Our leadership crew arrived in Arcadia, FL on January 3 to get organized for our first volunteer group to arrive on Sunday night, January 7. Leadership consists of Paul and Lisa Schamback from Croghan, NY as Project Director and Office Manager for...
Happy New Year from the Hardee County RV site. The volunteers have all arrived in Zolfo Springs, except for Karen, who is still in Canada in the hospital. She had another surgery after returning home for Christmas and is now recuperating there...
Six couples – three American (OH,IA and IN) and three Canadian (BC, AB and MB) arrived last weekend in Welsh, La. For most, if not all, the weather and roads leading here were uncharacteristically good for this time of year. We will be...
Happy 2024 to all! At Jennings, Louisiana we have taken off running, with a large crew of 20 from New York, Ohio and Pennsylvania. Most of them are cousins, including (not leastly) Baby Juanita Zimmerman, who came along with her parents Ryan and Ida...
We had 12 weekly volunteers the week of January 8-12, 2024. Nine (8 men and 1 woman) came from Village Chapel in the Lancaster, PA, area. These folks were friends and relatives of two of the long term leadership. One young man came from Leola, PA...
This week saw us trying to bring our projects to a good stopping point. After getting much done on the Gaona home last week, the group is back at the Snelling house. The furring out has been completed, and prepping for drywall has begun. Cindy D. and...
A group of 12 young women and men from Pennsylvania joined us in Jennings for two weeks, Dec. 3-16. Since they were already familiar with the work, the second week started out smoothly. Larry joined us early in the second week to do the electrical...
This week we had a delightful and hardworking group of (young) Old Order Mennonite women from the New York Finger Lakes region. A married couple from Nebraska continued their service into a second week. There were a lot of good times and good...