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...
Asleep on the second floor of their house in Arnold, B.C. Rebecca and Tom Johnstone didn’t know the flood had arrived. “We didn’t hear the siren,” said Johnstone, 55. “A neighbour came to the door and told us to get out.” Johnstone...
Volunteers are needed immediately to assist with clean-up efforts near Sydney, Nova Scotia after Hurricane Fiona. “The needs are great,” said Ross Penner, Director of Canadian Operations for Mennonite Disaster Service (MDS) Canada. “So many...
Mennonite Disaster Service (MDS) is busy on the ground in hurricane-damaged Florida this week, doing assessment work necessary to deploy Early Response Teams as well as volunteers to help over the long term. While such planning might not seem...
When the bridge across the Sumas drainage canal was washed away, Al and Dorothy Balzer knew they were in trouble. The older couple, who live on property beside the canal in B.C.’s Fraser Valley, had watched the water rise in mid-November 2021...
Mennonite Disaster Service (MDS) Canada began clean-up work in Antigonish, Nova Scotia on September 30 in response to Hurricane Fiona. That’s when volunteers from the Bethel Mennonite Church in Waterville, Nova Scotia, about a three-and-a-half hour...
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