Week 3 at the McAllen project was a busy one again. A group of six men from the Evangelical Mennonite Church in Seminole TX managed to accomplish more than we could have imagined. At the Cisneros house, electrical boxes were installed, and wire...
We welcomed a number of long-term volunteers who will serve out the remaining weeks until this project office “hibernates” until after the new year. Along with these 4 recent long-termers from New York state and Pennsylvania, and the 3 long-...
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...
This week we had 5 volunteers on site, in addition to the long-term staff; 3 young men from Pennsylvania, a young women from New Hampshire, and our cook from Pennsylvania. More tree cutting was completed for a few people, as well as cleaning up one...
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...
Oh, what a week it has been in SW Louisiana!!!! We are still working on Brandalyn’s house in Elton. We finished the drywall in the kitchen, drywalled the ceiling in the bath and framed and insulated for the tub enclosure. We installed...
Week 3 at the McAllen project was a busy one again. A group of six men from the Evangelical Mennonite Church in Seminole TX managed to accomplish more than we could have imagined. At the Cisneros house, electrical boxes were installed, and wire...
Once again greetings from beautiful SW Louisiana! We had another busy week working on Brandalyn’s house. Every day brings us one step closer to giving her a safe and secure house. This week we finished hanging drywall in the living room,...
Longterm staffers were joined by a group of 8 persons from Central Kansas, most of them from the Eden Mennonite Church. Work crews were divided between the house that was started last week, and a second house nearby. At the Cisneros house, also...