You will be matched with a specific MDS project to pray for volunteers, homeowners, and community partners.

• Would you like to connect with a certain project location? Or do you know some of the volunteers who will serve on a project?
• Staff will connect you to project leadership so that you can support them with  specific prayers for volunteer skills, homeowners, concerns within the community, etc.
• You are encouraged to read the weekly reports on the website and pray for: the volunteers currently serving, volunteers who have been there, homeowners, local community, and staff that regularly support the project.
• Suggested ways to connect to the project: phone call, Zoom call, notes of encouragement/scripture, sending a devotional, sending notes directly to the project for homeowners, individual notes to the leadership volunteers, etc. Other creative ways to connect are welcome!

Donations to support the ongoing work of MDS volunteers are appreciated. One-time and monthly donations help position MDS to respond, rebuild and restore in the wake of disaster. MDS can be named as a beneficiary in planned gifts like estates, wills, and trusts, and donors can support underfunded and underreported disasters through the MDS Legacy Fund.

Share your experiences with friends, your church, and/or other local churches. MDS is continually in need of leadership and weekly volunteers. You are our best recruiters, because you can share your experiences of helping homeowners get back in their homes. MDS can send you resources, literature, videos, and more for an event.

MDS is organized in five geographic regions. Each of the regions are organized into units which relate to their region and organize and respond to local disasters. Volunteers are needed to serve on Unit and Region committees, boards, and local disaster responses.

If you are interested in getting involved in this please contact our office 1-717-735-3536.

The Cabinet Shop is located in Goessel, Kansas and is run by Region 3 volunteers. Volunteers serve from 9 a.m. to 3 p.m. Tuesday–Thursday every week. Work includes various aspects of cabinet building/finishing and packaging for shipment. Volunteers from other states will need to find their own lodging when volunteering here.

Contact Cleo Koop Project Director, cleohkoop@gmail.com or 316-282-0797 for more information.

MDS can arrange for a new Leadership Volunteer to be paired up with an experienced Leadership Volunteer who serves as a mentor. New Leadership Volunteers can approach their mentors, seeking tips and advice about project leadership. As a mentor you can pass on your wealth of on-the-ground experience as an additional resource to new volunteers. You will need to have served as an MDS Leadership Volunteer, be available for occasional phone or email correspondence, be encouraging, have a teaching spirit, and effective interpersonal skills.

Trainings are located in Lititz, PA and across the U.S. and Canada. Homemade meals are always appreciated at our trainings. The schedule for training events is listed here.