Our weekly volunteers who came from southern Indiana, were welcomed by the same long-term volunteers as were here last week. Their arrival time was shortly before breakfast on Monday morning, partly due to some mechanical problems with their van...
This week was a mix of usual and unusual events. Our leadership team was down by 2 as our co-project directors were traveling this week. Many thanks to Ryan, our construction supervisor, and Rex, one of our crew leaders for keeping us on track...
This week we welcomed the Morden Sommerfeld Church group of 12 from Southern Manitoba in addition to 13 long-term volunteers. At Rosie’s home, the kitchen cabinets were installed as well as lights and receptacles. The main panel was hooked up...
Long term volunteers this week were: serving as our Head Cook, Dorothy Miller from Decatur, IL; Assistant Cook, Janice Sackenheim from Berne, IN; Crew Leaders, Matthew Kreeb from Fisher, IL; Jerry Engel from Christiana, PA and David King, Broadway,...
This was an unusual week here in Barre. The entire state of Vermont was declared a disaster area by President Biden. Hurricane Debby threatened residents with more flooding and although it rained hard and long, no major new flooding was reported...
Last week’s “Athletes in Action” Soccer Camp at our host church was a great success. It was a quiet week at MDS camp with no weekly volunteers scheduled. We are back in business this week, with temperatures in the high 20s. We welcomed 19...
It was a melancholy week as we finished two projects and began closing down the camp. There have been some unique challenges over the past 6 weeks including a hurricane, flooding, non-potable water, sporadic septic pumping, shortage of jobs, rain...
Week of July 29 to August 3 we had a fun group of 12 from the Carpenter Mennonite Church in Pennsylvania. Aaron’s house had Four windows removed and replaced along with trim and painting the new windows inside and out. Parkhurst-Johnson’s house...
This week we were joined by a mixed group of 15 volunteers from Virginia and Pennsylvania. As of the end of this week, MDS volunteers have completed 31 jobs and are working on 4 more. Our efforts include cleaning up and removing trash and debris...