Stories from the Field Team

Learn about projects, volunteers, residents, and more!

SilverLeaf

Located at a natural entrance into the Black Hills, ‘Hay Camp,’ was the original name of modern Rapid City when it was founded in 1876. Founded by a group of somewhat…

Lamplighter

Imagine losing your rifle and a town later being named after that mistake! It was 1876 and A.C. Peale, who worked for the U.S. Geological Survey, wrote on his map, ‘rifle’…

Riverside West

Celebrations, we love celebrations and any excuse for a party! Riverside West is our ‘excuse’ for a party! Impact Cares has been impacting communities across the US and…

Rosewood MHP

There is a story told about a man moving into a new town. As he comes into town he stops at the local gas station to fill up. The owner comes out to service his car and…

Indian Trails

Stuart Hamblen has an old country song entitled, “This Ole House’ which in so many ways echoed our time in Indian Trails Estates!

Alves MHP

Stories, stories, and more stories. What else would one expect, after all, we are in Texas! With a new year and new beginnings in a number of ways, Alves proved to be a…

Valley View

Kearney, originally known as ‘Kearny Junction,’ often known as the ‘Midway City,’ is where Impact Cares was able to be for its last project of the year. Observant readers…

Breckenridge Estates

"See I told you God was listening to our prayers,” said the six-year-old to his mom after the family was gifted with a remodeled home! Funny how at times, the youngest among…

Hazleton

Hazleton, Iowa, a community with a long history of doing community together. Established in 1853 and named ‘Hazleton’ because the town was founded in a hazelnut grove, this…

Table Mound

Dubuque is truly a ‘Masterpiece on the Mississippi.’ This is the city’s slogan, and it fits! This is a great mid-west city which was a delight for the Impact Cares team to…

LaCoste Village Home Giveaway

What do tornadoes, a ‘good’ deal on a home, the loss of a spouse, an uninhabitable home, an indomitable human spirit, and a great organization have in common? Well, if you…

Hunters Run

“Boy, oh boy, oh boy’ said one soft-spoken resident after work was done on his home bringing some much-needed improvements! For him, that was a huge compliment to the team of…

Southington

‘Suthington,’ is the official pronunciation, at least according to the locals. What an amazing place. Settled in 1805, this beautiful rural community is going strong into…

Oak Grove

I love cactus! In some ways these are the easiest plants to take care of – forget to water them and they still live! Leave them out in the hot sun – they survive and even…

Simpsonville

What do you get when you put a talented guy, who loves his job, who is adored by the folks, who does taxes in the evenings and, by the way, is also ‘Borique,’ a professional…

Glascow Trails

Glascow Trails is an amazing place to live, just ask those who live there! During our time on the ground in this , there was much to be celebrated, in spite of the weather…

The Meadows at Carson Creek

The Meadows, located in Del Valle, Texas was our first community of a new year. It was a wonderful, nerve-wracking, amazing, challenging, emotional experience for all of us…

2022 End of Year

Impacting communities, caring for individuals, 2022 proved to be another banner year for Impact Cares! From the Republic of Texas to the great state of North Carolina, from…

Cherry Acres

Cherry Acres, the very name provokes a ‘Norman Rockwell’ type of scene. Its spring, the white cherry blossoms are out, the golden retriever bouncing through the orchards…

Westlake

A ‘Halloween’ project day! With those few words, one would expect it to have been a dark, dreary, scary type of day in this community. But no, just the opposite! We had…

Lamplighter Estates

Lamplighter: Def. ‘a person employed to light street gaslights by hand.’ This is obviously an old term from days gone by. Yet this person, by the very nature of their job,…

Missile Drive

Welcome to Cheyenne, Wyoming! Impact Cares came to the Missile Drive community in July to hopefully have a huge ‘impact’ on this historic place. Located close to the…

Cedar Mtn. Village

Coming in from the north, the landscape is arid, barren, and boring with very little to see. Craig is located in north central Colorado and was the next destination for…

