A Mennonite Disaster Service (MDS) work site is often a beehive of activity. You wouldn’t normally think of it as a place to practice contemplation. But that’s not how it was viewed by John and Kim Alexis. The couple are part of Imago Dei Church...
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They call themselves the “three amigas”—Spanish for “friends.” The three—Betty Ramones, 31, Lindsay Hofer, 20 and Shannon Lang, 27—are longer-term Mennonite Disaster Service (MDS) Canada volunteers in Monte Lake, B.C. All three are in...
For Sam Perera of Princeton, B.C., it was a case of really bad timing. Perera, originally from Vancouver, bought a riverside house in that southeastern B.C. town in October 2021—a place he could afford in a community he intended to call his new...
For Cornelius Beveridge, a cattle producer in Maple Creek, Saskatchewan, hay provided by the Mennonite Disaster Service (MDS) Canada Hay West project arrived at just the right time. “It got us through the cold spell around Christmas,” he said of...
Meals and blankets for homeless people, helping low-income kids go to camp, support for refugees—these are some of the ways the Mennonite Disaster Service Canada Spirit of MDS Fund helped Canadian congregations and organizations serve their...
For some youth at The Meeting Place, a Mennonite Brethren church in Winnipeg, 2020 was going to be a big year—they were going to do a spring overseas service trip. But then the pandemic hit. “We had done a lot of fundraising and planning, but...
It was a winter storm that led Roger Friesen of Winnipeg to start writing poetry—and then to creatively reframe the Psalms as a fundraiser for Mennonite Disaster Service (MDS) Canada. Friesen, 69, was on his way to Minot, North Dakota in 2013 from...
Three grants worth $400,000 CAD/$313,160 USD will enable Mennonite Disaster Service (MDS) Canada to help homeowners affected by last November’s floods in B.C. A grant of $210,000 CAD/$164,400 USD was given by Fraserway RV in Abbotsford, B.C.,...
“No preaching!” That’s the first thing Danie Brooks told Mennonite Disaster Service (MDS) volunteer James Toews when he showed up at his home outside Princeton, B.C. one morning to begin work. “I wanted to be honest with him right away, this...
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