Volunteers are continuing to make progress on the house rebuild in Lytton, B.C. Wayne Drudge, Leonard Peters and Otto Neufeld from B.C. came to use their skills this week along with the rest of the crew: Todd, Rhonda and Dave. Patsy and Owen,...
Six Bethel College students as well as Cleo Koop, Gail Graber and Jamila Branch arrived from Kansas to join our long-term volunteers this week. Monday evening, Inko Ndlovu-Mathuthu, year-long volunteer from Zimbabwe, joined us as a crew leader,...
A full van of ten young Amish ladies, a chaperone couple and driver couple, all from Indiana, arrived Sunday evening in Arcadia, ready to apply their skills where needed. Some of the crew installed trim, did texture mudding and painting on the...
Our crew remains similar to last week, except Gerald Dyck, the response co-coordinator with Mark Rempel, came to help and encourage us for a few days. Monday: The week began with completing sheathing of the shear walls. Due to prevailing high winds...
This week, we had a total of 18 volunteers, but our dinner table often held up to 22. We have local volunteers come in for the day. They are led by Wes Janzen, who has done a marvellous job of recruiting. A number of our volunteers came from the...
Eight young ladies from Shippensburg, Pennsylvania, along with their driver, arrived early Sunday evening. Two college-age young fellows from New York flew to Sarasota and then rented a U-Haul van to drive to Arcadia. Because they were only 19 years...
This week, the long-term volunteers switched. Excitement was in the air to achieve the week’s goal to get two floors on and some walls standing. Two floors did get put on but, on Friday at 9 am, one wall was standing when we had hoped for three. ...
Our newest volunteer, Connie Reimer, arrived Sunday night. The cook, Shirley, from last week, came back Sunday night with groceries and cooked her last meal for us on Monday night. She stayed to meet the next cook, Judy Schmidt, from Manitoba, whom...
Long-term volunteers this week were Dottie and Tim Weber from Pennsylvania as head and assistant cook; David King from Virginia as construction supervisor; John Stutzman from Montana as crew leader; Don and Rachel Horst from Kansas as project...