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Weekly Reports

Venice, FL – SYP – July 13-19, 2025

The Venice leadership team this week continued as last week, with PD LeRoy Janzen (NE), cooks Val and Lynn Kipfer (IN), OM Stan Kauffman (MI), CS Bob Nafziger (PA), crew leaders Maik Hinz (Germany) and Lowell Peachey (KS).  Rita Peachey assisted...

Venice, FL – SYP – July 6-12, 2025

This week’s Venice leadership team included LeRoy Janzen, (NE), who arrived the middle of last week to take the PD hand-off from Mitch Kingsley; head cook Val Kipfer assisted by her husband Lynn (IN); Stan Kauffman, OM (MI) assisted by Rita Peachey...

Conroe, TX – SYP – July 6-12, 2025

Katie & Jonathon Snyder, year-long volunteers, continue to serve as Crew Leaders until early August.  Also here for this week were Crew Leaders Norm Yoder and Dale Horst, Project Director Lynn Miller, Office Manager Emily Goertz, and cooks...

Perry, FL – SYP – July 6-12, 2025

We had a somewhat unusual group of weekly volunteers.  Unusual in that all of them were women—hailing from Pennsylvania, Illinois, and Ontario.  The women from ON flew into Orlando Saturday afternoon.  There was just one problem—their luggage...

Lytton, BC – June 15-25, 2025

On June 14, we said our goodbyes to the last two scholarship students who left at 4:30 am so that they could see the ocean before their flight. Mark was so kind to take them to White Rock. Thanks Mark! Painting the inside of the house was well on its...

Venice, FL – SYP – June 29 – July 5, 2025

The Venice team this week included Mitch Kingsley (PD, Ohio), Val and Lynn Kipfer (head and assistant cook, Indiana), Stan Kauffman (OM, Michigan), Bruce Kindey (CL, Ohio), Ray Heisey (CL, Virginia), year-long volunteers Maik Hinz (Germany) and Mary...

West Asheville – 2 Month Report

I am partial to songs that originate in Texas, but I admit that many great songs come from other places.  Will Kimbrough, born in southern Alabama, growing up with the traffic and ideas flowing along US 90, the Gulf Coast Highway, has written songs...

Conroe, TX – SYP – June 29- July 5, 2025

Katie & Jonathon Snyder from IN, year-long volunteers, continue to serve as Crew Leaders until early August.  Also here for this week were Crew Leaders Norm Yoder and Bill Metschulat, Project Director Abe Wiebe, Office Manager Emily Goertz, and...

Perry, FL – SYP – June 29 – July 5, 2025

Some of the weekly volunteers from Loogootee, IN, were familiar faces to our project director and construction supervisor.  They had previously served in Dawson Springs, KY, two years ago building new homes.  The work was different for them this...

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