Identity area
Type of entity
Corporate body
Authorized form of name
Mennonite Disaster Service
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Description area
Dates of existence
1950-
History
- founded by a group of men in Hesston, Kansas, who had all been conscientious objectors during World War II
- MDS was founded as service agency in order to do "something constructive during times of peace", working closely with Mennonite Central Committee
- 1963: the Canadian arm of MDS was accepted as an arm of MCC Canada
- 1993: incorporated separately from MCC and divided into 5 regions -- 4 in the USA and Canada being Region 5; the Canadian region in turn organized provincial chapters from Ontario to British Columbia
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Control area
Authority record identifier
CA-MHA-2022
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Status
Level of detail
Dates of creation, revision and deletion
Dec 2022 by AHR
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Sources
Detweiler, Lowell. The hammer rings hope: photos and stories from fifty years of Mennonite Disaster Service. Scottdale, PA: Herald Press, 2000.
Friesen, John. Building Communities: The changing face of Manitoba Mennonites. Winnipeg, CMU Press, 2007: 165.
Snyder, William T. "Mennonite Disaster Service." Global Anabaptist Mennonite Encyclopedia Online. 1957. Web. 15 Dec 2022.