This week in Selma, we were joined by a group of 12 volunteers from a Groffdale Congregation in the Penn Yan area of New York, led by Kristine Zimmerman. The group comprised of 2 men and 10 women. The group leader, Kristine, and her husband Reuben,...
This week in Selma, we were joined by a group of 7 volunteers from Diller Mennonite Church in southern Pennsylvania, led by Joanne Halteman. The weather in Selma was fall-like with cool mornings and warm, mostly sunny days. Early in the week, at the...
This week we were blessed with a group (11) of young adults and their leaders from a church in Pennsylvania. This week we started a new job at Genevieve’s house. This house has quite a long list of items to complete including some demolition and...
This week the volunteers numbering 15 were an international group. There were volunteers from New York, Kentucky, and Pennsylvania. By far the largest group consisted of college students from Winnipeg, Canada. Work was done on the Reynold’s...
Our group this week was four couples from Martinsburg and New Enterprise, Pennsylvania, all newlyweds. A fifth couple was scheduled to come but got sick. Two of them had been with us in Jennings as singles last winter! So it was fun to meet them with...
This week we had four people from Pennsylvania, three at very short notice. We were grateful they were able to come! One, Alvin, is an elderly construction worker who still works at least 10 hours a day! Five more volunteers came from New York, to...
The weekend was very busy with long-term leadership transition. This always means a grand bedding washing, room sweep-out (and usually a mop – good-bye, dust bunnies!), and a scramble to find enough clean pillows, sheets and blankets for the new...
Last Sunday we attended Pastor John Grayson’s church. He is on the long-term recovery team, pastors three churches, runs a small homeless shelter, a performing arts theater, and numerous other small missions in town. He held anointings for several...
