Dorcas Community Services Center serves the Baker City community by providing clothing, household goods and other basic necessities to families in need. As the ministry has grown, space has become increasingly limited, and leaders have been praying for ways to better handle donations, especially during the winter months when snow and rain make drop-offs difficult.
In 2025, DSCS worked to obtain a larger building, but the efforts were ultimately unsuccessful. Eventually, a simpler solution was considered. They decided to install a drop-off box at the foot of the DCSC stairs so donations would not get wet or covered with snow during the winter and rainy seasons. It seemed like a much smaller request than a new building, but God had something bigger in mind.
Juan Pardo, DCSC director, spoke with a few men in the community about building or obtaining a donation drop box. One of the men, Jerry Wycoff, works with members of the local Amish community.
During the conversation, Wycoff remembered that a few months earlier, a strong windstorm had overturned one of their new storage barns, leaving it sitting on its roof. Because they were unsure if it could be safely flipped back over and transported, the owners did not know what to do with it.
Wycoff contacted the man in charge of the storage building sales and explained DSCS's need. The man said they had already tried to give the storage barn away to two others, but no one had come to pick it up. He told Wycoff that if DSCS could prepare the building to be flipped and hauled, they could have it.
Wycoff then contacted Pardo and two other men from the local church, Henry Schaffner and Warren White. The next day, they reinforced the structure with cross-beams and two-by-fours. The barn successfully withstood being flipped back onto its base and was ready to be moved.
On Feb. 13, 2026, the barn was delivered on a large trailer. DSCS members were so focused on lining it up with the existing building and fence that they didn’t think to look up. As the building began sliding off the trailer, Schaffner suddenly noticed electric lines hanging only about one foot above the roof. Praise the Lord, the building slid off perfectly without touching the lines.
Then came another reminder of God’s timing. On Feb. 22, 2026, Baker Country Store — where the storage barn building was previously located — sadly burned to the ground. If the building had not been moved when it was, it likely would've been destroyed.
DSCS praises God for this amazing answer to prayer and His perfect timing.
Henry Schaffner, church member, and James Farber, pastor, help unload the shed.
