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...
Greetings from Paradise, California. This week was the first week of short term volunteers here in Butte County. Our weekly volunteers came from Pennsylvania, Colorado and Idaho. Our long term volunteers through the month of January are from...
Broken Things Julie Miller is one of those Texas songwriters whose name few people have heard. Born in Waxahachie, Texas, she migrated to Austin and was part of that music community from an early age, writing and performing her songs and...
As we continue the cleanup in Mayfield, KY from the tornadoes that destroyed the town Mennonite Disaster Service along with several other organization are making progress in the cleanup efforts. Our current long-term volunteers are Laverne Geissinger...
Returning, after the Christmas shutdown, was Michelle & Tim Gerber (OH) as our Assistant and Head Cooks, Doug Goertzen (IL) as Crew Leader and Don & Rachel Horst as Project Director and Office Manager (KS). In addition, Clayton Reesor (ON)...
After the long break for Christmas everyone here has been eager to get back to work. This week the prior team has had the opportunity to meet four new team players Bruce and Nancy from Texas, and Dennis and Joanne from Canada. What a delight it...
Eleven volunteers from Pennsylvania arrived joining our five New Yorkers and six long-term volunteers who are from OH, IL, PA and KS, bringing our team to twenty-two this week. Work began Mon. morning removing and installing a new metal roof and...
This week the eight long term volunteers on site had the pleasure of working with a group of two young men and nine young women from Wisconsin. We experienced beautiful music, both vocal and accordion, lots of giggles and outbursts of laughter, jokes...
A group of twelve young men and women from Pennsylvania and New York and their two drivers joined the eight long-termers for a productive week. We worked on three jobs, described below. At House #1 the crew continued to put up the siding, which was...