An eight-year-old kneels, with battery-operated drill in hand, over a sheet of plywood. He knows what to do. It’s a familiar scene at Mennonite Disaster Service (MDS) Family Projects. It’s amazing what young people can accomplish with the...
Loria Adams wants to “get good sleep and cook something decent” in her new house. Across town, Betty Holloway wishes her mother could see her new residence. “If she could see me now—my mother would be 109 years old,” she said. What’s 96-...
The wall of signatures and blessings. Freida Platt’s cooking. Meals, jokes, and prayers with Pastor Roy Platt, at the Jennings Church of Christ. All the ways the church and the whole community of Jennings, Louisiana, opened their hearts to MDS...
Denis Sabourin took a leap of faith when he signed up to volunteer with Mennonite Disaster Service (MDS) ten years ago. He was introduced to the organization in 2014 when a group of weekly volunteers received an outgoing blessing at his church, The...
Airplanes swooping down low over the cotton fields of Alabama. That’s one of Doris Hale’s first memories as a little girl. “I was born November 30, 1965,” she said. “My mother worked in the fields, and we stayed on people’s places.”...
Every year the Gospel Mission Church, an Evangelical Mennonite Mission Conference (EMMC) congregation in Winkler, Manitoba, runs an event called Love the Valley. There are many components to the event such as hot dog lunches and yard work for low...
Mennonite Disaster Service (MDS) is assessing needs in the wake of deadly tornadoes that struck Ohio, Indiana, and Kentucky on March 14. Three people were killed and 38 more injured near Indian Lake, Ohio, about 70 miles northwest of Columbus....
Phil Helmuth was beating the bushes to find a reasonably-priced electrician. It was early 2023, when MDS was rebuilding and repairing homes in the wake of hurricanes Laura and Delta in southwest Louisiana, Helmuth, an MDS project coordinator,...
The Pacific Southwest Mennonite Conference is a partner with Mennonite Disaster Service (MDS). The following reflection was written by Stanley Green, executive conference minister for the Pacific Southwest Mennonite Conference. He recently toured...
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