The weather was great for us as we got the project back up and running after the Christmas break, and we were joined by an energetic bunch of young women from Wisconsin and Iowa, as well as another couple also from Iowa. We were also joined by two...
While the Project Director and Office manager and their spouses arrived the week before the project actually started to get things set up in the tool trailer and office trailer, the rest of our workers arrived the weekend of January 16. Some drove...
On Sunday we welcomed a group of 11 from Harrisonburg, Virginia. The organizers were a son and daughter-in-law of our best Dennis and Mildred Showalter, with whom we have volunteered at least twice before. Some of their grandchildren came as well,...
We welcomed a group of ten from Virginia on Sunday afternoon, six women and four men. We were thankful for warmer temperatures this weekend with sunny skies and less wind! Monday was beautiful and sunny with a temperature of 40 degrees, which is...
The first week of this new year at Selma has been very productive. Our volunteers came from Philadelphia, Iowa, Goshen IN, Maryland, Delaware, New York, and other places. We had a pastor and a retired college professor to mix with our younger set,...
The long term team arrived on Thursday, Jan. 2, and started right in on preparing the facility for the new winter term here. No one has been onsite for MDS here since March of 2024 so there was cleaning and organizing to do, along with hooking up...
Thirteen volunteers, all from other areas of California, joined the 11 long term volunteers in Merced, CA, the week of January 5 – 10, 2025. This was the opening week of the project. Habitat for Humanity had finished the preliminary work in...
A new week, a new month, and a new year. New long-term volunteers arrived in Port Charlotte to continue the restoration work for survivors of Hurricane Ian. Some of the folks we worked for had also suffered losses as a result of Hurricanes Helene...
