Greetings from Paradise, California. Our volunteers this week were a large group from Pennsylvania. These gentlemen are seasoned MDS volunteers. They brought experience and humor to our project. Our long term volunteers through the month of...
This week we have a lively group of young couples from near Williamsport, PA. They are all related except the driver and his wife, so they have a lot of fun together, as well as with the rest of us. Jess Rempel and Clayton Reesor are still here as...
We are still waiting to experience warm, sunny Florida! It has been very cold in the mornings; only one afternoon was warm and sunny. We had a lot of rain on Thursday afternoon and evening, and below freezing temperatures two nights. We will be...
As the moon slowly descends into a sky of blues and grays we are again reminded of the verse found in Lamentations 3:22,23, “Because of the Lord’s great love we are not consumed, for his compassion never fail. They are new every morning great is...
Welcome to warm, sunny Florida! Actually, we have experienced very cool (cold!) temperatures, lots of rain and very windy weather on Saturday night. We are looking forward to the warm, sunny Florida weather! Our first week here has been a good...
January 5th found some of the long term team arriving in Rockport to get camp set up for volunteers. This wasn’t too difficult as Disaster Aid Ohio had been using the camp in the fall and had recently left shortly before Christmas. There are...
Greetings from Paradise, California. This week was the first week of short term volunteers here in Butte County. Our weekly volunteers came from Pennsylvania, Colorado and Idaho. Our long term volunteers through the month of January are from...
Broken Things Julie Miller is one of those Texas songwriters whose name few people have heard. Born in Waxahachie, Texas, she migrated to Austin and was part of that music community from an early age, writing and performing her songs and...
As we continue the cleanup in Mayfield, KY from the tornadoes that destroyed the town Mennonite Disaster Service along with several other organization are making progress in the cleanup efforts. Our current long-term volunteers are Laverne Geissinger...