Photo: Lydia and Cliff Trudeau By Ross Penner Cliff and Lydia Trudeau’s home looks out across Cuisson Lake, B.C. and up onto a mountain of rock that has come out Read More…
Tag: British Columbia
Current wildfires add to losses as long-term recovery from 2018 fires inches along As wildfires continue to burn in California, Mennonite Disaster Service (MDS) is reaching out in prayer for Read More…
MDS volunteers Joe Bless, Nic Hamm and Dave Brubacher of Vineland, Ont. with the special mitts given them by the MCC Indigenous Neighbours program as a token of thanks for Read More…
For some people, doing service means going far away—maybe to Mexico or Africa on a service trip with their church. But for Mike and Sheila Davis of Trail, B.C, this Read More…
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 closing celebration of Read More…
It has been a week of much celebration and many tears. As we focused on getting the last of our projects completed we were, once again, reminded of how God Read More…
The last week of September started with the arrival of eleven new volunteers from North Carolina, British Columbia, Manitoba and Pennsylvania. Three more volunteers from British Columbia joined us mid-week. Read More…
We welcomed to the Grand Forks MDS unit thirteen new weekly volunteers from Alberta, Pennsylvania a Long Term volunteer from Ontario and our new cook Linda from Penticton BC. Glenn Read More…
Greetings from Grand Forks. Our week started with cooler weather and some rain. The Fall Fair took place over the past weekend where we attended the community worship service until Read More…
Warm weather and many skilled volunteers provided the opportunity to get a great deal of work done this week. We had ten short term volunteers from British Columbia and Manitoba. Read More…