As communities from Tennessee and North Carolina up through northeast Pennsylvania, New Jersey and New York cope with the aftermath of flooding caused by Tropical Storm Henri on August 21-22, Mennonite Disaster Service (MDS) has been communicating...
It’s summertime in Philippi, West Virginia, and cars are driving over a beautiful new bridge, some of them with canoes on top, others with mountain bikes racked on the back. Hikers can pass across safely, too, because the wide, sturdy bridge has...
Dennis Vance, a farmer and pastor, loves his community of Lizemore, West Virginia. He joyfully shared that love with college students who built a new driveway bridge in July, giving him safer access to his home. “Lizemore is the only place with...
Photo by Joanne Murray. * By Joanne Murray “Our roof was blown off as we huddled in the corner of our porch from six in the morning until nine at night. Nothing like this had ever happened to us before.” That’s how Shirley Kent vividly...
Dozens of Mennonite Disaster Service (MDS) volunteers in Harrisonburg, Virginia gathered for a picnic in May to celebrate the creative ways they had responded to community needs during the pandemic. Brimming with joy at seeing each other in-person...
After more than 2,000 hours of volunteer help from Mennonite Disaster Service (MDS), the Homes of Hope facility in Ephrata, Penn., is almost ready to open its doors to help families with children who are experiencing homelessness. The building was...
Two 1,000-square-foot modular homes built over the winter by volunteers in Strasburg, Ohio were dedicated on March 20 in West Virginia by Mennonite Disaster Service (MDS) and Disaster Aid Ohio. The homes were built by volunteers working in small...
Jeffery Moseley is a patient man. As the resident of Marianna, Fla. watched Mennonite Disaster Service (MDS) close the doors on his half-built home in December because of a spike in COVID-19 cases, he knew the volunteers would be back. “COVID has...
Two homes in the mountains of West Virginia are nearly ready for occupancy, four years after floodwaters decimated communities and upended lives there. MDS volunteers built the 1,000-foot modular homes by working inside a warehouse tucked in the...
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