MDS Rocky Mountain Unit volunteers respond to Colorado Wildfires The MDS Rocky Mountain Unit, which serves Colorado and New Mexico communities, has been working to find ways to engage local young people in short term projects (though they also...
Gil Michel, pastor of That Church Downtown, drove by the pair of South Bend, Indiana, buildings every day. He watched them slowly decompose, no longer the thriving Deliverance Center Hall and Ministry House of Pastor Bob Bassler. Grass nearly buried...
When Hurricane Helene sent a tree crashing through his house in Spartanburg, South Carolina, Johnny thought his family home was ruined forever. The storm struck in September 2024, and he moved to Maryland, at least temporarily, while he sorted...
Beds donated by Sleep in Heavenly Peace Before a family even walked through the door of their newly built home in Conroe, Texas, the kids had already been welcomed. Sleep in Heavenly Peace, a nonprofit that constructs beds for children, donated beds...
From building new homes to knitting prayer shawls for the homeowners, Mennonite Disaster Service (MDS) volunteers made a big difference in the small Louisiana town of Ironton. The unincorporated African American town in Plaquemines Parish was deeply...
On June 7, 2026, heavy rainfall (180 millimetres) across western Manitoba caused significant flooding throughout the Swan Valley region, affecting rural areas as well as the towns of Swan River and Minitonas. Rising water overwhelmed drainage systems...
A group of men were ripping open the roof of Jasmine’s house. The windows were all broken. One guy was tearing plywood off of the wall. Jasmine sat on the edge of the wooden sidewalk and smiled at me, though there were tears in her eyes. “It’s...
MDS’s website currently lists an opportunity for volunteers from across the US to serve in the town of Spencer, Iowa (though to be fair, all available date ranges listed between Jun 28 and August 29th are “FULL”). In June 2024, The Little...
Of all the things lost in the 2025 wildfire that destroyed their home in Denare Beach, Saskatchewan, it was losing her sacred bundle that hurt Carmell Monias the most. For the Indigenous woman, the bundle contained some of her most special...
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