Crew leader, Lauren King, returned home to Ohio last Saturday. Rob Beiswenger from Pennsylvania arrived later that day as her replacement. The weekly volunteers this week are all men from the Ephrata, Pennsylvania area. The four friends traveled...
Our time here in Arcadia is winding down for the long term volunteers. Paul and Lisa Schamback have served as project director and office manager from January 3 through March 30. Emma and Don Yoder have served as cook and assistant cook for that...
When groups travel to an MDS project location, they often bring along copies of their favorite song books. The Heartland Hymns collection has been in circulation for many years and is seen often. Mountain Laurel is a favorite of many groups, and I am...
Following the cancellation of our group, we only had 2 weekly volunteers join us this week. They, along with 5 long term volunteers, were a mostly experienced team with a young adult eager to learn new skills. We finished touch ups and cleaning at...
This week we had volunteers from PA, DE, and Ontario, Canada! A group of 6 volunteers from Mellingers Mennonite returned to Crisfield after having served here last March. Jeff and Jane Holly, from Ontario, were just here in January and returned...
We had a fun and energetic crew this past week from Lancaster, PA area. Lots of mudding, taping and sanding were done on all 3 repair projects that we are working on. In the evenings there were intense pickleball games with the younger men while...
Jerusalem Ridge Bill Monroe, the father of bluegrass music, said he could write a three minute song in thirty seconds. Repetition is the key to that claim. The instrumental Jerusalem Ridge, is one of those songs, written in 1970. The song has...
New month – new people. Vernon and Mary; Jim and Linda; Darlene and Lynn and Ken and Rita headed out of Welsh; either to return directly home or to take a slower journey in order to enjoy some additional southern sun. Their shoes need to be...