Nye County volunteers sought for May 30 community bed build

Nye County families still have 46 children waiting for a bed of their own, even after Sleep in Heavenly Peace has delivered 492 beds across the county. The next Community Bed Build on May 30 in Pahrump is aimed at turning raw lumber into finished beds for children who are still sleeping on floors or sharing with siblings.

Chapter president Carmen Murzyn is urging residents to show up and help build, and to donate bedding and pillows for the children who will receive the beds. The chapter says volunteers are essential to keeping the work moving at full force, because each build depends on people willing to measure, cut, sand, assemble and prepare the beds for delivery.

The need is local and immediate. For a child, a bed can mean a safer place to sleep and a more stable nightly routine. For families already balancing rent, utilities and other household costs, it can remove one more stressor from the night. In a place like Pahrump, where housing pressure and household instability can ripple through daily life, a bed build is less about charity optics than about meeting a basic need that remains unmet for dozens of children.

Sleep in Heavenly Peace was founded in 2012 in Twin Falls, Idaho, and has grown into a network of more than 380 chapters. In Nye County, the work has become a recurring volunteer effort rather than a one-time event. The chapter planned to build 20 beds at a spring Community Bed Build in 2025, then set a new record during a Winter Bed Build in Pahrump on Jan. 10, 2026, when 31 volunteers built 34 beds in a single day.

That kind of turnout has helped the local chapter expand its reach, but the waiting list shows the need has not disappeared. In 2024, the chapter asked the community to help build another 30 bed frames during Bunks Across America, and a fundraiser by Wulfenstein Construction and the PRS Holdings Foundation brought in $5,000 for the effort.

The May 30 build gives Nye County residents another chance to see the work firsthand and help close the gap between the beds already delivered and the children still waiting.