A lively young group of gals from Calgary, Alberta, including, Liesel Retzlaff, Delaney Janzen, Charlene Lauzier and Aspen Redecopp, filled our week with energy and laughter. In addition, Sarah & Paul Szatmary from Port Deposit, MD, who...
This week was filled with volunteers mostly under the age of 25, other than the long-term volunteers. We accomplished a lot of work throughout the week: Metal roofs were put on, windows were installed, drywall and mudding was started. During sharing...
This week, brothers Bob and Gary Tingle from Bakersfield, CA and Stayton, OR as well as Corwin Thompson from Bakersfield, CA and Mark Mahaffie from Manteca, CA volunteered. Transition of project director and office manager happened mid week when...
The long-term leaders, including the cooks, kept the project moving forward for the past two weeks. We did have several daily volunteers that were a very welcome help. We have a trasition in a couple of leadership positions. The Construction...
We are now five weeks into the project. Our time has gone quickly, a lot of work has been accomplished. March seems like so long ago when we first started, meeting homeowners, setting up camp, meeting our team for the first time. A verse that comes...
Volunteers! They came this week, from Indiana and Montana. Volunteers give a different life to this project than happens otherwise. The four men who came from the Goshen, Indiana, area are very skilled carpenters who knew how to get things done. And...
Our week started off with a bit of a challenge. We had three women from Ontario fly to Halifax and three young men, also from Ontario, drive to Cape Breton. The women arrived as planned, but the young men’s cars broke down about two hours from...
This week our devotions focused on Good Friday. The sacrifice made, the gift that is ours, how will we accept this gift and represent the gift to those we encounter both homeowners and other volunteers. It truly was a Holy Week as we focused each...
This first week of April is quite different. We have no weekly volunteers. However, Lois (Project Director), Paul Miller (Construction Supervisor), and I (Office Manager) were joined by Jonas Schmidt, an MDS year-long volunteer from Paderborn,...