After an adventurous bus and uber trip from Illinois, Anita Schrock and Sovilla Plank arrived to serve as our cooks for the month of July. David King drove from VA to serve as crew leader and Don and Rachel Horst came from KS to serve as Project...
How many volunteers were at the project site this week? Where did they come from? There were 20 volunteers from Daviess County, Indiana and one volunteer from Tremont, Illinois. Describe briefly the work done and the accomplishments for...
A group of 16 UMCOR volunteers from Alabama worked through the week. A local Methodist church provided lodging for them and they brought their own cooks with them. The group included several skilled carpenters along with youth and adult helpers...
This week 4 new leadership volunteers joined the team. One couple came from Lancaster, PA – our head cook and a crew leader. The other couple came from just down the road in Bemidji, MN – our assistant cook and office manager. Their...
Eleven Old Order Amish young men, ages 19 – 21, from Lancaster County, Pennsylvania arrived in an RV Sunday evening. After hours of traveling, they still had energy to cook their hot dogs and play some games of ladder golf. Throughout the week,...
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...
As happens on the weekend, we said goodbye to one crew and hello to another crew. This weekend 11 left on the 17th and 11 new crew members arrived for a total of 18 volunteers this week. Breanna’s house: The holes in bathroom and pantry ceilings...
A group of six, two of them fifteen year-old youth, from Whitestone Mennonite Church in Hesston, Kansas arrived as part of the Summer Youth Program to help repair houses on the Red Lake Reservation. Monday morning the group headed out on the service...
Progress was made on the M & T Back home. Two retired couples came Tuesday and started painting interior walls on Wednesday. I, Joe, along with two young men from the Bruderhof community near my house, arrived Wednesday evening. We worked...