precious holy name, Amen.

O Lord, Help us so that we can do the most with our actions here to brighten our lives and the lives of those we help.

For the sake of his sorrowful passion have mercy on us and the whole world. Amen

Almighty God, My loving Father in Heaven, Sovereign Ruler and Creator of the Heavens and the Earth, I thank you for all your many blessings, and most of all for my salvation and your indwelling presences of your Holy Spirit. Thank you for not giving up on me and bringing me to such a time and place as this. Help me be the man you want me to be. Thank you for this opportunity.

I wish to learn about the community and be accepted for my good and bad.

VOLUNTEER LIFE

Volunteers gather to retreat, recommit, and recalibrate

There are very few places on earth that are as beautiful as Appalachia on a fall day.

Volunteers from all across CAP’s programs recently gathered at one of Kentucky’s State Parks to prayerfully consider their time of service.

Many activities were planned including envisioning community through prayer station journals, discussing house covenants, planting bulbs that will bloom in the spring, sharing a meal, and hiking to the top of Natural Bridge. Unexpected joy was found in the leaves that had fallen nearby.

Moments like this bring the members of our volunteer community closer together and allow them to take the time to consider the importance of their service.

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ALUMNI RESOURCES

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