Volunteers! They came this week, from Indiana and Montana. Volunteers give a different life to this project than happens otherwise. The four men who came from the Goshen, Indiana, area are very skilled carpenters who knew how to get things done. And...
Our week started off with a bit of a challenge. We had three women from Ontario fly to Halifax and three young men, also from Ontario, drive to Cape Breton. The women arrived as planned, but the young men’s cars broke down about two hours from...
This week our devotions focused on Good Friday. The sacrifice made, the gift that is ours, how will we accept this gift and represent the gift to those we encounter both homeowners and other volunteers. It truly was a Holy Week as we focused each...
This first week of April is quite different. We have no weekly volunteers. However, Lois (Project Director), Paul Miller (Construction Supervisor), and I (Office Manager) were joined by Jonas Schmidt, an MDS year-long volunteer from Paderborn,...
We began the month of April with a group of volunteers from Bridgewater and Dayton, VA. Their driver, from Harrisonburg, also worked with the teams. A number of Long Term Volunteers departed at the end of March and early April. We are deeply grateful...
What does a work week look like in MDS? MDS is fellowship, work, touching lives, both the homeowners we volunteer for and touching the lives of our fellow volunteers! Every day we have the opportunity to serve our Lord Jesus is real ways, being the...
This is our last week at Jennings, for the winter season and possibly ever. It remains to be seen whether an MDS presence will return in the fall. So we are making the most of it, with “lasts” to last in our memories forever. The church people...
An energetic group of high school students from Hagerstown Academy in Hagerstown MD volunteered this week. It was a week for wrapping up MDS projects. Work was done in five different homes. The Spicer home was blessed on Thursday with a few punch...
Thirteen students from Hillcrest Academy in Iowa joined us on Sunday evening, along with their two group leaders. All the students are away from school at various learning experiences and we are glad they chose to serve here with MDS. This is a...
