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Eugene StandingCloud, Red Lake Nation District Representative speaking during the Red Lake closing celebration.

“The Creator brought you to us”

Over the past two summers, 472 Mennonite Disaster Service (MDS) volunteers have made the Red Lake Nation their home. They repaired 58 homes on the reservation, equaling 17,285 volunteer hours. “The Creator brought you to us,” said...

“You are a force for good”

Dennis Moninger will never forget Mennonite Disaster Service (MDS). In June 2024, he wrote an email to MDS that read, in part: “You are a force for good.” He went on to describe how his son and daughter have now both graduated from college...

Love inspires recovery

Harry Davis remembers the day water rushed over the road, like a dam breaking upstream from his house. It was July 10, 2023, and a devastating flood hit central Vermont. Davis sheltered in place as his cellar and the main floor of his house flooded....

“Like another world”

A nineteenth century house stands two storeys high on the banks of the Winooski River. Numa Haase, the homeowner of nearly four decades, always wanted to live on a river. “[When] you go down to the river, you don’t hear the noise of the...

7 Traditional women stand in muddy dresses holding shovels after a long day mucking out mud.

Hope from behind the lens

There’s a story behind this now-famous photo. Mennonite Disaster Service (MDS) volunteer Brent Trumbo, who was serving as a crew leader for two weeks in Barre, Vermont, decided to take the picture at the end of a long day mucking out a flooded...

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