Picture Ranch

28 homes, 70 improvements and countless lives touched. "Still giving," he said. "I see what you are doing. I see the help you are giving. I see how hard you are working."…

Hamlet

‘The Hub of the Seaboard,’ is what Hamlet was known for according to the manager of the local railroad museum. A place ‘in-between’ places you could say. This is a place…

Meadows Greenville

Greenville is an absolutely beautiful, historic and ‘green’ place to live! A few days we had enough rain we started to wonder if we should have ‘web’ feet! But when you…

Royle Court

With a ‘Realfeel’ of 97 degrees, Summerville’s weather gave a whole new meaning to the ‘Summer’ in the ‘ville!’ Despite the hot, muggy weather Impact Cares came to Royle…

Vineyards

Built near local ‘cliffs’, Clifton has been around for a long time. With the local Post Office was established around 1900, Clifton has grown and is made up of some great,…

Live Oak

‘He’s all hat and no cattle,’ is an old Texas proverb. Well, here in Lockhart, that is SO not true. These are folks with hats and cattle to boot! When these Texans show up,…

Oak Grove Estates

Imagine with me for just a moment. Imagine you found a community where you knew the people were great, the community had recently been impacted by a great organization, and…

La Coste Village

What do 15 Team Impact staff and 12 residents add up to? One fantastic day! It never ceases to amaze one how small things can add up to ‘ginormous’ benefits!

Central

Canon City, Colorado in November can be iffy weather wise but it turned out to be a great week! With mild weather and warm hearts, Central proved to be a beautiful place to…

Rustic Manor

Imagine living in a community where neighbors help each other, where people live life to the end trying to be an encouragement and help to one another. Welcome to Rustic…

Anderson MHC

Welcome to Anderson! The first of two communities in Anderson which Impact Cares had the privilege of joining with to encourage and bless and help as needed. We were able to…

Golden Age Village

‘Preserving our past, Improving our present, Protecting our Future.’ This is the motto for the city of Portland, a great motto for a central Indiana town! In so many ways,…

Ridgebrook Village & Valley Hills West

Ridgebrook is an enormous place loaded with great people! Impact Cares finally made it after a setback with a few sick team members but what a place it is. Impact Cares was…

Lake Superior Estates

From its extreme depths to its variety of orchids, from its enormous volume of fresh water to its great snowfalls, this is an amazing place to live. Imagine living at the…

Suburban MHP

This was a wet one! On project day, the deluge came and yet, in spite of the rain, we accomplished much. Knowing the weather was not going to cooperate, we were able to get…

Sunnyside MHC

A great community, great people and surely most of the time, great weather! This project traversed both ends of the spectrum, from welcoming people in the community to not…

Country Meadows Estates

“Impact Cares changed her life,” declared one resident, struggling with medical challenges and a dysfunctional family life. She went on to say that the improvement made to…

Cimarron Park

Cimarron Park is a great place and getting better by the day! When the Sheriff Deputy tells you the community is changing for the better, you know you’re on the right track! !

Blake's Mobile Home Ranch

Laramie, Wyoming, a place with a rich history a place where opportunities abound and a great place to live! Laramie, a place where women were first allowed to vote (1870) and…

Paradise Valley

Remember the old high school cheers? ‘Give me a ‘P’, Give me an ‘A’, Give me an ‘R’ and on it goes, until, ‘What’s that spell? ‘Paradise Valley!’ And that it is, not only…

Garfield Estates

Grand Junction, a place where two great rivers flow together, the Gunnison and the Colorado. Grand Junction, a place of great weather, stunning beauty and a place where…

Rose Park

The sky was blue, the weather warm, the view magnificent and Rose Park lived up to its name, a place of various ‘Roses’ and a place you would want to ‘park!’

