Sometimes, when Roxy Sanchez pulls into her driveway, she pauses: “I just sit there and look at my home. I’m finally home,” she says. In Bloomington, Texas, the road to get there has been long, and it has forever changed her faith in God. When...
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William Stutzman A quick introduction. I, William, am “Bill”. My left-handed uncle Merle is the one called “Lefty”. “A hurricane’s tempest contains an ocean’s worth of water.” In late August of 2017 Hurricane...
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...
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...
Lee County, Alabama Tornado MDS sent in an investigation team to Macon, Barbour and Lee counties to determine the needs and how MDS can be most helpful. Search and rescue efforts have been wrapped up and everyone is accounted for. Permits to travel...
Eddie Garcia was one of the last people to leave Rockport, Texas, hours before Hurricane Harvey made landfall in the community on August 25, 2017. “I almost stayed,” Garcia said, “but something told me I better get out of there.” He went to...
Five young people – volunteers for Mennonite Disaster Service (MDS) – are staying in Vici, Oklahoma, for two months as they build a new home for Ian Stewart, who lost his home in April to a wildfire. The young volunteers are Raven Braun,...
Divide, Colorado – In late May and early June volunteers from Kansas felled around 20 trees and removed 35 major stumps from the property of the Rocky Mountain Mennonite Camp (RMMC) in an effort to combat spruce beetles which kill some trees. The...
Bloomington, Tex. — At the Mennonite Disaster Service (MDS) project site in Victoria County where people are just beginning to recover from Hurricane Harvey, a sign on the wall reads: “True service is love in working clothes.” And sometimes...
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