GOSHEN, Ind. – In just over a month, the COVID-19 Congregational Relief Fund has distributed more than $735,000 to 159 churches in the United States facing critical financial challenges due to the COVID-19 pandemic. Launched on April 13, 2020,...
Sewing masks to give away to lower income people and first responders, providing meals and cleaning supplies, supporting a breakfast club for children, supplying firewood for winter for seniors, furnishing a shelter for homeless people—these are...
LITITZ, Pa. – When Mennonite Disaster Service Executive Director Kevin King learned Catholic Charities was in need of 10,000 additional masks to help keep employees and volunteers safe, he wondered if MDS could help. After all, the two...
Sharon Taylor is home. Despite the COVID-19 pandemic, despite Hurricane Harvey, despite a disability that causes her back to hurt, despite losing all but two of her beloved seven pets. “I guess it’s true that what doesn’t kill you makes you...
Through relief funds in both the U.S. and Canada, MDS is helping Anabaptist churches keep their doors open, even amid the financial strain caused by COVID-19. In the U.S., a COVID-19 Congregational Relief Fund was created on April 13, and now has...
During this time of pandemic, MDS’s projects are all shut down until it is safe to resume work. Until that time, we are re-publishing stories of recovery and restoration from the past—stories that remind of us there’s hope, even in the most...
For the Dutch Gold Honey company, it was a sticky situation. The family-owned business—part of the Lancaster, Pennsylvania community since 1946—was allowed to operate as an essential business during the COVID-19 pandemic. But when all employees...
Canadian churches responding to COVID-19 can get help from The Spirit of MDS Fund. Mennonite Disaster Service (MDS) Canada’s operations may be suspended until fall due to the pandemic, but the organization still wants to be active in responding...
April 28, 2020 Applications pour in for COVID-19 Congregational Relief Fund By Susan Kim GOSHEN, Ind. – Anabaptist churches in the U.S. have submitted over 200 applications to the new COVID-19 Congregational Relief Fund since its launch on April 13...
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