This week we added Crew Leader Marian Hosler and her husband Wilbur to the team. It was the last week for our cooks, Lois and Erma Wenger. Our other crew leaders are mentioned later in this report, and Dave Hughes was our Project Director with...
A group of 13 energetic youth came from Mercersburg Mennonite Church youth group. Asa Ropp, nephew of head cook Emily Ropp, stayed another week. They worked on getting 3 houses near completion and in fact finished one home. The week ended with a...
This week there were 4 volunteers from Eastern Ohio and 1 volunteer from Western Pennsylvania. Despite the smaller number of weekly volunteers, a lot of work was accomplished and the June goal of getting the 4 houses ready for Summer Youth was...
This week we had an energetic group of 14 young single adult Amish volunteers from eastern Lancaster County Pennsylvania. For 2 days there were 3 volunteers from Kansas. Last week I forgot to mention that Michael Hogg joined us as a long-term...
This week in Dawson Springs our weekly volunteers consisted of one. Bill from Indiana was our only weekly volunteer, and this was his second week of service. Despite this Monday through Thursday, we had a crew of 5 working on Lacy Duke’s house...
The Dawson Springs project started up again after being closed the end of March. The long-term volunteers arrived Wednesday thru Saturday 5/31-6/5. They worked at getting the base camp at 5758 Nortonville Rd, St Charles KY ready for volunteers on...
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...
1. How many volunteers were at the project site this week? Where did they come from? The weekly volunteers in Dawson Springs during the week of January 9 – 24 totaled eight. Six young men from Wisconsin, ages 17-18, came with various skill...
It was good to see familiar faces as two groups arrived this afternoon – eight from the home congregation of Char and Ron in Ohio, and eight from a church in Illinois. We were later joined by two additional volunteers from IL who spent a couple...