There’s still time to sign up for Jesse Lee Appalachia Service Project’s 2015 mission trip – but the first required orientation sessions are occurring soon.
All ASP volunteers are required to attend four orientation sessions – the first of which will be held on Tuesday, April 7, and repeated Thursday, April 9. Both will be from 6:30 to 9 p.m. in the lower level of the main sanctuary building of Jesse Lee Memorial United Methodist Church, 207 Main Street.
ASP is a national Christian volunteer organization that sends volunteers on weeklong mission trips to make homes “warmer, safer and drier” in West Virginia, Kentucky, Tennessee, Virginia and North Carolina. Since ASP’s founding in 1969, more than 300,000 volunteers from across the nation have worked on some 15,000 homes.
Jesse Lee ASP will make its 32nd annual mission trip July 4-12.
It’s open to adults and to teens who will have completed their freshman year of high school. Especially needed this year are additional adults – both those who have teens coming along and those who don’t.
You don’t have to be a member of Jesse Lee or any church, you don’t have to live in Ridgefield, and you don’t need to be an expert with a hammer to volunteer. Basic construction skills and safety rules are taught prior to going on ASP.
For more information go to jesseleeasp.org or call Linda Shackelford at 914-763-8165.