We had no weekly volunteers scheduled until a week ago. The summer youth program group that was going to go to Dawson Springs got redirected to Red Lake due to insufficient work left to do there. Our surprise volunteers came to us from Wisconsin...
For the final week of the Summer Youth Programin Crisfield, eight youth and five adults came from the Neffsville Mennonite Church, Neffsville, PA. Joining us on the leadership team was Tom Fry from Gilbertsville, PA, serving as a crew leader for...
Leo Martin from New Holland, PA arrived Sunday afternoon to join our team of long-termvolunteers as an additional crew leader. Our weekly volunteers this week were from the Vincent Mennonite Church, located in Chester County Pennsylvania. These...
There were two volunteers (Paul Schamback and Luke Keasey) in addition to the Project Director Joe Byler. Saralene Noble House: Kitchen cabinets were hung and countertop installed. Carpet was laid in the three bedrooms. Finished the trim work...
Shingling on April’s house continued and is nearing completion. The rain dictated the progress at times, but with all hands-on deck on Tuesday it helped to further the shingling effort. Roles were reversed at the end of the day with the teens...
A group of 13 energetic youth came from Mercersburg Mennonite Church youth group. Asa Ropp, nephew of head cook Emily Ropp, stayed another week. They worked on getting 3 houses near completion and in fact finished one home. The week ended with a...
This week we were joined by 16 volunteers from Canada which gave us enough volunteers to fill 3 crews. They came with 3 musicians, their guitars and some real good singers. Evening activities were high energy with the 5 youth that came with the...
Fifteen from the Bowmansville Mennonite Church Youth Group joined our 5 long term volunteers bringing our number of volunteers this week to a perfect 20. Storm doors were hung at the Bennett house as well as cleaning done in preparation for the final...
After an adventurous bus and uber trip from Illinois, Anita Schrock and Sovilla Plank arrived to serve as our cooks for the month of July. David King drove from VA to serve as crew leader and Don and Rachel Horst came from KS to serve as Project...