In the past, groups have done T-shirt sales or bake sales. Volunteers will be expected to participate in fundraising, attend an orientation meeting, be cooperative and open during the trip and attend a gathering upon return to exchange photos and process the experience. The Leland volunteers bring sleeping bags and stay at a church in the community. People from the local committee provide meals. In Tutwiler a new Habitat house is constructed each year.
Students stay in homes in the community but prepare their own meals at a community center.
At Lexington, the volunteers are given repair or needed clean up work by the local community organization, ROCC, which has a long local history. Volunteers stay in homes and meals are provided. The final evening in Mississippi the group reassembles for a catfish dinner. Arrangements are being made to visit students at Mississippi Valley State University. Other evenings the groups will have local activities.