This week we had 15 youth from the Denver, PA area, as well as two young ladies from New York. All together they were a power house of carpentry finishers, roofers, and painters. The roofers steamed through two of the extra jobs that would otherwise...
This week we had 13 youth from East Earl, PA, whose fearless leader Wesley Nolt got sick and couldn’t come. The highlight this week was a true Louisiana Mardi Gras, which in our area began with the Jennings parade on Saturday before the boys...
Another big week. Monday started out with the powerful experience of a meeting between Mennonite church leaders, MDS leaders, and FEMA leaders, as well as some MDS funding groups. The topic of discussion? Working together to build resilience in the...
The middle of the month has come and gone, and what a doozer it has been here in Jennings. On Monday evening we had freezing rain and extremely low temperatures in the night (19 F), which froze the water pipes to the campers and burst some of the...
Happy 2024 to all! At Jennings, Louisiana we have taken off running, with a large crew of 20 from New York, Ohio and Pennsylvania. Most of them are cousins, including (not leastly) Baby Juanita Zimmerman, who came along with her parents Ryan and Ida...
A group of 12 young women and men from Pennsylvania joined us in Jennings for two weeks, Dec. 3-16. Since they were already familiar with the work, the second week started out smoothly. Larry joined us early in the second week to do the electrical...
This week a group of 11 young men from Pennsylvania joined us in Jennings. They were hard workers, and we accomplished a lot this week. They also took some time to have fun. We had rain in the forecast two days, but it only kept us from working...
This Thanksgiving week, we were thankful to be together with sixteen of us who already knew each other from last week. On Thanksgiving Day, we all got in our vehicles and drove the one-and-a-half miles to Jim and Janet’s home, where we joined them...
This Thanksgiving week, we were thankful to be together with sixteen of us who already knew each other from last week. On Thanksgiving Day, we all got in our vehicles and drove the one-and-a-half miles to Jim and Janet’s home, where we joined them...
