Mennonite Weekly Review

Articles : Brian Pipkin

Jan. 17, 2011 issue

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  Photo by Gerald Epp/MDS

  MDS project helps Bayou community to grow food

  Mennonite Disaster Service is helping people near Grand Bayou, La., use cage-like baskets — often used for military fortification during warfare — to create elevated gardens.

  The raised-bed gardens project, initiated and designed by the community prior to last summer’s Gulf Coast oil spill, is creating a sustainable source of vegetables, trees and native plants.

Jan. 3, 2011 issue

• Unemployed, homeless and biking for service

  LITITZ, Pa. — On Nov. 18, Neal Friesen ended a bike ride that zigzagged through 48 states, covered 10,019 miles in 173 days and raised $5,068 for Mennonite Disaster Service.

Dec. 20, 2010 issue

• MDS does search and rescue

  In a first for Mennonite Disaster Service, an early-response team in northern Arkansas is doing search-and-rescue operations.

Dec. 6, 2010 issue

• Baking a little like bartending

  Bellefonte, Pa. — Though Martha Deitrich is unable to volunteer with Mennonite Disaster Service, she bakes to support MDS financially.

Nov. 29, 2010 issue

• Tribe gets MDS help with repairs

  Despite initial tribal resistance, nine Mennonite Disaster Service volunteers recently repaired storm-damaged low-income homes for the Cheyenne River Sioux Tribe reservation in Eagle Butte, S.D.

Nov. 22, 2010 issue

• MDS dedicates new headquarters

  LITITZ, Pa. — Eight months after breaking ground, the Mennonite Disaster Service binational headquarters is complete.

Aug. 16, 2010 issue

• MDS collects cards for Gulf residents

  DIAMOND, La. — Mennonite Disaster Service is inviting people to send cards with notes of encouragement to Gulf Coast residents affected by the oil spill.

July 19, 2010 issue

• With MDS, students put theory into practice

  Weir, Miss. — David Hochstetler was astonished by the damage a tornado caused in this town of 500.

March 1, 2010 issue

• MDS anniversary: 60 years of sharing

  SASKATOON, Sask. — Sixty years ago Mennonite Disaster Service was born from a small group of people in Kansas.

Feb. 8, 2010 issue

• Gifts to MDS help replace stolen tools

  RAMONA, Calif. — Bert Hamm returned to the Mennonite Disaster Service camp site Jan. 5 after a Christmas break and noticed something unusual.

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