When the call went out in November for MDS volunteers to go to Princeton, B.C., James Toews seized the chance to serve. Toews, a member of the Mennonite Central Committee B.C. board, knew about MDS but had never done service with the organization...
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That was the buzz around the town of Princeton, B.C. in early December when the first 16 Mennonite Disaster Service (MDS) volunteers arrived to help residents hard-hit by flooding in mid-November. People in the town are “so exhausted,” said...
Just about a year ago, James Toews was lying flat on his back with a broken neck. The former pastor of the Neighbourhood Community Church in Nanaimo, B.C., a Mennonite Brethren congregation, was working on the roof of his garage when a support gave...
ABOVE: Walter Wiebe (r) walks with Princeton Baptist Church Kyle Nichols (l) along a muddy formerly flooded street in Princeton, B.C. Mennonite Disaster Service (MDS) Canada is calling for volunteers to help with cleaning out homes in Princeton, B...
Mennonite Disaster Service (MDS) B.C. is monitoring the situation in that province, where torrential rains have caused flooding and mudslides that have affected many communities and residents of that province. “There are three 7.6 centimetre/three-...
It was a bright, clear day as Chris Freur and his father, Ralph, watched bales of hay being loaded into a trailer on their farm in Smithville, Ont. The donated hay, all 50 bales of it, was destined for Saskatchewan through MDS Hay West, headed to the...
When volunteer fire chief Trent Roberts pulled up to the home of Diane and Reginald Rice in Triton, Newfoundland, on that mid-July day last summer, his heart sank. “The fire was pretty much out by then, the boys had attacked it hard,” said...
The U.S. border is opening! That is news Kelsey Friesen, Volunteer Manager for Mennonite Disaster Service (MDS) Canada, has waited a long time to hear. The border between the U.S. and Canada closed to non-essential travel in March 2020 due to the...
For Bradley and Virginia Walker, livestock farmers in Endeavour, Saskatchewan, this year’s weather was a disaster. “The rain was so patchy,” said Bradley. “Some places got good rain, we got nothing.” The lack of rain meant they couldn’t...
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