Maynard Brubacher just wanted to get to the dump before it closed. The Mennonite Disaster Service (MDS) crew leader had worked all day with other MDS volunteers, replacing a roof on a home in a rural community in Virginia, close to the border of...
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...
Dodie Lepp was 12 years old when a series of tornadoes touched down near her family’s home in Goshen, Indiana. It was her first experience with a disaster. “It was Palm Sunday, and I’ll never forget it,” she recalled. “It was just...
It’s been four long years since Christine Harper saw the 2020 CZU lightning fire take her 80-year-old home, plus her greenhouse and hay barn on the 20-acre organic farm she and her husband had created in the Santa Cruz mountains. Recently widowed,...
What’s Evelyn Peters-Rojas been up to? She retired in April 2021 after 15 years with Mennonite Disaster Service (MDS) Canada, mostly in the area of volunteer coordination, but she hasn’t retired from volunteering! She does miss the people,...
SALISBURY – Mennonite Disaster Service (MDS) and Lutheran Disaster Response (LDR) have announced “Bridging Together,” a partnership to build bridges in hurricane-ravaged western North Carolina so that people can come home and thrive in...
After devastating fires in Maui, Hawaii, there is hope—in the form of Ohana Hope Village. Mennonite Disaster Service (MDS) volunteers arrived on October 7, 2024, working to build what’s called “midlevel” housing for fire survivors. An...
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