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Weekly Reports

Paradise, CA – April 9-15, 2023

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...

Cape Breton, NS – April 9-15, 2023

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...

Cape Breton, NS – April 2-8, 2023

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...

Paradise, CA – April 2-8, 2023

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,...

Southwest FL – April 2-8, 2023

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...

Cape Breton, NS – March 26 – April 1, 2023

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...

Jennings, LA – March 26 – April 1, 2023

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...

Eastern KY – March 26 – April 1, 2023

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...

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