Jack Odhiambo and Inko Ndlovu-Mathuthu, yearlong volunteers, arrived Wed. evening joining two more yearlong volunteers, Eric Douglas and Janis Ott, who came on Sunday. David King, serving as a crew leader; Mim and Leo Martin, serving as assistant...
On Sunday evening, we welcomed 17 volunteers from several locations in Kansas. It is exciting to have full teams to send out with anticipation of getting homes restored. On Wednesday, the new Project Director and Office Manager arrived from...
On Sunday afternoon, our volunteers for the week began to arrive – one man from Minnesota and a group of nine adults and 11 children, ages 2-12, from Kansas. It has been a different atmosphere with children in the building! The older children...
The August leadership team arrived on Wednesday, Friday and Saturday. The new team includes: Dave – Project Director from New York; Ruth -Office Manager and Ed – Crew Leader from Kansas; Em – Head Cook and Don – Assistant...
We had no weekly volunteers scheduled until a week ago. The summer youth program group that was going to go to Dawson Springs got redirected to Red Lake due to insufficient work left to do there. Our surprise volunteers came to us from Wisconsin...
This week we were joined by 16 volunteers from Canada which gave us enough volunteers to fill 3 crews. They came with 3 musicians, their guitars and some real good singers. Evening activities were high energy with the 5 youth that came with the...
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,...
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...