About Us

Harvey "Granddad" Yoder and his sons wanted to serve their community by establishing a place where troubled boys could be nurtured. So in 1979, the Yoder family moved to Fair Play, SC and purchased eighty acres to build a boys camp.

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The camp began enrolling applicants and by 1981 had become a functioning organization. Once established, the Yoders began to explore various avenues to support the camp and their families. Granddad owned a building supply store in Virginia prior to moving to South Carolina, along with a small pizza shop attached to that store. The Yoder's decided pizza was to be their source of income and commenced renovations on a small shop in Anderson, SC.

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However, their direction changed abruptly when the Yoders responded to an advertisement for a pizza oven. Upon discovering the Yoder's background in building supplies, the gentleman selling the pizza oven suggested they open a building supply in Fair Play instead. Granddad's son, Floyd, began the research and discovered that builders in the Fair Play area had to drive 20 minutes or more for supplies! Equipped with his experience in the building industry, Floyd soon began to lay the groundwork for Yoder's Building Services.

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In 1986, the Yoder's purchased nine acres at the current location and opened the doors with 4 employees and 1 delivery truck. Their original intentions were for the boys from the camp to help out at the store. But since 40 campers were quickly outgrowing the eighty-acre camp, they were forced to relocate the camp in 1989 to a five hundred acre location in Westminster, SC making it impossible for the campers to help at the store. Granddad was involved with the store, yet his