Three weekly volunteers, Carli, Vicki and Randy Wilt from York, PA arrived safe and sound Sunday evening. The Wilt family was welcomed on their first MDS assignment by our long term volunteers, Mim & Leo Martin, from New Holland, PA, Jonas...
Our team this week included 7 weekly volunteers from Goshen, IN, 5 long-term volunteers, Mim & Leo Martin, from New Holland, PA, Jonas Schmidt from Germany and Don & Rachel Horst, from Newton, KS bringing this week’s team to a grand total...
We enjoyed a fun week with the Bomberger family from Lititz, Pennsylvania. Gabby Bomberger, MDS Volunteer Training Specialist, along with her father, Todd, and brother, Zach, arrived Sunday evening. They put in a full week of work, along with our...
August 14 to 20 was a quiet, but exciting week in Jennings, Louisiana. It was a quiet week because we had no weekly volunteers. It was an exciting week because Jonas Schmidt, from Altenbeken, Germany arrived mid-week as a year-long volunteer. Jonas...
We welcomed Mary Joyce and Laura Faye from New York as our two weekly volunteers this week. Mary Joyce has worked with MDS previously and she filled our expectations of serving as a capable fill-in crew leader. They worked at the house in Elton,...
They arrived Sunday evening on a coach bus, full of energy that lasted the entire week. Twenty-three Old Order Amish young people from Lancaster County, Pennsylvania, all between the ages of 19 and 26, had chosen to spend a week repairing hurricane-...
MDS Jennings was a beehive of activity Sunday evening July 24th. A single white bus arrived with 17 volunteers ready to tackle the many opportunities provided by MDS. The majority of the volunteers were from the Shiloh Mennonite youth group...
Sunday evening we were happy to invite eight (8) weekly volunteers from Saint Louis Mennonite Fellowship. After a full day of travel, they still had energy in reserve to participate in the evening orientation. We were blessed to have several...
We were delighted to welcome another Goshen group from the Assembly Mennonite Church. Our own Darin Bontrager and his wife Amy were sponsors for the group. The group arrived Sunday evening and completed the orientation provided by Don, project...