Royal Oaks Estates

One time, in response to His disciples squabbling over ‘who’s the greatest,’ Jesus gives his disciples, and us, a short teaching. Mark records, “Calling them to Himself,…

Wichita

Pasadena, famous for the ‘Tournament of Roses’? Well, yes but not Pasadena, Texas. This Pasadena was famous for its strawberry blossoms and was actually named after Pasadena,…

Tranquility Village

“I know what I’m doing. I have it all planned out—plans to take care of you, not abandon you, plans to give you the future you hope for.” (Jer. 29:11, The Message). These…

Live Oak MHC

Everybody knows, in Texas, they do it 'BIG'! That, in a nutshell, is what you will experience if you were to live in Live Oaks community. This is what I would call a big…

Oak Grove Estates

It was a beautiful day in Oak Grove Estates, on January 16, 2021 with Impact Cares on ‘Project Day.’ Oak Grove is nestled in Kerrville, Texas, a beautiful community with a…

Pecan Village

Pecan happened so fast! Yes it did and so did Tecumseh itself! Born in one day, on September 23, 1891, approximately fifteen thousand individuals raced to claim their piece…

Shawnee Village

Shawnee, Oklahoma, an old town with a bright future! Shawnee’s first school was started in 1872 and its first Post Office started operations in 1876. Needless to say,…

Mobile Manor Estates

October 31, 2020, a day to remember! Instead of celebrating that which is dark, this was a day to celebrate what is right in our world! This was the day that Impact Cares…

Oak Lawn Estates

Stories matter! Every one of us has a story to tell. I remember my grandpa’s funeral from years ago. For hours, the family of which there were close to 100 of us down to…

Tuckaway Village

Tuckaway Village The month is November, the year, 1831. You’re headed west and come to the beautiful bluffs along the Illinois River. Fall is in the air, the leaves are…

Redwood MHP

Pontiac, Illinois, a place where historically, ‘Pontiac’s Wear Well’. So the saying went a long time ago in the 1800’s when Pontiac was well known for its shoe…

Franklin Woods

The Franklin Woods community located in Niles, MI is a community filled with a great diversity of folks! Niles has historically been known as the ‘City of Four Flags’ due…

Lakeview

Lakeview, a great community in a great place! Situated in Oshkosh, Wisconsin, home of the annual EAA AirVenture show, this community is teems with life and flies high! It was…

Edison Estates

The date was August 1, 1774. An English chemist named Joseph Priestley discovered what we now call ‘oxygen’. Did he really ‘discover’ it or just come to realize what was…

Table Mound MHP

It was a hot July summer when the Impact Cares Team came to Table Mound Community in Dubuque, Iowa but what a great time they had! Dubuque happens to be among one of the…

Gulf Breeze MHC

“Thank you, thank you, thank you,” said a resident suffering from cancer after the Impact Cares team with local volunteers replaced a floor, patched a roof and improved the…

Five Seasons

“Your age is more about your attitude than your years,” so said one ‘young’ resident of this fabulous place to live called ‘Five Seasons’ in Cedar Falls, Iowa. How true it…

Meadow Lane

Let’s visit a small town together! Come with me to a place where they changed the name way back in 1863, 157 years ago, because a federal post office was formally…

Indian Trails Estates

Harker Heights – ‘one of the best places to live in Texas’, so said one reviewer on google and our team, Tom and Donna spending time there during the Covid-19 pandemic would…

Sleepy Valley MHC

‘Oh beautiful for spacious skies, . . for purple mountain majesties, . .’ so wrote Katherine Bates in 1893 after a climb up Pikes Peak. From a visiting Professor of English…

Impact Cares & COVID-19

An important update from Impact Cares regarding COVID-19.

Making a difference

At 8 in the morning, on Saturday August 18th; 16 adults and 23 kids descended on Cherry Acres. People were broken down into crews to complete the project within the...

The Rainbow Bridge

A group of residents from a local mobile home community crossed over to each other and pitched in to help brighten the place up! Impact Cares, who work with mobile home…

Commerce City

Commerce City – ‘. . a safe, diverse and welcoming community with 25 miles of trails, . . 840 acres of open space and parks, . . one of the country’s largest soccer complexes…

Home Giveaway

Columbus, Ohio. Where to start? No matter where we start with this one, it only gets better! One needy resident received a ‘new’ home today! As one staff noted, ‘The home…