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Mennonite Disaster Service brings disaster survivors back home. The MDS Podcast takes you behind the scenes of this volunteer-powered organization through conversations with the people who make it happen. Learn about disaster response, long-term recovery, the volunteers who serve, and the communities rebuilding after hurricanes, floods, tornadoes, and wildfires. Discover stories of resilience, hope, and relationships that turn into friendships when faith meets action.
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Contact path
Public web form
Booking probability
28%
Guest openness
Selective
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Signup to Generate a PitchMennonite Disaster Service brings disaster survivors back home. The MDS Podcast takes you behind the scenes of this volunteer-powered organization through conversations with the people who make it happen. Learn about disaster response, long-term recovery, the volunteers who serve, and the communities rebuilding after hurricanes, floods, tornadoes, and wildfires.
Recent episodes include "MDS Podcast Episode #17 - Lilli and Jakob Rempel (ft. Susan Kim)" (15 October 2026, 26 minutes), "MDS Podcast Episode #16- Karen Shelly Smucker" (28 September 2026, 21 minutes), and "MDS Podcast Episode #15 - Paul Unruh" (14 September 2026, 53 minutes).
Mennonite Disaster Service publishes roughly every two weeks, with episodes averaging 33 minutes across 17 episodes.
Booking probability for Mennonite Disaster Service is 28%, and the host is rated Selective on guests. Mennonite Disaster Service requires a Pod Score of 80 or higher. Mennonite Disaster Service's contact route on record: public web form.
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Mennonite Disaster Service is a business podcast with 17 episodes published.
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Lilli and Jakob Rempel served with MDS from 1999 to 2001. A Christian service organization in Germany connected them to MDS. They came to serve. They ended with a new perspective on the way that Christians worship...
Relationships have been a common theme in conversations on the MDS podcast. Karen Shelly Smucker shares how an MDS project became the starting point for one of the most important relationships in her life. She has...
Mennonite Disaster Service
Paul Unruh started responding to disaster in 1993, on the Mississippi Flood Corridor, sent by his boss at a psychiatric hospital because Mennonite Disaster Service needed a mental health worker on site. Three decades...
Episode #14
One of the most richly story-filled episodes yet, host Gloria Nussbaum sat down with Herb Hoover to talk about his life of service. Herbert Hoover has been serving with MDS since he was 20 years old, back when a...
Episode #13
Host Gloria Nussbaum sits down with Henry Warkentin, former Chairman of MDS Canada, whose service began at 23 when he helped a neighbor recovering from a back injury. That small act grew into decades of disaster...
Episode #12
Host Gloria Nussbaum sits down with Gord Friesen from Winnipeg, Manitoba, for a conversation that spans more than seven decades of MDS history.Gord's connection to disaster response goes back to childhood, tagging along...
Mennonite Disaster Service
After retiring from a career designing power plants, Clete Yoder took one trip to Mississippi with a friend to help rebuild a home -- and never really stopped. Host Gloria Nussbaum sits down with Clete to trace a...
Episode #9
In this episode, Gloria Nussbaum sits down with Abe Ens of Winkler, Manitoba, whose connection to Mennonite Disaster Service stretches back to its earliest years. Abe shares how he first became involved in disaster...
Episode #8
It started with a free trip to Alaska through a Mennonite church. What followed was 13 years, 44 project sites, and a life of service that took Don Mintmier from the coast of American Samoa to the mountains of...
Episode #7
<p>When interviewer Gloria Nussbaum asked Frank Hoover what he received from his decades of service with Mennonite Disaster Service, his answer was immediate: "Way more than I put in." Frank reminds us that even in the...
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<p>Esther McCoy of Manheim, Pennsylvania, after learning about Mennonite Disaster Service 30 years ago, went on to serve alongside her husband Bill for 20 years, from 1995 to 2015. With skills in construction and...
<p>Don and Rachel Horst of Newton, Kansas have been showing up for people in their worst moments for nearly five decades. First responding to the Big Thompson Canyon flood in Colorado in 1976, the Horsts have since...
Mennonite Disaster Service
<p>“MDS changes lives.” On February 10, 2023 in Lancaster, PA Gloria Nussbaum met with Sabourin of Winnipeg, Manitoba. Denis talks about his faith journey, how he came to know MDS, and how his first trip led to him...
<p>On November 18, 2024, Gloria Nussbaum sits down with Tom Smucker of Sterling, Ohio, former Executive Director of Mennonite Disaster Service, to reflect on a lifetime of responding to disaster.</p><p>Tom shares how he...
<p>Meet Steve and Connie Caucci from Duette, Florida. Listen to them recall hurricane Ian, their experience in the storm, and how they came in contact with MDS.“I never thought that I was going to be one of those in...
<p>Gloria Nussbaum interviews Jerry Grosh, Interim Director of Operations with MDS. Jerry shares how he was introduced to MDS, his first experience serving in Alabama after Hurricane Katrina, how disaster response...
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