Sunday: Pim and Mary-Ann Van Oeveren (cook) arrived from Salmon Arm, B.C. Mark and Jonathan arrived in time for orientation and ice cream. Monday: Lunches, breakfast, devotions, job assignments and off to work! Mary-Ann and Sandra braved a strong...
It was a joyous week with seventeen young ladies from Wisconsin who contributed their building, singing, and volleyball skills. We were a full house with a combined 25 weekly and long-term volunteers with us all week. Our breakfast and supper...
This has been an exciting week. A new volunteer, Jonathan Rempel, and some returning volunteers, Gerald, Mark, Connie, Ben and Otto, came to help the long-term volunteers Todd, Rhonda and Dave with the next stage of the house. The ridge vent...
The work is winding down here in Arcadia. We had no weekly volunteers. Still, it was a busy week for the six long-termers, who are closing the site here and preparing to move the project to Venice, Florida. Several of the guys finished up the...
We had a delightful mix of volunteers this week coming from as far away as Shippensburg, Pa; Tucson, AZ; Berne, IN, Winnipeg, MB and as close as Saint Paul, Rochester and Pierz, MN. This was the last week long-term volunteers John Stutzman, David...
Twenty hardworking volunteers came to join us in the Shuswap this week. Five came from S.K. and were determined to finish framing a whole house. They had to do it a bit backwards, as the house they were hoping to frame didn’t have the basement...
Volunteers are continuing to make progress on the house rebuild in Lytton, B.C. Wayne Drudge, Leonard Peters and Otto Neufeld from B.C. came to use their skills this week along with the rest of the crew: Todd, Rhonda and Dave. Patsy and Owen,...
Six Bethel College students as well as Cleo Koop, Gail Graber and Jamila Branch arrived from Kansas to join our long-term volunteers this week. Monday evening, Inko Ndlovu-Mathuthu, year-long volunteer from Zimbabwe, joined us as a crew leader,...
A full van of ten young Amish ladies, a chaperone couple and driver couple, all from Indiana, arrived Sunday evening in Arcadia, ready to apply their skills where needed. Some of the crew installed trim, did texture mudding and painting on the...