Ministry born out of Katrina

Sep 14, 2015 by and

Thi Nguyen served with Mennonite Central Committee as a translator and adviser for many Vietnamese people in Bayou La Batre, La., for two years after Katrina, then stuck around. — Mark Beach/MDS

BAYOU LA BATRE, Ala. — Thi Nguyen was attending a Vietnamese Mennonite church in Philadelphia when Hurricane Katrina struck in 2005. He wanted to help and was invited to travel to Bayou La Batre as a service...

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Restoring a way of life after Katrina

Sep 8, 2015 by and

Ruby Ancar’s house was the first repaired by Mennonite Disaster Service at Grand Bayou, and every day for the next four years she ferried MDS volunteers and supplies back and forth. — Mark Beach/MDS

GRAND BAYOU, La. — Ruby Ancar picks up a teddy bear mailed to her by a Mennonite child a few months after Hurricane Ka­trina devastated her home in the southernmost region of Plaquemines Parish. “She was...

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