Eight young ladies from Shippensburg, Pennsylvania, along with their driver, arrived early Sunday evening. Two college-age young fellows from New York flew to Sarasota and then rented a U-Haul van to drive to Arcadia. Because they were only 19 years...
This week, the long-term volunteers switched. Excitement was in the air to achieve the week’s goal to get two floors on and some walls standing. Two floors did get put on but, on Friday at 9 am, one wall was standing when we had hoped for three. ...
Our newest volunteer, Connie Reimer, arrived Sunday night. The cook, Shirley, from last week, came back Sunday night with groceries and cooked her last meal for us on Monday night. She stayed to meet the next cook, Judy Schmidt, from Manitoba, whom...
Long-term volunteers this week were Dottie and Tim Weber from Pennsylvania as head and assistant cook; David King from Virginia as construction supervisor; John Stutzman from Montana as crew leader; Don and Rachel Horst from Kansas as project...
Ten young ladies from Kentucky and their driver couple arrived Sunday evening ready to apply their skills to the needs in Arcadia. Monday morning two daily volunteers from Oregon arrived to help out for two days. For many of the volunteers this was...
Welcome to week two at the Shuswap project in Scotch Creek, B.C. The six leadership volunteers and one long-term scholarship student remained from the previous week, and a group of 10 from the Austin Christian Academy arrived Sunday evening. The...
A family of six from Manitoba — Dave and Anna Wiebe, their daughter Rhonda and her husband Todd Forbes, and daughters Lorissa and Teagan — arrived on April 26 for a five-week term. Henry and Elizabeth Warkentin left for their home in Alberta on...
A group of ten Amish young men and their driver from Indiana drove through the night and arrived at camp Monday morning. After a quick orientation, they headed out to the job sites. The family of Janis Ott, our year-long German volunteer, also...
Welcome to week one at the Shuswap project in Scotch Creek, B.C. The seven leadership and long-term volunteers arrived the previous week and the camp was almost completely set up and ready for our first three weekly volunteers. Thank you to the...
