Greetings from a cold and wintry West Ashville! Sunday night we welcomed 12 volunteers from the Landis Valley Christian Fellowship and a newly married couple from Ohio. Seven young men arrived from Ontario, Canada for the Bridge Program . This week...
Our winter long term volunteers arrived in Louisiana January 6. Project director is Paul Schamback along with his wife Lisa who is Office manager. Andy Martin, Layne Newswanger, Sam Stoltzfus, Simon Martin, Jonathan Zimmerman, Andrew Zimmerman, and...
This week was a continuation of working on the Wilkes home. Advances were made in finishing the drywall in both bedrooms and painting the ceiling and walls. The bathroom continued to give some challenges with the plumbing, but the plan finally worked...
This week the group was from Lancaster Co., PA. Jon set up a painting studio in the gym beside the Unit. The women painted all the trim, doors and cement boards for Mr. Lindsey and Ms. Phillips. Jon made some drying racks that were able to hold a...
We started this week with the same volunteers from last week: twelve short-term volunteers; eleven long-term volunteers, including the three Rosedale Bible students and Galen and Kathy Waltner, who came to help with the transition and restart...
The Village Chapel of New Holland, PA, sent a group of 8 volunteers this year. They are very consistent to send a group each year. Joining them, from the Mifflinburg, PA, area, was a group of 8 young men. This was a week of celebration as the...
We had a hard-working group of 16 volunteers. The week started with everyone working to finish one project and by Tuesday the group was split between two different job sites. At the first job site they finished installing roof panels, cut soffit,...
We enjoyed having volunteers from a variety of locations to join the three women from PA. British Columbia, Washington, Colorado and Ohio, and new crew leaders from Illinois and Virginia. Hanging sheetrock at Bill’s is about 70% complete, and...
We had a total of 13 volunteers during this week 1/19 – 1/23; 8 Weekly, 1 Long Term, 2 Crew Leaders, and 2 Leadership volunteers, to work on the Mauldin Bridge in Weaverville, and the Briar Hollow Bridge in Fletcher. Our volunteers were from Canada...
