We are STILL waiting to experience warm, sunny Florida! It continues to be cold in the mornings; with rainy, cloudy days. Many of us would like to drive to the coast, but are waiting for warmer days! On Monday, four members of Fred’s team...
This week has proved to be a challenge due to the down pour of rain throughout the week. We had started painting the outside of Roxanna’s home in Refugio the before and planned to finish it up this week. Thanks to the hard work of Rita, Nancy...
Blue Lines On a night back about 1975, Laura and I enjoyed listening to music by Steve Fromholtz, under the stars at Waterloo Park near downtown Austin. Over several decades, Steve produced a wealth of songs that resulted in him being named the “...
Greetings from Paradise, California. Our volunteers this week were a large group from Pennsylvania. These gentlemen are seasoned MDS volunteers. They brought experience and humor to our project. Our long term volunteers through the month of...
This week we have a lively group of young couples from near Williamsport, PA. They are all related except the driver and his wife, so they have a lot of fun together, as well as with the rest of us. Jess Rempel and Clayton Reesor are still here as...
We are still waiting to experience warm, sunny Florida! It has been very cold in the mornings; only one afternoon was warm and sunny. We had a lot of rain on Thursday afternoon and evening, and below freezing temperatures two nights. We will be...
As the moon slowly descends into a sky of blues and grays we are again reminded of the verse found in Lamentations 3:22,23, “Because of the Lord’s great love we are not consumed, for his compassion never fail. They are new every morning great is...
Welcome to warm, sunny Florida! Actually, we have experienced very cool (cold!) temperatures, lots of rain and very windy weather on Saturday night. We are looking forward to the warm, sunny Florida weather! Our first week here has been a good...
January 5th found some of the long term team arriving in Rockport to get camp set up for volunteers. This wasn’t too difficult as Disaster Aid Ohio had been using the camp in the fall and had recently left shortly before Christmas. There are...