A group of 15 volunteers from the Martindale and Parkview Mennonite Churches in Pennsylvania arrived Sunday, February 22. All young people with lots of energy, they eagerly tackled the job of building houses Monday morning. A team of 14 volunteers...
COLD temperatures and wind changed Monday’s work plans. Everyone was able to work indoors. Mudding and taping continued at several locations this week. Work progressed to painting and prepping the floors at the Culler house. Later in the...
Work continued on the Hayes’ home this week, including mudding and sanding of all the rooms. The kitchen/living area is ready for painting, while the rest of the rooms still need a little work. Window boxes with casings were constructed by Tom...
Two more projects were completed this week, one in Perry and one in Steinhatchee. In Perry, the damaged laundry room was rebuilt and ceramic tiles were installed on the floor. Leonard and Jonathan did a beautiful job there. In Steinhatchee, two...
The weekly volunteers were: Brian, Jolene, Lester, Jordan, Cheryl, Sarah, Rachel, Bernell, Lowell and Elizabeth – all from Pennsylvania. The leadership team was unchanged from the previous two weeks. This was the youngest group of volunteers to...
This weekend, long term volunteers Brenten and Caleb joined us. They served in Asheville for three weeks in February and wanted to spend a week doing some bridge building so they will spend their last week of volunteering here in Bat Cave. Then on...
For the week of February 15-20, our group came from Indiana. They consisted of 3 young couples and 6 single gals. Between the laughs, singing and energetic fellowship, they accomplished much. They finished the subfloor, built walls and partitions...
A group of men from Holmes County Ohio began their week in the mountains of Puerto Rico near Jajuya and ended the week in the city of San Juan. Wednesday was the transition day following a well-attended home dedication. All four Jajuya projects begun...
We enjoyed another beautiful weather week here in southeast Texas! Our volunteers continued to make great progress on the repairs of both the Wilkes home and Karen J’s home. At Wilkes’ home, Billy continued to work on building a ramp with the...
