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...
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After living for nearly a year in a small trailer with no running water or electricity, Lisa and Gary England finally opened the door to a new home. They need a safe place to rest. Lisa has just started dialysis, and Gary recently had heart...
College students working through Engineers in Action were among many Mennonite Disaster Service (MDS) volunteers who built driveway bridges in West Virginia and other communities. After reports of various flood events in many communities, here’s...
West Virginia. Texas. California. Twenty-four-year-old Cody Hurst really gets around as a Mennonite Disaster Service (MDS) volunteer! He began serving with MDS back in 2016, when he helped build a driveway bridge in West Virginia. Now he’s...
Growing up in a farm family, Randy Short spent a week serving with Mennonite Disaster Service (MDS) in Kentucky after his senior year of high school. After that, he served with MDS each winter for three or four months. “After we were married, it...
It’s summertime in Philippi, West Virginia, and cars are driving over a beautiful new bridge, some of them with canoes on top, others with mountain bikes racked on the back. Hikers can pass across safely, too, because the wide, sturdy bridge has...
Dennis Vance, a farmer and pastor, loves his community of Lizemore, West Virginia. He joyfully shared that love with college students who built a new driveway bridge in July, giving him safer access to his home. “Lizemore is the only place with...
Photo by Joanne Murray. * By Joanne Murray “Our roof was blown off as we huddled in the corner of our porch from six in the morning until nine at night. Nothing like this had ever happened to us before.” That’s how Shirley Kent vividly...
Two 1,000-square-foot modular homes built over the winter by volunteers in Strasburg, Ohio were dedicated on March 20 in West Virginia by Mennonite Disaster Service (MDS) and Disaster Aid Ohio. The homes were built by volunteers working in small...
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