“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...
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After assessing needs in many communities in the wake of spring tornadoes, Mennonite Disaster Service (MDS) will focus on long-term response in the midwest and south. Though MDS is not deploying Early Response Teams to the tornado-damaged areas,...
Mennonite Disaster Service (MDS), Christian Aid Ministries, Longhorn Truss. For Chris Troyer, they’re all connected within his framework of faith-driven service and business. As co-owners of Longhorn Truss—based in Lott, Texas—Troyer and...
More than 1,000 Mennonite Disaster Service (MDS) volunteers, donors and partners traveled from across the U.S. and Canada for an Annual Celebration on Feb. 10-11, held at The Worship Center in Lancaster, Pa. Exploring the theme “The Joy of Serving...
Mennonite Disaster Service (MDS) in Texas has a new sense of unity: after previously being split into a few separate units, the statewide structure provides better communication across and between MDS responses. Immediate past chair Wayne...
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...
West Virginia. Texas. California. Twenty-four-year-old Cody Hurst really gets around as a Mennonite Disaster Service (MDS) volunteer! He began serving with MDS back in 2016, when he helped build a driveway bridge in West Virginia. Now he’s...
“She’s pretty amazing!” That’s how Valetta Seymour described her sister, Wanda Knight, as the two women volunteered together for Mennonite Disaster Service (MDS) in the Rio Grand Valley in February. Even though both sisters live in...
Ms. Maura couldn’t see who was working on her new home in Hargill, Texas—but she could hear the sounds of hope. With fading vision caused by diabetes, she took her husband’s arm as they stood in front of their home, simply smiling together...
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