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...
All was quiet on September 6 at 9 a.m. as Mennonite Disaster Service (MDS) volunteers in Monte Lake, B.C. put down their tools and paused for a moment of silence. They were doing it in memory of Evelyn Greenwood, a long-time volunteer with MDS, who...
Mennonite Disaster Service continues to monitor Hurricane Ian. This storm left a path of destruction as it crossed Florida. High winds, heavy rain and flooding and storm surge damaged many structures. The storm is moving up the Atlantic Coast and is...
MDS Canada has begun clean-up work in Antigonish, Nova Scotia; click here to learn more. Mennonite Disaster Service (MDS) Canada is accepting donations for Hurricane Fiona response in Atlantic Canada. The most powerful tropical storm recorded in...
“What brought us together was a disaster, a loss, a trauma, something we can never forget.” With those words, Mark Rempel of the Mennonite Disaster Service (MDS) B.C. Unit began the first of four home dedications on September 10 at the home of...
A new warehouse in Kingsburg, California, will help MDS streamline its flow of equipment and tools for volunteers. A groundbreaking ceremony on Sept. 14 kicked off construction of the 7,200-foot warehouse, which will be complete by spring of 2023...
“We wanted to give our children the experience of serving others.” That’s the reason Peter and Susan Neudorf of Warman, Saskatchewan gave for signing up for the Mennonite Disaster Service (MDS) family project in Princeton B.C. in August....
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