THANK YOU to everyone who gave to the $40K match to help us RAMP UP for this summer! We met the match!

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Spring 2013

Dear ASP Friends,

I wanted to write you this letter so you can fully understand what a difference you

make in people’s lives. I want to tell you what my life was like before and after you came

into my home.

I asked a couple other organizations to help, but when they came out — they left and

never came back. So when Ben came to my home on a Thursday and left, I thought I had

seen the last of him and ASP.

To my surprise, Ben came back on Saturday and told us ASP was going to do all

they could to help us. I was so glad to be wrong! This was the beginning of my ASP

DIFFERENCE.

Thank you so very much — not only for the work and material, but also for the

friends I now have. Everyone at ASP has a special place in my heart. I laughed so hard this

past summer, my jaws hurt! So here is the difference you made:

Special $25,000 matching gift if we can raise $50,000 by 6/15

for summer needs now!This is a great opportunity to leverage your gift and

help more struggling families this summer… 2013 Theme

Mark 10:43-45

Whoever wants to become great among you must be your servant, and whoever wants to be first must be slave of all. For even the Son of Man did not come to be served, but to serve, and to give his life as a ransom for many. (NIV)

This year’s theme about a “radical reversal” means that as ASP volunteers, we are committing to follow God’s plan rather than our own … that we will put others first instead of trying to be first ourselves … and that we’ll go toward the messes and hurts of life rather than away from them. It’s a radical reversal of what is “normal” for the rest of the world.

ASP Board Member and minister Brian Erickson (himself a former ASP summer staffer) has given us all some great food for thought about “Radical Reversal” in the devotions that will be available to all ASP volunteers this summer or you can download them from our website at:

www.ASPHome.org.

As you read through this newsletter and the stories, we hope you will be reminded that ASP is about so much more than lumber, nails, roofing and home repair. It’s more than just helping the poor too. Like so many volunteers have found (and will find, this summer) — it’s about radically reversing our priorities in order to radically reverse the lives of others for God’s Kingdom.

Thank you for joining with us in this amazing ministry — and being part of the RADICAL REVERSAL in Appalachia this summer!

warmer. safer. drier.™

This is the Chambers family with ASP Center Director Ben Litke and staffer Caitlin Szabo. Curtis, who has no mobility at all in his legs and limited mobility with his hands, is in the rocking chair. He must be carried in and out of bed and gets around only with his wheelchair.

This is the note we received from Wanda a few weeks ago!

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"None of us can do everything — but each of us can do SOMETHING. And if we each do something, we can change the world.”

— Martin Luther King, Jr.

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Thank Youfor investing to help those in desperate need in Central appalachia!

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ASP’s Cup of Cold Water fund covers emergency plumbing, septic and electrical projects. We anticipate needing another $65,000 in order to fully fund every 2013 project request.

Will you help?

The two sisters who live here built this house themselves 17 years ago — using nothing but a chainsaw and materials they salvaged!

The beautiful land they are on has been in their family for over 100 years but it is very remote. They do not have water here and so they have to purchase all their drinking water or find it in a spring. They also still use an outhouse! While they have done some repairs through the years as they could, now one of them is disabled. We’ll be working on their home this summer and God willing, we’ll have

the funds available to put in a septic tank and bathroom.

Will you help us provide running water to these sisters for the first time ever?

YOU HELP ASP VOLUNTEER WIN TOP PRIZE Dylan Johnson, an aSP volunteer and the son of Monty and Cheryl (also aSP volunteers) won one of the top three $5,000 prizes with his project idea, “Tools for a Stronger Tomorrow.”

Dylan raised money and collected donations of new and used power tools and manual tools for aSP in order “to aid with strengthening communities and dilapidated homes in the impoverished appalachian region.”

We sent out a mailing about this need last fall and thanks to your support, Dylan not only collected more than 50 tools and $4,000 himself, but you helped provide over $12,000 toward the need of new tools for the upcoming year.

WAY TO WORK TOGETHER, ASP DONORS & VOLUNTEERS — we deeply appreciate you!

ASP is thrilled to announce The LaRock Family Fund, which has been established to provide for increasing capacities of service for families served by ASP in West Virginia.

For the LaRocks, ASP has truly been a family mission. It all started in 1981 when Ruth helped lead a group of volunteers from Haygood United Methodist Church on their first ASP Mission trip. She was soon followed by her sons Jim and Mike, and then by Mike’s wife Lisa. In 1990, Ruth’s husband Frank made his first trip and loved it so much that he went every year without fail for the next 20 years. In the mid 1990’s, the first of Frank and Ruth’s grandchildren started going to ASP and that continued until all of them have now volunteered for several summers themselves.

Over the years, it wasn’t unusual for five or six LaRocks to volunteer together the same summer. Ruth has planned, organized, fundraised and traveled with close to 1,000 volunteers, and along the way, the LaRock family has helped many other churches start their own ASP mission trips.

Being involved with ASP didn’t just mean devoting a week every summer to the mission. Ruth was also one of the founding members of ASP’s National Advisory Council (NAC) and was soon joined by Frank and Mike. She cut the ribbon when ASP’s year-round center in Guyan Valley, West Virginia was dedicated. And her son, Mike, later became ASP’s first second-generation Board Member.

For Ruth, going on ASP mission trips has always meant going back home. She was raised in a small West Virginia town in the mountains of Appalachia. This was her way of giving back to where she came from and why this special endowment has been established to help the families of West Virginia.

Special Endowment Created for West Virginia Needs

Frank & Ruth LaRock on the Porch at our year-round center in Jonesville, Virginia.

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BATHROOM:

BEFORE ASP: The bathroom door was so small a wheelchair couldn’t even go through it. So

when Curtis had to use the bathroom, he had to use a port-a-potty. The sink was on one side

and the toilet was on the other, which also kept me from taking my disabled husband, Curtis,

to the bathroom even if the door was bigger. I would have to carry him over my shoulder to

take a bath and carry him back to the front of the house. Also, the door to the bathroom was

falling apart.

AFTER ASP: The door was widened, a new door was put up. The sink and toilet are now on

the same side and the bathtub is raised which makes it so much easier for me to get Curtis

in the tub. He can now go to the bathroom and use the toilet. The sink (which my first crew

bought) is a pedestal sink so now Curtis can wash his own hands and face!

BEDROOM:

BEFORE: Walls were nothing but 2x4 studs and a weak floor. I was working on it as I could

to make it usable, but I had limited time and money.

AFTER: The walls are now covered with drywall and it is painted red (thanks to my 3rd week

crew!). The floor is strong and covered with flooring. With this bedroom, I now have a place

for my daughter AND for my mom, who needs to move in so I can take care of her also, as

she has had 2 strokes.

MINE & CURTIS’ BEDROOM:

BEFORE: The doorway was so small that I scraped Curtis’ knee everytime I had to pick him

up and take him somewhere. We had no bedroom door.

AFTER: The doorway is widened and we have a new door!

LAUNDRY ROOM:

BEFORE: I was trying to have my roof replaced but the worker helping me fell through the

ceiling. The room had no ceiling when ASP came.

AFTER: We now have a ceiling and trim.

PORCH/RAMP:

BEFORE: The porch and ramp had no railings on them and a couple people have fallen off

of them before.

AFTER: The railings looks wonderful and we are a lot safer during the winter!

As you can see, you made a huge difference. Thank you very much!

—Wanda, Curtis & Andy Lynn, Delbarton, WV