NOMADS Team Period 3 @ Whispers of Hope Project in Wichita Falls TX
L to R - Mary Elizabeth Pearce (Director), Martha & Kent Mason, Betsy & Bill Losey, Pat & Don Fowler, Dave & Cathy Smith (leaders), Mary Lou & Paul Stark, Joyce & Jeff Fetters
Concrete slab & foundation for new offices and 20 stall horse barn
While working Period 2 on a NOMADS project back in February we noticed that there had become an opening for the Whispers of Hope Horse Farm in Period 3. We were scheduled to work there during Period 4 so we volunteered to work the last 2 weeks of Period 3 at Whispers and were accepted. That gave us a week to relax and take our time driving from Arizona to Texas before starting there. We arrived Saturday, Feb. 22nd and were greeted by our leaders Dave & Cathy. We parked our trailer and settled in. Gradually over the weekend we met the other members of the NOMADS team. Bill & Betsy Losey from Kansas, Kent & Marsha Mason from NC, Mary Lou & Paul Stark from New York, Don & Pat Fowler from Nebraska along with our leaders Dave & Cathy Smith from Michigan.
Horse Arena >
<<<<< NOMADS RV parking area
Whispers of Hope is a non-profit program that helps physically and mentally challenged children along with Wounded Warriors. It's a equine therapy program operated strictly by volunteers. It has been in existence for more than 12 years. http://whispersofhopehf.org
Due to waiting for contractors to erect the steel building we continued to work on other needed projects around the farm:
Kent & Don make repairs to playground equipment
Martha & Joyce cleaned and painted the restrooms
Bill is painting one of the awards stands that he and I built
Joyce and Martha using wire wheels to prep fence for painting
Joyce painting road front fence and new gates hunter green
Kent and Don heading back to work in the Mule
Finally on Tuesday of our last week the metal starts going up.
It was exciting to see the progress made each day.
We had a great time with this group of NOMADS. It was especially interesting as this was only the second project for "Newbys" Kent & Martha. While many of the others have been doing NOMADS projects for many years. We all blended well together. We were very lucky to have lots of musicians in our group which made morning devotions a lot more fun. Martha played the keyboard, Kent played his violin, Mary Lou played her mandolin and Paul had a variety of guitars to choose from. We had weather that was like being on a roller coaster with one day only reaching 20 degrees, while others were in the 70's.
Next time I will cover Period 4 at Whispers of Hope!
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