Mennonite Disaster Service (MDS) Canada is calling for volunteers to help with clean out and rebuilding of homes in Princeton, B.C. following the catastrophic flood that hit that town in mid-November. MDS Canada began muck out work on December 6th...
“Having a good time together and doing God’s work,” is how 35-year-old Kelcie Dorsing Brewer described her recent week of volunteering for Mennonite Disaster Service (MDS) in Okanogan, Washington. She’s planning to go back and, given the...
Wildfire survivors in Okanogan, Washington and Paradise, California—some of them living in sheds, some in cars—need homes. Can Mennonite Disaster Service (MDS) volunteers finish the homes they’ve started? Some of these survivors have been...
“Cheering and hollering!” Rev. Roy Platt clearly remembers the reaction in Jennings, Louisiana, when Mennonite Disaster Service (MDS) volunteers first arrived at the Jennings Church of Christ. “When MDS came down to survey our facility, it...
“Thank God the trees that fell on my house really kept the whole house from blowing away,” said Francisco Rios. “Thank God the volunteers are here to help.” The volunteers—from Mennonite Disaster Service (MDS)—are helping Rios demolish...
“God’s handiwork.” That’s how Heather Nesler sums up the connections that brought Mennonite Disaster Service (MDS) to help people in tornado-stricken Mayfield, Kentucky. Nesler, who grew up in Mayfield and still lives there with her...
On a freezing January morning in the tornado-ravaged town of Mayfield, Justin Weaver was picking through memories. Weaver—joining Jim and Phil Eicher, two longtime friends from Berne, Indiana—drove from his home in White Pigeon, Michigan, to...
Mennonite Central Committee (MCC) B.C. and Mennonite Disaster Service (MDS) Canada have entered into a partnership agreement to respond to the floods that hit B.C. last November. “When the full scope of the flooding became known, it was apparent we...
2020-21 was a hard year for MDS Canada. Once again, the pandemic was the big story. It curtailed most of our responses in this country and prevented Canadians from going to the U.S. to volunteer. But it didn’t stop us from doing what we could to...
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