“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...
Sondra Smith, a native of Elkton, Virginia, remembers watching her neighborhood creek as a little girl. “The creek was half the width that it is now,” she said. When Sondra and her husband, Troy, moved back to Elkton 13 years ago after living in...
As communities from Tennessee and North Carolina up through northeast Pennsylvania, New Jersey and New York cope with the aftermath of flooding caused by Tropical Storm Henri on August 21-22, Mennonite Disaster Service (MDS) has been communicating...
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