Mennonite Disaster Service (MDS) Early Response Teams are working in southwest Florida, removing large trees, hauling away debris, and helping Hurricane Ian survivors make the first small steps on their path to recovery. Ian, which made...
As hurricanes go, Fiona wasn’t as bad as some when it hit Atlantic Canada—just lots of trees blown down into yards and shingles and siding blown off houses. Unless it was your tree, your yard or your roof and siding. Then it was a very big deal....
After his stroke, one of the things that made Abe Gotzke sad was not being able to volunteer with Mennonite Disaster Service (MDS) anymore. Or so he thought. Gotzke, 72, of Abbotsford, B.C. suffered the stroke in April. “We were driving up north to...
For the Baccalieu Trail Community Church in Bay Roberts, Newfoundland, support from the Spirit of Mennonite Disaster Service Canada (MDS) Fund means they can now serve seniors and low-income people in the community. “We have had a vision for some...
Anita Jacobsen knows she was lucky. When the White Rock Lake fire swept through Monte Lake, B.C. in July 2021, it spared the house she lives in with her husband, David Newcomb—one of the few in the rural community that wasn’t destroyed or damaged...
When the evacuation order came, Michelle Swanson thought to herself: “Wow—this is really happening!” Michelle, 21, who lives with her father, Ted, 60, in Arnold, didn’t expect the water to flood their home on that mid-November day in 2021....
College students working through Engineers in Action were among many Mennonite Disaster Service (MDS) volunteers who built driveway bridges in West Virginia and other communities. After reports of various flood events in many communities, here’s...
An inch-high miracle. That’s what ten-year-old Natalie Lehman noticed as she was digging holes to plant new trees in Grand Lake, Colorado in July: a tiny lodgepole pine growing on its own. For Lehman, it was a sign mother nature had brought...
“People are really thankful, they can’t imagine we are doing it for free.” That’s what Nick Hamm said about the tree cutting service being provided by Mennonite Disaster Service (MDS) Canada in Antigonish and Cape Breton, Nova Scotia, over...
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