When a wildfire raged too close, James McCraigie tried to grab his three dogs and get out. He managed to take two—He-man and Bobby—as his third dog, Teala, hid under McCraigie’s mobile home. “I just kept my fingers crossed it was going to...
Story by Theresa Schmidt for KPLC News 7 Lake Charles, LA (KPLC) – Many in Southwest Louisiana are still struggling to recover from Hurricane Laura and the disasters that followed. A collaboration between Mennonites and Amish, along with...
Volunteers from Mennonite Disaster Service (MDS) are on the ground in tornado-ravaged areas of Kentucky, focusing on cleanup as well as plans for a long-term response. In the Mayfield area—badly damaged during the Dec. 10 tornado—MDS volunteers...
Story by Kalea Anderson for NBC WSPD 6 Local News MAYFIELD, KY — Some in Mayfield are moving on to the rebuilding phase after an EF-4 tornado ripped through neighborhoods. Now, thanks to help from Homes and Hope for Kentucky, they don’t have...
When the call went out in November for MDS volunteers to go to Princeton, B.C., James Toews seized the chance to serve. Toews, a member of the Mennonite Central Committee B.C. board, knew about MDS but had never done service with the organization...
Blue tarp after blue tarp. That’s the view for weary residents in the city of Lake Charles, Louisiana, after they’ve been through disaster on top of disaster. Hurricane Laura made landfall on Aug. 27, 2020 just south of Lake Charles, as a...
Mennonite Disaster Service (MDS) Early Response Teams are on the ground in Kentucky and Tennessee assessing the damage from a string of deadly tornadoes which struck last weekend. Initial assessment from our Early Response Teams is that many of the...
Time to register for the 2022 MDS Annual Celebration, January 21–22, 2022, in sunny Sarasota, Florida! With the theme “Restoring Hope With Love,” the celebration will bring together volunteers, donors, friends and MDS staff for worship,...
Mennonite Disaster Service (MDS) has job openings in the U.S. and Canada for people who have a knowledge of and passion for the MDS mission, vision and values and a commitment to the Anabaptist church. Mennonite Disaster Service recruits, organizes...
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