Westborough ASP  

(Appalachia Service Project)

Westborough ASP is a community-based group that serves through the national organization called Appalachia Service Project. Westborough ASP is sponsored by St. Luke The Evangelist Parish and The First United Methodist Church (FUMC). We travel to Central Appalachia each summer with from 10 to 20 crews, each consisting of 2 adults and 5 youth aged 14+ to serve this life-changing home repair ministry. 

ASP Mission

The Appalachia Service Project (ASP) is an ecumenical Christian ministry, open to all people, that inspires hope and service through volunteer home repair for low-income families in Central Appalachia.  ASP’s goal is to make homes “warmer, safer, and drier” for struggling families in rural Central Appalachia. 

ASP Vision

Appalachia Service Project envisions the eradication of substandard housing in Central Appalachia and the transformation of everyone who comes in contact with this ministry. 

Repairing Homes, Transforming Lives

ASP is more than just a building program. ASP helps Appalachia's (and America’s) poorest families but the families can help change your life, too. ASP also provides a unique framework that fosters transformational experiences for volunteers, families served, and staff — by building relationships with each other that break down cultural, social and economic barriers. When you change the lives of others, they have a way of changing you.  The ASP philosophy of service has remained the same since its founding: ASP encourages people to act responsibly in the face of human need and injustice.  By transforming faith into ASP service, volunteers respond to a basic specific need: housing. By putting aside their own needs and desires, ASP volunteers free themselves to share talent, love, and concern with the people of Appalachia and with one another. More important than construction know-how is a willingness to enter the communities and homes of Central Appalachia with sensitivity, concern, and love — accepting people right where they are and just the way they are.

We have an Informational Meeting in the fall, where youth can come learn more about who we are and what we do. Watch for dates in St. Luke's bulletins, Flocknotes, and on our Facebook page.

For more information about Westborough ASP, click HERE.

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