After more than 2,000 hours of volunteer help from Mennonite Disaster Service (MDS), the Homes of Hope facility in Ephrata, Penn., is almost ready to open its doors to help families with children who are experiencing homelessness. The building was...
Reflections by Ann Pasnick with Lois Wenger Ann Pasnick (center) presents a finished quilt, cut by her late mother, to the Hebert family in Cameron, La. It was a moment of mixed emotions as I stood there at the linen closet of the old Kansas...
Two 1,000-square-foot modular homes built over the winter by volunteers in Strasburg, Ohio were dedicated on March 20 in West Virginia by Mennonite Disaster Service (MDS) and Disaster Aid Ohio. The homes were built by volunteers working in small...
Patient. Grateful. Welcoming. That’s how Orlin Martens, a plumber from Inman, Kan., described the families he helped in Bastrop, Tex. in mid-March as a Mennonite Disaster Service (MDS) volunteer. Those families had been without water for more than...
Photo credit: David King Volunteer Bruce Kindy works in Marianna, Fla., where four new MDS homes are underway. Four families in the hurricane-damaged Florida Panhandle city of Marianna will open the doors to their new homes by summertime, thanks...
“When’s the next MDS trip?” That’s a question Ron Long of the Vincent Mennonite Church in Spring City, Penn.often hears from youth at his church. Long, who has been involved in youth ministry for decades, coordinated the church’s first...
MDS volunteer Doug Casey shares a smile with resident of Bastrop, Texas, after restoring water in his home. On the last day of their weeklong volunteer service in Bastrop, Texas, Jim Ensz and Doug Casey were helping a woman with disabilities who...
MDS volunteers (l to r), Paul Steckle, Andrew Weber, Glenn Bowman, Glenn Weber and Dan Bauman begin work on renovating the northern home of MCC Ontario’s Indigenous Neighbours Program. MCC Photo. Two years after working together on a project to...
When Carl Dube describes his visit to the small community of Cameron, Louisiana, he sounds as if he’s checking on his neighbors. Dube, who served in the Gulf Coast town as a project director with Mennonite Disaster Service (MDS), remembers every...
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