Volunteers from Manitoba and Pennsylvania joined us this week. With their help the carpenter work at Scott’s house is finished. That included hanging doors, installing cabinets, trimming doors and windows and touch up painting. The Wynne Long Term...
This group of 18 worked their way out of jobs in Planada by noon on Friday. The Lyndell Martin group stole all of our hearts, and there were tears when they left the driveway waving from their vehicle windows. Starting on Monday, they tore...
Work continued this week at the Minter home. Volunteers installed flooring and trim, and then, painted and hung doors in the bathroom. Window boxes were made and installed where the front sliding patio doors had been in the converted garage. ...
Our week five volunteers were a group of 14 men and women from the Goshen, Indiana area. It was also transition week and we were joined by the new construction supervisor from Manitoba on Wednesday, and by the next project director and office manager...
Our group this week was four couples from Martinsburg and New Enterprise, Pennsylvania, all newlyweds. A fifth couple was scheduled to come but got sick. Two of them had been with us in Jennings as singles last winter! So it was fun to meet them with...
This is the week when we observe Valentine’s Day, so it is appropriate that there was a morning devotion and a song that each highlight the importance of the heart in everything that you choose to do in life. Tuesday, the driver for the team of...
The work continues on Joe’s house, as we finished painting and texturing the ceilings, replacing the crown molding and baseboards, and laying flooring in the dining room, kitchen, bathroom, and spare room. Joe is so very happy with our work so far...
This week was a transition week for everyone at the project as we moved from Arecibo back to the Techos headquarters in San Juan, and an OM transition midweek. The volunteers this week were from Canada, USA, and Germany. (If I make the a broad...
We had a fairly warm week with several severe thunderstorms here in southeast Texas, but good progress was still completed on Jose’s house. In the beginning of the week Tye, Ray and Darlene finished drywall installation as Jonathan, Wilma and...
