CAM's Resources for Ministry in Appalachia

• Introduction to Appalachia for Volunteers
• Volunteering in Appalachia (Manual for those planning a mission trip)
• A Workcamp Manual (Manual for those planning to host work groups)
• A Primer for Mainline Appalachian Congregations
• Fundamentals for Survival in the Parrish
• Accents of the Reformed Faith for Appalachia
• The Small Church as Right Brain Community
• Holiness and Hilarity

Additional Resources/Bibliography

• Alexander, John. Appalachia: A History. University of North Carolina Press, 2002.
• Arnow, Hariett Simpson. The Dollmaker. Avon, 1999.
• Billings, Dwight B. and Kathleen M. Blee. The Road to Poverty: The Making of Wealth and Hardship in Appalachia. Cambridge University Press, 2000.
• Carawan, Guy and Candie Carawan, eds. Voices from the Mountains. University of Georgia Press, 1996.
• Covington, Dennis. Salvation on Sand Mountain: Snake Handling and Redemption in Southern Appalachia. Penguin USA, 1996.
• Dorgan, Howard. The Regular Baptists of Central Appalachia: Brothers and Sisters in Hope. University of Tennessee Press, 1989.
• Drake, Richard B. A History of Appalachia. University of Kentucky Press, 2001.
• Dyer, Joyce, ed. Bloodroot: Reflections on Place by Appalachian Women Writers. University of Kentucky Press, 1998.
• Forrest, Carter. The Education of Little Tree. University of New Mexico Press, 2001.
• Giardina, Denise. Storming Heaven. Ivy Books, 1987.
• Giardina, Denise. The Unquiet Earth: A Novel. Ivy Books, 1992.
• Higgs, Robert J., Ambrose N. Manning, and Jim Wayne Miller, eds. Appalachia Inside Out Volume I: Conflict and Change. University of Tennessee Press, 1995.
• Higgs, Robert J., Ambrose N. Manning, and Jim Wayne Miller, eds. Appalachia Inside Out Volume II: Culture and Custom. University of Tennessee Press, 1995.
• Hinsdale, Maryann. It Comes from the People: Community Development and Local Theology. Temple University Press, 1995.
• House, Silas. Clay's Quilt. Algonquin Books of Chapel Hill, 2001.
• Jones, Loyal. Appalachian Values. Jesse Stuart Foundation, 1994.
• Jones, Loyal. Faith and Meaning in the Southern Uplands. University of Illinois Press, 1999.
• Karon, Jan. At Home in the Web of Life: The Mitford Years. Penguin USA, 1996.
• Kingsolver, Barbara. Prodigal Summer. HarperPerennial^tm, 2001.
• Lewis, Ronald L. Transforming the Appalachian Countryside: Railroads, Deforestation, and Social Change in West Virginia, 1880-1920. University of North Carolina Press, 1988
• McCauley, Deborah Vansau. Appalachian Mountain Religion: A History. University of Illinois Press, 1995.
• McCrumb, Sharyn. Novels which present Appalachian values and history. CLICK HERE
• Norris, Randall and Jean-Philippe Cypres. Women of Coal. University of Kentucky Press, 1996.
• O'Brien, John. At Home in the Heart of Appalachia. Alfred A. Knopf, 2001.
• Pudup, Mary Beth, Dwight B. Billings, and Altina L. Waller, eds. Appalachia in the Making: The Mountain State in the Nineteenth Century. University of North Carolina Press, 1995.
• Settle, Mary Lee. The Beulah Quintet. University of South Carolina Press, 1996.
• Shackleford, Laurel and Bill Weinberg, eds. Our Appalachia: An Oral History. Hill and Wang, 1977.*
• Shifflett, Crandall A. Coal Towns: Life, Work and Culture in Company Towns of Southern Appalachia, 1880-1960. University of Tennessee Press, 1991.
• Still, James. River of Earth. University Press of Kentucky, 1985.
• Stuart, Jesse. Strength from the Hills. Jesse Stuart Foundation, 1988.
• Stuart, Jesse. Trees of Heaven. University Press of Kentucky, 1980.
• Turner, William H. and Edward J. Cabbell, eds. Blacks in Appalachia. University Press of Kentucky, 1985.