We had two of our four houses ready to drywall finish with a third nearly ready at the beginning of this week. A group of men from Fisher IL joined us along with a brother and sister from Kalona IA. Three of the IL group were skilled drywall...
A talented group of 14 young men from Ohio served in Merced, CA, the week of February 10 – 14. Gerry Hughes, the brother of our Crew Leader, Ralph Hughes, from Manitoba, stayed to served his second week. Once again, we long term volunteers give...
These winter weeks are going so quickly! We are never quite sure what each week will bring, but we know for sure that it will bring a group of new volunteers that are ready and willing to get to work! This week we have short term volunteers from...
Super Bowl Sunday – In the morning, we attended Vision Outreach Church with Mary, the homeowner of the house where we had a house blessing last week. The service was very spontaneous – impromptu musical numbers and testimonies and no...
The week of February 3-7, 2025, in Merced, California, flew by as usual. The Burnell Hoover group consisted of 6 young men with great work ethic and skills. Some learned new skills, but all worked hard and mixed well with the Silvanus Martin...
This week’s weather in southeast Texas was finally warm and dry with temperatures even getting up in the 80’s! This helped the team have a very productive week at Jose’s house. One of the first items of business was for Ray and Jim to diagnose...
Imogene’s house was completed with the painting. Peggy’s house continued to have some plumbing issues with the pump which consumed time and was very challenging, still some finishing touches on that property to be done next week. Theresa’s...
We were joined for week four by some new crew leaders. One came to us from the project at Wynne and another crew leader and the assistant cook came from Ontario to join our ranks. Rounding out the week was a crew of twelve men from Manitoba and...
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...