Employment

Application Process

To apply for a job based in the United States please send your cover letter and resume to jobs@mds.org or mail them to:

Mennonite Disaster Service
Attn: Human Resources
583 Airport Road
Lititz, PA 17543

To apply for a job based in Canada please send your cover letter and resume to jobsca@mds.org or mail them to:

Mennonite Disaster Service
200-600 Shaftesbury Blvd.
Winnipeg, MB R3P 2J1

About Us

Mennonite Disaster Service is the organized response of our churches to the needs of neighbors in time of disaster. We endeavor, in the spirit of Christian love, to follow Christ’s example by giving time, talents, and energies to help relieve suffering caused by disasters. We understand the ministries of listening, cleanup, repair, reconstruction to be examples of “the cup of cold water” given to those in need “in the name of Christ.”

For over seventy years Mennonite Disaster Service has endeavored to bring relief to those who survived disasters through responding in Christian love, rebuilding damaged structures, and restoring communities and families to their homes. By doing these acts of service, we hope to model Christ and bring hope, love and wholeness to those who benefit from, participate in, or view our work.

Shared Convictions

As a potential MDS employee, we will look for how you can help MDS achieve its vision and mission and transform lives in Canada and in the United States. Staff must be comfortable affirming our faith based approach expressed in these Shared Convictions of the Mennonite World Conference.

1. God is known to us as Father, Son and Holy Spirit, the Creator who seeks to restore fallen humanity by calling a people to be faithful in fellowship, worship, service and witness.
2. Jesus is the Son of God. Through his life and teachings, his cross and resurrection, he showed us how to be faithful disciples, redeemed the world, and offers eternal life.
3. As a church, we are a community of those whom God´s Spirit calls to turn from sin, acknowledge Jesus Christ as Lord, receive baptism upon confession of faith, and follow Christ in life.
4. As a faith community, we accept the Bible as our authority for faith and life, interpreting it together under Holy Spirit guidance, in the light of Jesus Christ to discern God´s will for our obedience.
5. The Spirit of Jesus empowers us to trust God in all areas of life so we become peacemakers who renounce violence, love our enemies, seek justice, and share our possessions with those in need.
6. We gather regularly to worship, to celebrate the Lord´s Supper, and to hear the Word of God in a spirit of mutual accountability.
7. As a world-wide community of faith and life we transcend boundaries of nationality, race, class, gender and language. We seek to live in the world without conforming to the powers of evil, witnessing to God’s grace by serving others, caring for creation, and inviting all people to know Jesus Christ as Saviour and Lord.

In these convictions we draw inspiration from Anabaptist forebears of the 16th century, who modeled radical discipleship to Jesus Christ. We seek to walk in his name by the power of the Holy Spirit, as we confidently await Christ´s return and the final fulfillment of God´s kingdom.