“You’d make a great MDSer.” That’s what a long-time Mennonite Disaster Service (MDS) volunteer told Robert Prinse, a self-employed carpenter from Chilliwack, B.C. That was in 2001. It took Prinse, 56, until 2014 to follow through on the...
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Brian Marten of Pincher Creek, Alberta, wasn’t planning on doing service in Grand Forks, B.C. with Mennonite Disaster Service (MDS). But his friend Jim Dyck was going, and he invited him to come along. So he did. “Jim suggested I should come,...
What do you get when you put four retired in teachers in a pick-up truck and head out to do service with Mennonite Disaster Service (MDS)? A road trip! That’s what Peter Bartel, 81, Frank Reimer, 79, Ernie Ewert, 70, and Peter Andres, 74, did in...
Roman Heuft went to Williams Lake, B.C. last year to serve for just a week with Mennonite Disaster Service (MDS)—it was a way to use his career skills in construction management to help people whose houses were destroyed by wildfires. Then he got...
People who serve with Mennonite Disaster Service (MDS) come from all over North America—and that includes Mexico, too. That’s where Dietrich Reimer, 25, and Rosa Quintana, 26 are from. The couple, members of the Blumenau Mennonite Church in...
Click here to read the update. Mennonite Disaster Service’s Ontario Unit returns to aid in the flooding relief in and around the Constance Bay, Ottawa area. Click here to read the article...
Winnipeg, Man. — Mennonite Disaster Service Canada has opened a spring and summer project building three new homes in the Williams Lake region of British Columbia. The response follows devastating fires in July 2017 that forced 40,000 ...
Pine Ridge, S.D. – Sometimes a week of volunteer work with Mennonite Disaster Service (MDS) is a stepping stone to another service project in another place and time. Recent college graduate Chris Guntz has been building on his service...
On September 29, thousands of basements were flooded in the Windsor-Essex area after 200 mm of rain fell in a 24 hour period. Many homeowners had no flood insurance or very limited coverage. Samaritans Purse Canada (SPC) coordinated the initial...
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