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...
This week in Selma, we were joined by a youth group of 7 teenagers and 3 adult leaders, from southern Ontario, in the Straffordville area. The temperatures in Selma were fall-like with 30s at night and 60s-70s daytime highs… and some rain mid-week...
This week’s crew from Pennsylvania were also young and energetic, completing over 20 jobs in spite of taking Thanksgiving Day off to do sightseeing, hiking and biking. Again, most of the work was felling or cutting up trees, and cleaning creeks...
Long-term volunteers this week continued from last week: project director Fred Hershey (AL), construction supervisor David King (VA), crew leaders Ken Hollinger (MI) and Jon Stuckey (OH), joined beginning this week by Joel Short (OH). Also...
Happy Thanksgiving from Port Charlotte! Today (Thanksgiving) is a warm sunny 80* in Florida. We are blessed with a group of thirteen cousins from Ohio along with two volunteers from Michigan and three volunteers from Canada. In addition, we welcomed...
Much was accomplished this week. The McAllister home is near completion, with touchup painting and trims left to do. Mary’s home continued to be roughed in and plumbed this week. Mudding and sanding continues, and we hope to finish that next week....
This week in Selma, we were joined by 6 weekly volunteers… 1 from Minnesota, 2 from The Meeting Place church in Winnipeg, Manitoba and 3 men from Ohio. The temperatures in Selma were fall-like with 30s at night and 60s-70s daytime highs We were...
Long-term volunteers this week were new to their roles at the Amory project, except for construction supervisor, David King, from VA. Serving as head cook, Judith Schmidt, Manitoba; assistant cook, Jenny Stuckey, OH; crew leaders, Ken Hollinger, MI...
So much was accomplished this week. We were down one couple but the remaining worked so hard. Team building continued with a game night and our weekly potluck, where we played Two Truths and a Lie. It was fun to get to know our fellow volunteers. At...
