For six young adults from Chinatown Peace Church, a Mennonite Church Canada congregation in Vancouver, B.C., the February 20-25 university reading week turned into a work week as they volunteered with Mennonite Disaster Service (MDS) in Princeton, B....
In mid-November 2021, a series of floods impacted multiple regions of B.C. In Princeton, nearly 300 homes were flooded. In the Fraser Valley, homes, businesses and farms were flooded. In August 2021, the White Rock fire destroyed 28 structures at...
By Andrea Demeer It was -21 C on Fenchurch Avenue in Princeton on Wednesday, Feb 23, as men and women in white coveralls shoveled debris into wheelbarrows, knocked out drywall, and cleared mud from homes destroyed in the Nov. 14, 2021, flood. They...
If, as the old African proverb puts it, it takes a village to raise a child, it can also take a community to help someone recover from disaster. That’s the story Trina Enns tells about how her church—the South Abbotsford Church, part of the...
Wesley Emmelot and his wife, Maureen Parsley, lost almost everything when the Tulameen River overflowed its banks in the town of Princeton, B.C. in mid-November 2021. “There was a foot of water in the house, and the basement was filled with water...
Mario Loutef has been working on his flooded home in Princeton, B.C. since the water receded over three months ago. “It’s exhausting,” said the 59-year-old semi-retired carpenter. “There was over a metre of water in the house. We lost...
Mennonite Disaster Service (MDS) Canada is calling for volunteers to help with clean out and rebuilding of homes in Princeton, B.C. following the catastrophic flood that hit that town in mid-November. MDS Canada began muck out work on December 6th...
Mennonite Central Committee (MCC) B.C. and Mennonite Disaster Service (MDS) Canada have entered into a partnership agreement to respond to the floods that hit B.C. last November. “When the full scope of the flooding became known, it was apparent we...
2020-21 was a hard year for MDS Canada. Once again, the pandemic was the big story. It curtailed most of our responses in this country and prevented Canadians from going to the U.S. to volunteer. But it didn’t stop us from doing what we could to...
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