It was a busy start for2023 here in Eastern Kentucky. Starting on the 3rd of January the long-term team started arriving to get acquainted with the area and each other and to get prepared for the work of repairing homes. Our coordinator Clete was...
This week brought a group of 5 volunteers from Ohio & West Virginia along with 1 volunteer from Kansas and 1 from Illinois. Our leadership team gained an assistant cook from Indiana. This is our last week at the project. We are shutting down...
The end of Thanksgiving break brought in a new group of long-term volunteers. Everyone except for the project director was new. It was challenging for them without their outgoing counterparts to transition them. Our new leaders came from OH and...
A group of fourteen Old Order Amish from Indiana arrived at Bethel Camp early Monday afternoon. They came to our rescue, on rather short notice, after the group previously scheduled was unable to come. After a quick lunch, the Indiana group was ready...
A group of fourteen Old Order Amish from Indiana arrived at Bethel Camp early Monday afternoon. They came to our rescue, on rather short notice, after the ghroup previously scheduled was unable to come. After a quick lunch, the Indiana group...
Six weekly volunteers, four from Ontario, Canada, one from Pennsylvania and one from Michigan, arrived Sunday evening to join the long-term crew of five. In addition, the cook’s sister came for a few days and utilized her painting skills. (If you...
In addition to the long-term volunteer crew of five, eleven weekly volunteers from Pennsylvania and Wisconsin arrived to work on four houses in the eastern Kentucky area. It was a great week with the help of the Wisconsin crew who worked on two...
Volunteers this week were from Iowa and Virginia and Ohio. They continued work on the homes we started last week, and we added a third home to work on. We exchanged the 1 weekly volunteer for another. Tyler came with construction work experience...
Over the weekend the MDS project moved from Knott to Breathitt County. We thank Camp Nathanael for their hospitality while we were there! And now Bethel Mennonite Camp has given us a warm welcome here. This week we had 1 volunteer from Lancaster...