When Aysia Adkins, a rising senior at Goshen College, found herself on a Mennonite Disaster Service (MDS) site, it changed her life. She traveled with other students from the college to Selma, Alabama, where the group not only helped rebuild...
As needs grow in the wake of deadly flooding in Texas, Mennonite Disaster Service (MDS) volunteers are on the ground, continuing to clear debris, removed damaged trees, assess damages, and pray with communities. As of July 14, MDS was focusing...
During a seminar on July 9 at “Follow Jesus 25,” the Mennonite Church USA convention in Greensboro, North Carolina, leaders from Mennonite Disaster Service (MDS) explained how to find a “holy space” in disaster response work—a mission...
Florence Walde and Sheryl Giudici have cooked together for the past 20 years. They met at church, through mutual friends, about 35 years ago and have found themselves running church kitchens, soup kitchens and MDS kitchens together over the past two...
Severe flooding struck central Texas beginning on July 4, as torrential rains from a stalled storm system caused rivers, especially the Guadalupe, to rise rapidly and overflow. Communities across the Hill Country have suffered devastating losses,...
In 2017, schools of redhorse suckers streamed through a culvert into Jeanne Gauthier and Steve MacKenzie’s flooded yard. They were so plentiful that an organized response was needed to return the fish to the Ottawa River. That was the first time...
Fifty-eight young people with the Mennonite Children’s Choir of Lancaster embarked on a musical tour from June 11-15, bringing the gift of music and hope to areas affected by Hurricane Helene in September 2024. Carrie Warner, music program...
Mennonite Disaster Service (MDS) has partnered to service a Canadian Red Cross reception centre for wildfire evacuees in Winnipeg, Manitoba. Since last Friday, MDS volunteers have welcomed evacuees to the centre, at 770 Leila Avenue, round-the-clock...
Chris Cooper’s boot prints pressed into the concrete porch. At first you don’t see the boot prints gently pressed into the concrete porch in front of the 1904-era home in Port Royal, Pennsylvania. But they tell the story of a place that...
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