This week our volunteers consisted of a group of 11 young men and their driver from Pennsylvania, a newly retired individual from Pennsylvania, as well as two young men from Virginia. Marlene Martin joined us for a week to be with her husband, Ed,...
Long-term volunteers for this week continued from last week: PD Fred Hershey (AL), CS David King (VA), Crew Leaders Kena and Suetta Hollinger (MI) and Joel Short (OH), head cook Judy Schmidt (Manitoba), assistant cook Millie Hershey (AL), and OM...
Don and Rachel Horst arrived on Saturday from KS to serve as Project Director and Assistant Cook. On Sunday, Ethan Spicher from JZ Engineering in Harrisonburg, VA arrived, as well as, 9 volunteers from Delaware, including our Head Cook, Dottie...
This week’s work was driveway and road repair for several families. The crews are experienced road builders and they worked hard completing projects. Work involved digging out and installing new culverts, grading roads and cleaning up debris...
This week’s long-term volunteers continued from last week: PD Fred Hershey (AL), CS David King (VA), Crew Leaders Ken and Suetta Hollinger (MI), Jon Stuckey (OH), and Joel Short (OH). Also continuing were our head cook, Judy Schmidt (Manitoba...
As we are entering the last week of the project for the fall, we are finishing up one home and making steady progress on the other two. We were short one couple this week but the rest of the crew worked very hard and a lot was accomplished. At the...
This week in Selma, we were joined by the Marion Schmucker group of 9 volunteers from Nappanee, IN., ranging in age from 15 to 75. This group included three 15-year-olds… one accompanied by his grandfather and another by his father. The temperature...
This month we transitioned to a new leadership team: Peter (Construction Supervisor) and Margaret (Head Cook) Goertzen, Erv (Crew Leader) and Esther (Assistant Cook) Wilms, Daryl Horst (Crew Leader), Andrew Zimmerman (Long-term Volunteer), Ed Martin...
