The short-term volunteer who stayed for three weeks left us, but the other ten short-term volunteers from last week stayed for another week! One crew worked on the siding and the front porch railing of the Yadao house Monday. Another crew spackled...
The word for this week was rain. We’re not talking once a day, as is typical for Puerto Rico, but it rained all day Sunday through Wednesday. Instead of the chickens crowing and the birds singing each morning as we woke up, we woke to the never-...
Jason, MDS driver of volunteers extraordinaire, with his assistant driver, Titus, transported 10 other young Groffdale conference men from Lancaster County to work with us in Pointe-Aux-Chenes, LA for the week of February 1 – 9, 2026. Ingrid of...
Our month of service has come to a close, and we will miss our lovely haven in the woods beside Deer Lake. We fed the deer for the last time and watched the flock of turkeys waddle through the yard. The next month’s long-term volunteers...
On Sunday evening the first group of weekly volunteers from Iowa of 9 young people arrived later than expected due to delays of their flight. The second group of 6 young people from Canada arrived on Monday afternoon due to many closed roads with the...
This past week, the team continued to work on the home in Cleveland, Texas for Hope Disaster Recovery. Work included (almost) finishing the bathroom, new shower plumbing, and a new tiled floor. In the small kitchen area, drywall was mounted and...
The last week of January in Pointe-Aux-Chenes looked different than planned. Due to snowstorms in the northern states, our family from Minnesota had flights canceled. Our registered group from PA was on hold until they might feel safe to drive...
Two of our short-term volunteers arrived on Sunday afternoon. They are from New York state, but had been in California where their sons live, so the storm that stretched across the mid-west and eastern United States did not affect them. However,...
We continue to work near Jayuya, Puerto Rico. This week we have a crew of all males from the United States and Canada. What a hard-working bunch they are. Tuesday the crew split between two different job sites. They finished putting up all the...
