Nye County volunteers build record 40 beds for children in need
Forty beds left a Woodchips Road barn after volunteers beat the heat for a 7:30 a.m. build, nearly erasing the chapter’s 46-child waiting list.
Nye County Sleep in Heavenly Peace turned a Saturday morning at a barn off Woodchips Road into its biggest local build yet, assembling 40 beds for children who need them. About 40 volunteers arrived early for a 7:30 a.m. start, sanding lumber under pop-up shade tents and drilling and fitting the pieces inside the barn to beat the heat.
The record haul mattered because the chapter had said 46 local children were still waiting for beds when it previewed the effort on May 20. With 40 beds completed on May 30, the build represented a major dent in that backlog, though the need was still real. Each frame is later fitted with a mattress, pillow and bedding before it is delivered directly to a child, the basic promise behind Sleep in Heavenly Peace’s work in Nye County.
The day relied on local support as much as labor. Sharon Tate and Mike Bennett donated the barn space, giving volunteers a place to work, stack materials and assemble the beds. Among those helping were Judge Kim Wanker, Michelle Caird, Carmen Murzyn and Marjorie Washington-Nears, part of a crew that came from different parts of the county to spend the morning building something many children still do without.
The 40-bed total also showed how quickly the local chapter has been scaling up its efforts. Its previous record came on Jan. 10, 2026, when volunteers built 34 beds, including 22 from Drug Court under Wanker’s encouragement. Before that, a May 16, 2025 community build produced 24 beds after leaders had aimed for 20. In just over a year, the chapter pushed its one-day output from 24 to 34 and then to 40.
That growth has helped the Nye County chapter deliver 492 beds to local children to date, but the numbers also show why the work remains urgent. Sleep in Heavenly Peace, founded in 2012 in Twin Falls, Idaho, has expanded to more than 380 chapters and more than 340,000 beds built collectively, yet the local mission in Pahrump and across Nye County stays simple: keep children off couches, air mattresses and floors, and into a bed of their own.
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