MDS is monitoring and assessing the needs amid the tragic wildfires in Maui, Hawaii, as the death toll nears 100 people and is expected to rise. Officials anticipate search and rescue operations will continue through the week. MDS has been...
We arrived late Sunday, July 9th in the afternoon to serve at the Red Lake Nation. It was hit by a tornado in 2021, which brought with it heavy amounts of baseball sized hail and damaged siding and broke windows. We worked on a total of four houses,...
Forty-seven new homes and counting. In a community that has suffered from wildfires since 2014, with the most recent in 2020, long-term recovery has been quietly progressing. MDS is a vital part of volunteer efforts that have kept hope alive for...
The hummingbirds are coming back. So are the deer: a doe with twin fawns has been grazing close to Christy Allen’s new house, built by MDS volunteers. From her deck—constructed with a ramp since she uses a walker—Allen overlooks Cameron...
“I’m going to go outside and ride my bike!” Five-year-old Colten Richardson excitedly described the first thing he’ll do when he moves with his family—his mother Brittany, his 8-year-old sister, and his 12-year-old brother—into a new...
Two churches have happily become one in Jennings, Louisiana. And one of the bridges between them took the form of more than 2,000 MDS volunteers who have helped the community recover from hurricanes Laura and Delta, which struck in 2020. Pastor...
Repair the roof, replace the second-floor ceiling and walls, new floor due to mold. That was the job given to Mennonite Disaster Service (MDS) volunteers at Brianna Fraser’s house in Sydney, Cape Breton. But volunteers who were working at the...
MDS dedicated three new homes in Crisfield, Maryland on April 12, boosting flood recovery in the city located on the Tangier Sound, an an arm of the Chesapeake Bay. Crisfield, hit hard by Hurricane Sandy in 2012, has suffered from repeat flooding...
Jodell Payseno was curious about the goings-on at Camp Palisades. As a high-end remodeler and builder in Jackson, Wyoming, he tends to notice construction projects. What he found when he stopped by the camp was a group of MDS volunteers busily...
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