There’s a house—and a lot of hope—going up at the local 4-H Hall in Wichita, Kansas. Groups of volunteers from Mennonite Disaster Service (MDS), in town for a special 75th anniversary celebration being held at the Ridgepoint Church, were...
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Hundreds of MDS volunteers have made a big difference in western North Carolina. As the early response phase drew to a close during the first week in December, long-term recovery from Hurricane Helene was just beginning. MDS volunteer Steve...
Two families are home for Christmas in West Virginia, thanks to Mennonite Disaster Service (MDS) volunteers. On Dec. 2, home dedications—one in Branchland and another in Maysel, officially opened the doors to new dwellings for flood survivors...
It took many hands and many hearts to build the Compassion House. The single family home, property of the Lancaster (Pa.) Brethren in Christ Church, is the fruitful result of a partnership between Mennonite Disaster Service (MDS), Mennonite Central...
MDS is monitoring the potential impact of Hurricane Milton which is expected to make landfall late Wednesday. Milton is expected to make landfall along the Western Coast of Florida. The storm rapidly grew from category 1 to category 5 with...
Mennonite Disaster Service (MDS) assessment teams and early response crews are on the ground in western North Carolina in the wake of Hurricane Helene, which made landfall on Sept. 27. Reporting from western North Carolina just outside of...
Harry Davis remembers the day water rushed over the road, like a dam breaking upstream from his house. It was July 10, 2023, and a devastating flood hit central Vermont. Davis sheltered in place as his cellar and the main floor of his house flooded....
A nineteenth century house stands two storeys high on the banks of the Winooski River. Numa Haase, the homeowner of nearly four decades, always wanted to live on a river. “[When] you go down to the river, you don’t hear the noise of the...
There’s a story behind this now-famous photo. Mennonite Disaster Service (MDS) volunteer Brent Trumbo, who was serving as a crew leader for two weeks in Barre, Vermont, decided to take the picture at the end of a long day mucking out a flooded...
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