They drove 27 hours straight to clear downed trees, spruce up living quarters, refurbish a volleyball court, and much more at Camp Palisades, tucked in the beautiful Targhee National Forest in Idaho. In the process, young people from the United...
Things are going well for the Cape Breton project, with repairs completed or soon to be finished for 26 homes. Ten of those homes have had major roofs repairs. On three of these homes. we raised the 1/12 roof pitch to 4/12 by using scissor trusses to...
“Everyone is excited—there’s a buzz in the air.” That’s what Dana Feltmate, the Minister at Sydney River Protestant United Church in Sydney, Nova Scotia said about hosting the Mennonite Disaster Service (MDS) response to Hurricane Fiona...
From May 7-13, Ruth Bergen Braun, who does communications for Mennonite Church Alberta, was in Cape Breton working on houses with MDS. She took some photos while she was there. An MDS van in front of house being repaired in Glace Bay. ...
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...
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