Mennonite Disaster Service (MDS) Church Contact People, or CCPs, have a special role in both informing and inspiring people in their church. From sharing helpful news in the wake of a disaster, to organizing groups who want to volunteer for an MDS ...
Volunteers from the Abbeydale Christian Fellowship in Calgary, Alberta who helped pack and distribute food purchased with help from the second round of the Spirit of MDS Fund. After a successful first two rounds of funding, Mennonite Disaster Service...
“Amazing!” That’s how Westbank Bible Camp Director Jeff Penner describes the service of the MDS volunteers. “They showed up with a servant attitude and posture, always asking what they could do for us, how they could serve us,” he said. “...
First time in the city? Yes. Where you from? The Prairies. Want to share your first impressions? Sure, why not. Good, I’m listening. Well, for starters there are lots of taxis on the streets, mostly yellow, over 10,000 of them I&#...
As power continues to come back in Louisiana, many residents are returning to survey severe flood damage from Hurricane Ida. Many other states are also reeling from deadly tornadoes and flooding unleashed by Ida’s remnants as the storm cut a wide...
Cliff and Lydia Trudeau’s home looks out across Cuisson Lake, B.C. and up onto a mountain of rock that has come out of the Gibraltar copper mine. It was a peaceful setting—until an unexpected fire destroyed their home this spring. MDS B.C....
When Bonnie Lapointe saw the damage caused by the severe windstorm that struck her Ontario home on September 7, she cried. “I had never seen anything like that,” she said of all the felled trees that littered her small acreage near Kingsbridge...
Nine years ago, farmers in Saskatchewan sent hay to drought-stricken livestock producers in Ontario through Mennonite Disaster Service (MDS) Canada. Now farmers in Ontario are preparing to repay their generosity the same way. “Farmers in...
“A derelict house has become a home.” That’s what Dan Driedger, Executive Director of MennoHomes in Waterloo Region, Ont., said about how volunteers from Mennonite Disaster Service Ontario made it possible for a Syrian refugee family of five...
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