The 2011 Minot, N.D., flood – the worst since 1881 – reminded Duane Deckert, pastor of Bible Fellowship Church (MB), that one’s shelter – whether church building or house – is not where God dwells.
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The opening of a new Mennonite Disaster Service (MDS) building was like a “reunion of many long-time friends from all over Canada and the U.S.,” said MDS staff Jerry Klassen. Eight months after breaking ground, MDS dedicated the opening of the new binational office located at 583 Airport Road in Lititz, Pa., Nov. 13.
Maurice Phillips, a commercial fisher of Plaquemines Parish, La., took a group of disaster management leaders out on a small boat to “see the oil” on June 7. This is the best way to witness the destruction of the British Petroleum (BP) oil spill, said members of the Grand Bayou.
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Mennonite Disaster Service – Very special good neighbours
by James ToewsThe picture was in an old album of photographs laid out on the table in the church foyer at the MDS all-unit meeting in Saskatoon. Pictures from the early years are less profuse, but the themes were the same from 1948 to 2009: assorted disasters. In endless succession, they recorded the wreckage of hurricanes, tornadoes, floods, fires – and the cleanups.
Decrepit rooms in a single resident occupancy hotel on Winnipeg’s former skid row may not be most people’s idea of a disaster site. But that didn’t stop Mennonite Disaster Service (MDS) from running a four-week project at Red Road Lodge this summer.
In 2007, Mennonite Disaster Service, Canadian Mennonite University, and other church groups, together with the International Centre for Infectious Diseases, held Canada’s first-ever faith community summit on pandemic preparation, in Winnipeg.
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The hand of God is often blamed for natural disasters, but Mennonite Disaster Service (MDS) is working so God gets credit for the cleanup as well.
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