I have seen 19 years of short term volunteer groups giving up a week or more of their lives to be the Hands and Feet of Jesus. Many are memorable. One group of young Amish men from Pennsylvania still comes to my mind often. Partly due to the...
It was a rather chilly week, as the nighttime lows reached into the 20s and highs were in the 40s, but our RV volunteers kept warm working inside Peggy and Joe’s houses. Peggy’s ceilings have been drywalled and painted. Soon the crown molding...
This was the first week on the job in Wynne, Arkansas. Our volunteers were a group of 13 from Pennsylvania and New York. Along with a family from Ohio. Two of the house foundations were completed on Tuesday and the other two were completed on Friday...
The week started rather quietly. Our weekly volunteers came from the Groffdale Conference in Pennsylvania. Participants’ names were chosen in a drawing to serve with MDS. When they arrived, someone asked them if they knew each other since...
We began our second week in Newton by attending the Jasper County Cowboy Church on Sunday morning. In the evening, we met to celebrate Mary’s birthday with ice cream, snacks and another rousing game of Swipe. Monday morning, we again split into...
The weather was great for us as we got the project back up and running after the Christmas break, and we were joined by an energetic bunch of young women from Wisconsin and Iowa, as well as another couple also from Iowa. We were also joined by two...
While the Project Director and Office manager and their spouses arrived the week before the project actually started to get things set up in the tool trailer and office trailer, the rest of our workers arrived the weekend of January 16. Some drove...
On Sunday we welcomed a group of 11 from Harrisonburg, Virginia. The organizers were a son and daughter-in-law of our best Dennis and Mildred Showalter, with whom we have volunteered at least twice before. Some of their grandchildren came as well,...
We welcomed a group of ten from Virginia on Sunday afternoon, six women and four men. We were thankful for warmer temperatures this weekend with sunny skies and less wind! Monday was beautiful and sunny with a temperature of 40 degrees, which is...