The work in Marianna continues with very cool mornings and warmer afternoons. We worked on four different jobs and ended the work week with a house blessing at Job #2. When Ray’s team left the Job #2 home on Wednesday, the living area was...
Our leadership volunteers this week were David Hughes as Project Director, Patti Hughes as Office Manager, and Ivan and Anna Mary Martin as cooks. The Martins are from Narvon, Pennsylvania. The weekly volunteers this week were from three...
Merlyn, from Ontario, Canada, joined us as a long term volunteer this week. He will be a crew leader with us for four weeks. Several groups of short term volunteers arrived on Sunday evening, 15 from Ohio, and two from Illinois. We began the...
Our long-term team this week included Rollie Ulrich, Project Director from Indiana, Ryan Sprunger, Construction Supervisor from Indiana, Tina Miller, Cook from Indiana, Ina Heinrich, Cook from California, Leo & Mim Martin, Crew Leader and...
I Am An Immigrant During the early years of Texas independence a lot of land was made available for settlement. Soldiers of the Republic of Texas had been paid in land grants and many of them needed money. After beTexasstate, from 1850 to 1860, the...
The Lord God Made Them All At an MDS project, most weeks are a mix of events and emotions that range from the very best to very difficult. This week at the McAllen MDS project I had the joy of signing the job card to start a new house, our 5th...
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 “...