New homes are blooming like early spring flowers in the hollers of Hurley, Virginia. Built by MDS volunteers, one is already complete, with six others on the way to completion. A new home on dedication day, progress picture shown above. In fact...
View the video recording here In a keynote speech at the Mennonite Disaster Service Annual Celebration, Marcus T. Coleman, Jr., director of the Department of Homeland Security Center for Faith-Based and Neighborhood Partnerships, spoke about what it...
I thank God for the opportunities I’ve had to serve with Mennonite Disaster Service (MDS), most recently last October in Monte Lake, B.C. What I experienced there is hard to put into words, but I will try. At that project, I had the privilege of...
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...
John Zuck knows something about transformation. After he and his wife, Connie, had less than two minutes to leave their home in northern Pennsylvania during a flash flood in August 2021, they came back to find the water had all but washed out the...
By John Sawatzky When Mennonite Disaster Service (MDS) begins a response, we always understand that the homeowners may want to talk about their trauma. That’s what happened in Monte Lake, B.C. in 2022 when MDS responded to the White Rock Lake fire...
Eastern Kentucky is no stranger to floods. I used to live there and survived some myself. So what happened in July of 2022 that made it so much worse than anyone had ever experienced? Several things: The water rose at night. The water rose fast...
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...
Standing in the kitchen in her new home built by MDS volunteers, Sheila Hickman is planning some major Christmas baking. “I will celebrate Christmas in my house, and I’ve always cooked,” she said. “There’s some things they just want Mom to...
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