An amazing group of 13 eleventh and twelfth graders from Ephrata Mennonite School in Ephrata, Pennsylvania, along with three chaperones, arrived Sunday afternoon. These young people exemplified the spirit of Christ while here in Crisfield. Their...
This week our mornings began with the lovely sound of hymns sung by our volunteers from Lancaster county, PA. It was a meaningful way to do our devotions as we all joined in. The crew of 11 young men and 4 women began rebuilding a home by...
Our big crew this week was from Ohio. Then there was Bryant Swiers’ cousin Tobias from Minnesota, and Steve Barth’s sister with her husband and two daughters from Pennsylvania. We had an awesome week enjoying each other, playing games, teasing,...
Work is progressing at Miss Joy’s home. We did a lot of mudding, sanding, sanding, sanding and painting this week. By the end of each day there was considerable moaning and groaning from stiff, achy arms and legs from we “older” people. ...
On Sunday evening 11 volunteers joined us for the week from several communities in northeast and southeast Ohio. It’s going to be a much cooler week here but except for the new build, most of the work will be indoors. This week at Ava’s, ladies...
Long termers this week were the same as last week with the addition of Lois and Wayne Hochstetler, Bloomington, IL coming to serve as the next project director and office manager; Paul Miller, Lancaster, PA as construction supervisor. Our weekly...
This week we have a crew of 11 from Penn Yan, NY and Lancaster, PA areas. They have done much work and even helped us out with the cooking! We have had a lot of fun and laughter. Some of them were painting Terry’s house in Welsh, as you can see...
This week we welcomed 15 men from the Shipshewana, IN, area as our volunteers for the week. It is good to have them here and we are looking forward to a great week together. We also welcomed Lavern, Ella and Simon, joining us for the month of...
We had another very productive week with our new volunteers. It still has been hotter than usual here in southeast Texas, so the locals tell us, as the temperatures were in the 90’s all week. The volunteers have been taking a lot of water breaks...