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Weekly Reports

Eastern KY – July 2-8, 2023

A group of 16 UMCOR volunteers from Alabama worked through the week.  A local Methodist church provided lodging for them and they brought their own cooks with them.   The group included several skilled carpenters along with youth and adult helpers...

Red Lake, MN – July 2-8, 2023

This week 4 new leadership volunteers joined the team.  One couple came from Lancaster, PA – our head cook and a crew leader.  The other couple came from just down the road in Bemidji, MN – our assistant cook and office manager.  Their...

Red Lake, MN – June 25 – July 1, 2023

Eleven Old Order Amish young men, ages 19 – 21, from Lancaster County, Pennsylvania arrived in an RV Sunday evening. After hours of traveling, they still had energy to cook their hot dogs and play some games of ladder golf. Throughout the week,...

Cape Breton, NS – June 18-24, 2023

As happens on the weekend, we said goodbye to one crew and hello to another crew. This weekend 11 left on the 17th and 11 new crew members arrived for a total of 18 volunteers this week. Breanna’s house: The holes in bathroom and pantry ceilings...

Red Lake, MN – June 18-24, 2023

A group of six, two of them fifteen year-old youth, from Whitestone Mennonite Church in Hesston, Kansas arrived as part of the Summer Youth Program to help repair houses on the Red Lake Reservation. Monday morning the group headed out on the service...

Eastern, KY – June 18-24, 2023

Progress was made on the M & T Back home.  Two retired couples came Tuesday and started painting interior walls on Wednesday.  I, Joe, along with two young men from the Bruderhof community near my house, arrived Wednesday evening.  We worked...

Dawson Springs, KY – June 18 – 24, 2023

This week we had an energetic group of 14 young single adult Amish volunteers from eastern Lancaster County Pennsylvania.  For 2 days there were 3 volunteers from Kansas. Last week I forgot to mention that Michael Hogg joined us as a long-term...

Dawson Springs, KY – June 11-17, 2023

This week in Dawson Springs our weekly volunteers consisted of one.  Bill from Indiana was our only weekly volunteer, and this was his second week of service.  Despite this Monday through Thursday, we had a crew of 5 working on Lacy Duke’s house...

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