When the bridge across the Sumas drainage canal was washed away, Al and Dorothy Balzer knew they were in trouble. The older couple, who live on property beside the canal in B.C.’s Fraser Valley, had watched the water rise in mid-November 2021...
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Mennonite Disaster Service (MDS) Canada began clean-up work in Antigonish, Nova Scotia on September 30 in response to Hurricane Fiona. That’s when volunteers from the Bethel Mennonite Church in Waterville, Nova Scotia, about a three-and-a-half hour...
All was quiet on September 6 at 9 a.m. as Mennonite Disaster Service (MDS) volunteers in Monte Lake, B.C. put down their tools and paused for a moment of silence. They were doing it in memory of Evelyn Greenwood, a long-time volunteer with MDS, who...
MDS Canada has begun clean-up work in Antigonish, Nova Scotia; click here to learn more. Mennonite Disaster Service (MDS) Canada is accepting donations for Hurricane Fiona response in Atlantic Canada. The most powerful tropical storm recorded in...
“What brought us together was a disaster, a loss, a trauma, something we can never forget.” With those words, Mark Rempel of the Mennonite Disaster Service (MDS) B.C. Unit began the first of four home dedications on September 10 at the home of...
“We wanted to give our children the experience of serving others.” That’s the reason Peter and Susan Neudorf of Warman, Saskatchewan gave for signing up for the Mennonite Disaster Service (MDS) family project in Princeton B.C. in August....
“It’s interesting how we always ended up with the right people for the job at hand.” That’s what Philip Wiebe said about the Mennonite Disaster Service (MDS) family project in Princeton, B.C. this summer. Wiebe, who directed the project with...
After serving with Mennonite Disaster Service (MDS) in Monte Lake, B.C., Sofia Epp won’t see news about fires or floods the same way. “Hearing stories from the homeowners personalizes it,” she said. “It’s been an eye-opening experience.”...
Clarence Kruschel knows exactly what wildfire survivors in Monte Lake, B.C. are going through. It was 19 years ago when Kruschel, 74, lost his own home to the Okanagan Mountain Park firestorm, which destroyed 239 houses in Kelowna, B.C. Kruschel,...
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