For Red Lake Tribal Council member Eugene Standing Cloud, watching MDS volunteers at work is like watching a group of people “on autopilot.” “We are so thankful to MDS for being here,” he said of how the organization has come to repair houses...
“They’re doing a great job!” That’s what Edith Carr, Office Manager with the MDS response in Red Lake, MN, said of the 11 Goshen College students who spent two weeks in May helping convert an old grocery store into a base camp for the...
Since March, 76 people from across Canada have served with Mennonite Disaster Service (MDS) in Cape Breton. Here are reflections from a few of them. More volunteers are needed this summer; see bottom of article. Peter Hildebrand of Leamington...
“It felt like the roof was going to come right off.” That’s how Tara Babcock described the night Hurricane Fiona struck her home in Sydney, Cape Breton. As it was, the storm—which hit September 24, last year—tore shingles off the roof and...
Mennonite Disaster Service (MDS) Canada is monitoring the wildfire situation in northern Alberta, where 78 fires are burning—24 of them out of control. “It’s too early to know what, if anything, we might be called on to do,” said Ross Penner...
Judy Schmidt likes to cook—even for 20 or more people at a time. That’s what the 66-year-old retired banker was doing in March, where she served as head cook for a month with Mennonite Disaster Service (MDS) in Jennings, Lousiana. For Schmidt,...
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...
Eastern Kentucky is a unique place. Families are closely knit for generations. Many have never left Kentucky…or if they did, only for a brief visit. Kentucky is home! Even real estate is familial, passed down from generation to generation. ...
Crooked roads, crooked walls, crooked ceilings, too—as they worked with Mennonite Disaster Service (MDS) installing drywall in a home in Breathitt County, Kentucky, Carol and Richard Bergman of Grunthal, Man. realized nothing was quite straight...
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