By Hillary Andrews , Rebekah Castor LAKE CHARLES, La. – Residents in tarp-covered homes and businesses anxiously await Friday’s omnibus appropriation bill vote. Louisiana’s lawmakers are pressing Congress to send more federal disaster...
For six young adults from Chinatown Peace Church, a Mennonite Church Canada congregation in Vancouver, B.C., the February 20-25 university reading week turned into a work week as they volunteered with Mennonite Disaster Service (MDS) in Princeton, B....
In mid-November 2021, a series of floods impacted multiple regions of B.C. In Princeton, nearly 300 homes were flooded. In the Fraser Valley, homes, businesses and farms were flooded. In August 2021, the White Rock fire destroyed 28 structures at...
Abraham Parfait is a bayou man through and through. A resident of Dulac, Louisiana, stories spilled out of him, drifting into the ears of the Mennonite Disaster Service (MDS) and Storm Aid volunteers building his new house. “I’ve got two boys,...
By Andrea Demeer It was -21 C on Fenchurch Avenue in Princeton on Wednesday, Feb 23, as men and women in white coveralls shoveled debris into wheelbarrows, knocked out drywall, and cleared mud from homes destroyed in the Nov. 14, 2021, flood. They...
Making trails, building a new rope course, repairing cabins and enjoying a week in beautiful New Brunswick—these are the things awaiting youth groups that want to do service with Mennonite Disaster Service (MDS) Canada this summer. “We are...
If, as the old African proverb puts it, it takes a village to raise a child, it can also take a community to help someone recover from disaster. That’s the story Trina Enns tells about how her church—the South Abbotsford Church, part of the...
Wesley Emmelot and his wife, Maureen Parsley, lost almost everything when the Tulameen River overflowed its banks in the town of Princeton, B.C. in mid-November 2021. “There was a foot of water in the house, and the basement was filled with water...
Mario Loutef has been working on his flooded home in Princeton, B.C. since the water receded over three months ago. “It’s exhausting,” said the 59-year-old semi-retired carpenter. “There was over a metre of water in the house. We lost...
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