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Couple Enjoying “MDS Retirement Plan”

Retirees Susan and Peter Thiessen call it their “Mennonite Disaster Service retirement plan.” “Being retired and doing MDS is wonderful,” says Peter, 65, who is co-coordinator of the project in Grand Forks, B.C. with Susan, 64. “We get to...

MDS “Feeds My Soul”

“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...

Good to Make a Difference

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,...

MDS Road Trip!

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...

Hooked on MDS

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...

From Mexico to MDS

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...

Williams Lake Project Opens

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 ...

MDS experience leads to more volunteer work

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...

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