For Sam Perera of Princeton, B.C., it was a case of really bad timing. Perera, originally from Vancouver, bought a riverside house in that southeastern B.C. town in October 2021—a place he could afford in a community he intended to call his new...
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...
For Cornelius Beveridge, a cattle producer in Maple Creek, Saskatchewan, hay provided by the Mennonite Disaster Service (MDS) Canada Hay West project arrived at just the right time. “It got us through the cold spell around Christmas,” he said of...
“Welllllllll….” What’s that sound? That’s Jerry Grosh answering a question. During his 16 years as field operations manager for Mennonite Disaster Service (MDS), that’s how he often began what his colleagues good-naturedly called...
Meals and blankets for homeless people, helping low-income kids go to camp, support for refugees—these are some of the ways the Mennonite Disaster Service Canada Spirit of MDS Fund helped Canadian congregations and organizations serve their...
How would I describe my visit to Jennings, Louisiana? In a word, enlightening. First, the generosity of the Jennings Church of Christ was amazing. When MDS was first looking for a site to set up a base camp, that church seemed to be a good...
For some youth at The Meeting Place, a Mennonite Brethren church in Winnipeg, 2020 was going to be a big year—they were going to do a spring overseas service trip. But then the pandemic hit. “We had done a lot of fundraising and planning, but...
It was a winter storm that led Roger Friesen of Winnipeg to start writing poetry—and then to creatively reframe the Psalms as a fundraiser for Mennonite Disaster Service (MDS) Canada. Friesen, 69, was on his way to Minot, North Dakota in 2013 from...
Three grants worth $400,000 CAD/$313,160 USD will enable Mennonite Disaster Service (MDS) Canada to help homeowners affected by last November’s floods in B.C. A grant of $210,000 CAD/$164,400 USD was given by Fraserway RV in Abbotsford, B.C.,...
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