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...
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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...
Volunteers from the Abbeydale Christian Fellowship in Calgary, Alberta who helped pack and distribute food purchased with help from the second round of the Spirit of MDS Fund. After a successful first two rounds of funding, Mennonite Disaster Service...
“Amazing!” That’s how Westbank Bible Camp Director Jeff Penner describes the service of the MDS volunteers. “They showed up with a servant attitude and posture, always asking what they could do for us, how they could serve us,” he said. “...
Cliff and Lydia Trudeau’s home looks out across Cuisson Lake, B.C. and up onto a mountain of rock that has come out of the Gibraltar copper mine. It was a peaceful setting—until an unexpected fire destroyed their home this spring. MDS B.C....
When Bonnie Lapointe saw the damage caused by the severe windstorm that struck her Ontario home on September 7, she cried. “I had never seen anything like that,” she said of all the felled trees that littered her small acreage near Kingsbridge...
Nine years ago, farmers in Saskatchewan sent hay to drought-stricken livestock producers in Ontario through Mennonite Disaster Service (MDS) Canada. Now farmers in Ontario are preparing to repay their generosity the same way. “Farmers in...
“A derelict house has become a home.” That’s what Dan Driedger, Executive Director of MennoHomes in Waterloo Region, Ont., said about how volunteers from Mennonite Disaster Service Ontario made it possible for a Syrian refugee family of five...
As wildfires continue to burn in California, Mennonite Disaster Service (MDS) is reaching out in prayer for the thousands of people who have been forced to evacuate, and thousands more who see the telltale smoke clouds on the horizon and wonder if...
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