One volunteer from Iowa stayed with us from last week; we gained 6 young men from Pennsylvania and another man from Ohio. Three people from for our partner Techos Pa Mi Gente (TPMG, Roofs for My People) helped us each day with the construction work...
We had a great second week on the sites in Wynne, Arkansas. Our group of volunteers were eleven folks from Pennsylvania including three young couples along with the family from Ohio. On Miss Pat’s house we finished setting the trusses, installed...
Week number two has come and gone, and again good progress was made. We welcomed a new group of strangers on Sunday and said goodbye to a group of friends on Saturday. This group came from Kansas and was a mixed bunch of folks with lots of skills...
I have seen 19 years of short term volunteer groups giving up a week or more of their lives to be the Hands and Feet of Jesus. Many are memorable. One group of young Amish men from Pennsylvania still comes to my mind often. Partly due to the...
The weather was great for us as we got the project back up and running after the Christmas break, and we were joined by an energetic bunch of young women from Wisconsin and Iowa, as well as another couple also from Iowa. We were also joined by two...
While the Project Director and Office manager and their spouses arrived the week before the project actually started to get things set up in the tool trailer and office trailer, the rest of our workers arrived the weekend of January 16. Some drove...
On Sunday we welcomed a group of 11 from Harrisonburg, Virginia. The organizers were a son and daughter-in-law of our best Dennis and Mildred Showalter, with whom we have volunteered at least twice before. Some of their grandchildren came as well,...
We welcomed a group of ten from Virginia on Sunday afternoon, six women and four men. We were thankful for warmer temperatures this weekend with sunny skies and less wind! Monday was beautiful and sunny with a temperature of 40 degrees, which is...