Mennonite Weekly Review

Articles : Mennonite Disaster Service

Jan. 16 issue

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  MDS starts projects in three states

  After a historic year of devastating weather events, Mennonite Disaster Service is starting 2012 by opening new projects in Texas, Mississippi and Alabama.

  They are the first new MDS projects since one opened in July in Minot, N.D. MDS now has 12 binational projects running, eight of which have opened since April.

Nov. 7, 2011 issue

• MDS responds to forgotten disaster in North Dakota

  MINOT, N.D. — A Federal Emergency Management Agency administrator confessed she hadn’t heard of the floods that submerged more than a quarter of the buildings here. She needed a map to locate the city of 40,000 devastated by flooding in June.

Sept. 12, 2011 issue

• MDS responding in six East Coast states

  LITITZ, Pa. — Mennonite Disaster Service investigators are connecting with local officials up and down the East Coast to determine how and where MDS will respond to damage from Hurricane Irene.

June 20, 2011 issue

• Tornadoes spin MDS to action

  LITITZ, Pa. — Tornadoes have struck with unusual frequency and ferocity this spring. The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration reports 546 fatalities nationwide, the highest death toll from tornadoes since it began gathering statistics in 1950, and well above the annual average of 80 tornado-related deaths.

April 11, 2011 issue

• Working efficiently with government agencies

  HESSTON, Kan. — A former Mennonite pastor now serving in the Obama administration and a disaster relief executive recently discussed how faith-based and nonprofit organizations can work efficiently with government agencies.

March 7, 2011 issue

• MDS cuts budget, staff

  Given the nature of Mennonite Disaster Service’s work, the organization has to expand and contract, according to its executive director. Beginning this year, MDS is contracting its budget by a third.

• ‘Rebuilding families’ is MDS goal after flood in Tennessee

  LYLES, Tenn. — Andy Plank told Mennonite Disaster Service volunteers how flooding last May took out everything in his home.

Feb. 14, 2011 issue

• Five churches build for five families

  NEW IBERIA, La. — Thanks to five Hartville, Ohio, congregations, five families here can come home.

Jan. 17, 2011 issue

• 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.

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.

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