On Saturday most of our group toured a retired oil rig in Morgan City LA. It is now privately owned and open for tours. A retired oil rig worker gave us a phenomenal tour, and even though today’s technology is vastly different than that of this...
This was the final week of MDS Leadership for Verne Geissinger (Project Director,), Joyce Geissinger (Assistant Cook), Connie Goertzen (Head Cook), Janie Heatwole (Office Manager), and Conrad Heatwole (Crew Leader). Hannah Steffen and Janis Ott (...
Four gentlemen, co-workers from the Ephrata area of PA came to Eastern Kentucky to lay block and complete the foundation of house #32. With wet weather in the forecast, they worked hard and completed the project on Wednesday. Because our 4th...
Another big week. Monday started out with the powerful experience of a meeting between Mennonite church leaders, MDS leaders, and FEMA leaders, as well as some MDS funding groups. The topic of discussion? Working together to build resilience in the...
The weather in Welsh, Louisiana this January has been all over the “map”. First week – unseasonably mild and moderate rain. Second week unseasonably frigid – even chilled us hardy Canadians. Our RV’s were shivering...
We had another very productive week in Arcadia, FL. Progess was made on the Hartsfield house. Mudding, sanding, painting, and caulking were pretty much everyday occurrences. It is looking much better. On the Cruse home vinyl flooring was...
The words for this week at the Hardee County RV site are WARMER WEATHER HAS ARRIVED! We are enjoying the beautiful weather – enjoying it so much that when most of us turned on our RV’s A/C, we blew a fuse on the transformer pole! The response...
The work in Dawson Springs is progressing well this third week of the year. The only changes in long term volunteers were the new cooks, Erma Hoover and Kathryn Burkholder from nearby in Kentucky. Dave and Patti Hughes from Ohio were our Project...