Retirees Susan and Peter Thiessen call it their “Mennonite Disaster Service retirement plan.” “Being retired and doing MDS is wonderful,” says Peter, 65, who is co-coordinator of the project in Grand Forks, B.C. with Susan, 64. “We get to...
“You’d make a great MDSer.” That’s what a long-time Mennonite Disaster Service (MDS) volunteer told Robert Prinse, a self-employed carpenter from Chilliwack, B.C. That was in 2001. It took Prinse, 56, until 2014 to follow through on the...
Brian Marten of Pincher Creek, Alberta, wasn’t planning on doing service in Grand Forks, B.C. with Mennonite Disaster Service (MDS). But his friend Jim Dyck was going, and he invited him to come along. So he did. “Jim suggested I should come,...
What do you get when you put four retired in teachers in a pick-up truck and head out to do service with Mennonite Disaster Service (MDS)? A road trip! That’s what Peter Bartel, 81, Frank Reimer, 79, Ernie Ewert, 70, and Peter Andres, 74, did in...
Roman Heuft went to Williams Lake, B.C. last year to serve for just a week with Mennonite Disaster Service (MDS)—it was a way to use his career skills in construction management to help people whose houses were destroyed by wildfires. Then he got...
People who serve with Mennonite Disaster Service (MDS) come from all over North America—and that includes Mexico, too. That’s where Dietrich Reimer, 25, and Rosa Quintana, 26 are from. The couple, members of the Blumenau Mennonite Church in...
Mennonite Disaster Service – Western Ohio Unit responds to recent natural disasters Thank you to everyone who made Saturday, June 22nd, a day of “rebuilding hope” in a small Dayton Ohio neighborhood. Volunteers came from multiple...
Click here to read the update. Mennonite Disaster Service’s Ontario Unit returns to aid in the flooding relief in and around the Constance Bay, Ottawa area. Click here to read the article...
MDS is actively monitoring the situation across the Midwest, especially the hard hit areas of Nebraska and Iowa. Local MDS volunteers are actively responding with cleanup/muck out crews in Nebraska. MDS is working with local emergency management...
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