Funds will be used for volunteer support, new tool trailer Mennonite Disaster Service (MDS) Canada’s efforts to assist people whose homes were damaged by spring floods in the Minden, Ottawa …
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Mennonite Disaster Service closes project in Grand Forks “We came as strangers. We leave as friends.” That’s what project director Peter Thiessen said at the October 2, 2019, closing celebration …
Mennonite Disaster Service Canada Keeping Eye on Hurricane Dorian As Americans watch and wait for Hurricane Dorian’s landfall, Mennonite Disaster Service (MDS) Canada is keeping an eye on the storm, …
Founded in 1950, Mennonite Disaster Service (MDS) is a volunteer network of the North American Mennonite churches that responds to those affected by disasters in Canada and the U.S. In …
Hundreds dead, situation continuing to escalate Six days after a devastating cyclone made landfall in southern Africa resulting in widespread damage and flooding, over one thousand people are feared dead …
Head and heart at work with MDS Why are you doing this? “Faith expressing itself in love.” Mennonite Disaster Service (MDS) responds to natural disasters by sending volunteer groups who …
“Our hearts were left totally destroyed…but thanks to MWC, who have come to visit us and have given us this uplifting and encouraging word, a word of hope and love,” …
When someone you love is a collector, deciding what to get them for Christmas is easy. (If you’re wondering/shopping, I collect contemporary Canadian poetry books.) People collect all kinds of …
What happens when a country is hit by one vicious disaster after the other? Hurricane Irma—the most powerful storm ever recorded in the Atlantic Ocean—didn’t end up hitting Haiti with …
MCC is responding to the two earthquakes which ravaged Mexico, including the 7.1-magnitude quake that hit southern Mexico near Atencingo, Puebla state, causing significant damage in Mexico City on September …
Click here to read a May 12 update from MDS. Fires in and around the northern Alberta city of Fort McMurray has Mennonite Disaster Service Alberta Unit and Region V …
A photo of a dead child washed up on shore. Crowds of refugees walking towards safety in Europe. Overcrowded boats filled with frightened families.
As the monsoon season begins in Nepal, the main priority for people affected by the Apr. 25, 2015, earthquake is shelter.
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