The February leadership team replaced the January leadership volunteers this week. Weekly volunteers for the next two weeks arrived on Sunday, February 8. A group of nine from Kansas, a woman from Pennsylvania and two gentleman, previous business...
Departing Weekly Volunteers were: Brandon, Matthew, Calvin, Nelson, Anthony, Matthew, Arnold, Linford and, Moses – all from various communities in Missouri. Blake and Samuel, two Rosedale Trade students, also finished their 6 week term with us. ...
Our second week at the Bridges project was off to a good start as we welcomed six new short term volunteers. Four men from Ohio joined us, as well as a couple from Virginia. The five men will work on bridges and Lori and I will work together to...
Warmer temperatures allowed some of the volunteers to work on a roof at the Rogers’ house. They began by tearing off the old shingles, making repairs on the roof as needed, and finally putting on the new shingles. They were able to complete the...
This past week, work was completed on Miss Sonia’s home in Cleveland, Texas for Hope Disaster Long Term Recovery. The kitchen cabinets were installed, new curtains and valence hung, kitchen sink and taps hooked up, a new counter...
Our week began with a campfire Super Bowl Party. We welcomed the Austin’s, Ford’s and Hudak’s to the camp, which brought us up to 15 volunteers. The group split up to work on three houses, laying floors, building walls, insulating the...
The four of us who arrived to serve for a month here building bridges arrived just before a big snow was predicted. We all come from Ohio, so we should be used to snow! We made the move to our accommodations on Friday and spent most of Saturday...
Our week began driving our FWD trucks and trailers on unplowed, snow packed roads to the three house sites. We received 6-8 inches of snow on Saturday and the area is quite unprepared for snow of any amount! We were very grateful that our two...
Departing Weekly Volunteers: Amos, Delton, Roy, Ray, Kenneth, Jaydon, Loren, Randall, Emory, Kevin, Mark all from Ohio. Departing Long Term Volunteers: Jonathan and Andrew from New York. Departing Cooks: Susan and Kara (both had such...