Welcome to week two at the Shuswap project in Scotch Creek, B.C. The six leadership volunteers and one long-term scholarship student remained from the previous week, and a group of 10 from the Austin Christian Academy arrived Sunday evening. The...
A family of six from Manitoba — Dave and Anna Wiebe, their daughter Rhonda and her husband Todd Forbes, and daughters Lorissa and Teagan — arrived on April 26 for a five-week term. Henry and Elizabeth Warkentin left for their home in Alberta on...
A group of ten Amish young men and their driver from Indiana drove through the night and arrived at camp Monday morning. After a quick orientation, they headed out to the job sites. The family of Janis Ott, our year-long German volunteer, also...
Welcome to week one at the Shuswap project in Scotch Creek, B.C. The seven leadership and long-term volunteers arrived the previous week and the camp was almost completely set up and ready for our first three weekly volunteers. Thank you to the...
Our weekly volunteers came from three states this week: five men from Pennsylvania, two men and a woman from Virginia, and a woman from Kentucky. They worked at six different homes during the week. The Pennsylvania crew and one of the Virginia men...
The Lytton, British Columbia response is located in a beautiful mountain valley beside the confluence of the Thompson and Fraser rivers. On June 30, 2021, a wildfire swept through the village of Lytton, destroying more than 90% of the town and...
An energetic group of six students and three staff members from Eastern Mennonite High School were joined by two women from Ontario as our weekly group. At midweek we also welcomed Keith Graybill who is replacing Larry Loganbill as Project Director...
This week we welcomed a group of 10 young people from Lancaster County, along with their two drivers who also joined our work crews. We also welcomed two year-long crew leaders, Jack Odhiambo and Inkosiinhle Ndlovu-Mathuthu, who spent the month of...
There was no fooling around in the Arcadia MDS Unit on April 1! Instead, 15 young men from southern Indiana spread out among several job sites and quickly went to work. At Mr. Smith’s home they completed the crown molding, installed door frames,...