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....
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As wildfires continue to burn in California, Mennonite Disaster Service (MDS) is reaching out in prayer for the thousands of people who have been forced to evacuate, and thousands more who see the telltale smoke clouds on the horizon and wonder if...
In light of news about unmarked graves of children at former residential schools in B.C., Saskatchewan and other parts of the Canada, the work of Mennonite Disaster Service (MDS) at the Mennonite Central Committee (MCC) Indigenous Neighbours office...
For some people, doing service means going far away—maybe to Mexico or Africa on a service trip with their church. But for Mike and Sheila Davis of Trail, B.C, this past summer it meant driving just over an hour away to help people affected by 2018...
“We came as strangers. We leave as friends.” That’s what project director Peter Thiessen said at the October 2 closing celebration of the Mennonite Disaster Service (MDS) project in Grand Forks, B.C. Before the flood, he said, Grand Forks was...
For Jan Joyce, serving as a volunteer with Mennonite Disaster Service (MDS) is like being part of a military operation. And Joyce, 62, should know—she spent 20 years in the Royal Canadian Air Force. Driving in the hills above the town, she counts...
Zachary Bartel wants to be a communicator one day—he wants to tell stories. But first, there are some potatoes to peel for hungry Mennonite Disaster Service (MDS) volunteers in Grand Forks, B.C. Bartel, 19, is a second-year student at Canadian...
Unlike other Mennonite Disaster Service (MDS) volunteers who came to Grand Forks, B.C. in early June, Sheila and Mike Davis didn’t have to travel hundreds or even thousands of kilometres to be of service. The retired couple live in nearby Trail,...
“I never thought God cared about me, but then MDS showed up.” That’s what a homeowner in Grand Forks, B.C. told Mennonite Disaster Service (MDS) volunteer Eli Klassen. The comment was moving for the 20-year-old Steinbach, Man. Bible College...
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