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Julie Z. Lee Editor Heather Bergren Managing Editor/Designer Dustin Comm Writer
UNITED STATES HEADQUARTERS: Maranatha Volunteers International 990 Reserve Drive Suite 100 Roseville, CA 95678 Phone: (916) 774 7700 Website: www.maranatha.org Email: info@maranatha.org IN CANADA: Maranatha Volunteers International Association c/o V06494C PO Box 6494, Station Terminal Vancouver, BC V6B 6R3 CANADA All notices of change of address should be sent to the Maranatha Volunteers International United States address.
Maranatha spreads the Gospel throughout the world as it builds people through the construction of urgently needed buildings.
PARADISE, CALIFORNIA, USA As a member of the kitchen crew, Lynette Holm, from Oregon, happily slices tomatoes for an upcoming meal on Maranatha’s second Paradise Shed Project. Holm has been on plenty of mission trips overseas, but this was her first Maranatha experience. While it was an unusual circumstance because of COVID-19 requirements (masks, distancing, and new cleaning processes) and because of another fire that broke out in the area during the project, Lynette said it was a good experience. “It was a lot
of fun,” she says. “I enjoyed all the ladies that I worked with—we made a lot of food!” Indeed, a team of 18 women worked together to feed about 100 volunteers a day. Cooking such a massive volume of food meant working long hours that could start at 5 a.m. and stretched into the evening. Being on the kitchen team is always a demanding job and the most important. After all, where would the rest of the volunteers be without the delicious meals for which Maranatha projects have come to be known?
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About the Cover: Sam Aleksic is all smiles while on a renovation project at Pacific Union College in California. He is one of the hundreds of volunteers who have been able to serve in the United States during the pandemic. Photo bywJulie Z. Lee ww.maranatha.org