February 7-8, 2020Maple City Chapel, Goshen, Indiana

MDS ALL-UNITMEETING

SEEINGJESUS

AMONGUS

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Welcome to the

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Cover photo:Homeowner Denise McCray with volunteers Jon Baloo Voth (left) and Raven Braun. Photo by Paul Hunt.

Back cover photo:MDS Diamond, Louisiana project. Photo by Julie Kauffman.

19 That Sunday evening the disciples were meeting behind locked

doors because they were afraid of the Jewish leaders. Suddenly, Jesus

was standing there among them! “Peace be with you,” he said. 20 As

he spoke, he showed them the wounds in his hands and his side. They

were filled with joy when they saw the Lord! 21 Again he said, “Peace

be with you. As the Father has sent me, so I am sending you.” 22 Then

he breathed on them and said, “Receive the Holy Spirit. 23 If you forgive

anyone’s sins, they are forgiven. If you do not forgive them, they are

not forgiven.”

John 20:19-23 NLT

AUM 2020 THEME: Seeing Jesus Among Us

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CONTENTS

Friday Program . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4

Saturday Program . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5

Workshops . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6

Speakers . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7

Steering Committee and Committee Volunteers . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 10

MDS Board of Delegates . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 11

MDS Board of Directors . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 12

MDS Region Officers . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 13

MDS Staff . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 14

Songs . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 16

Friends and Corporate Sponsors . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 30

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FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 7, 2020

4:00 pm Registration Lobby

5:15 pm Dinner Fellowship Hall

7:00 pm Welcome (Sanctuary) Joe Miller Opening Remarks Ronn Frantz Partner Recognition: MCC Eric Kurtz, Exec. Dir. Devotional Rev. Joel Short Singing Merle Sommers Region 1 Report Rev. Emily Kirby Partner Recognition: Everence Year-In-Review Kevin King

8:45 pm Announcements/Adjourn

Respond. Rebuild. Restore.

9:00 am Welcome Sanctuary Singing Merle Sommers Region 3 Report Cristina Cornejo Region 4 Report Roger Sharp 10:00 am Break Fellowship Hall (Goshen Health Sponsor)

10:20 am Singing Merle Sommers MDS Canada Report Rachel and Gabe Warriner MDS Board Report Ross Miller

11:45 am Lunch Fellowship Hall

12:30 noon Featured Speaker Brenda Phillips

2:00 pm Workshops

3:30 pm Break Fellowship Hall

3:50 pm Singing Merle Sommers Region 2 Report Hubert Yates Disaster Management Program Cleo Koop

Closing Reflections Rebecca Sommers and Ronn Frantz 4:50 pm 2021 All-Unit Meeting Invitation Wayne and Carole Stucky 5:00 pm Announcements/Adjourn 6:00 pm Dinner Fellowship Hall

7:00 pm Closing Concert The Open Fifths a capella choral ensemble

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SATURDAY, FEBRUARY 8, 2020

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WORKSHOPS

(PICK ONE) Effective Volunteer Engagement Learn ways to identify and engage local volunteers, to provide meaningful experiences for them, and to retain them with your organization. Facilitators: MDS Volunteer Team

MDS Construction Standards and Problem-Solving A panel of MDS construction supervisors will address common problems areas and discuss solutions and best practices on the job site. Convener: Harold FriesenPanelists: Ivan Shirk, Region 1; Clete Yoder, Region 2; Jordan Miller, Region 3; Harold Miller, Region 4

Tools for Telling the MDS Story Media interviews, church presentations and even elevator rides give us opportunities to tell the MDS story. This workshop will help you craft articulate messages that tell the MDS story and convey the passion we all share for rebuilding and restoring lives. Facilitator: Jesse Huxman

Case Management by MDS MDS Canada is most often required to provide their own case management. This workshop will offer training on how to do unit-based case management in order to ensure a good match with MDS’s mission. Facilitator: Evelyn Peter-Rojas

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SPEAKERS

Joel ShortRev. Joel Short is the pastor at Hopewell Mennonite Church in Kouts, Indiana where he has served for 10 years. He and his wife Karen have two children. Joel enjoys reading, hiking, astronomy, and travel with his family. In January 2017 Joel and several others from Hopewell served in MDS in Clearlake, California following wildfires in the area.

Emily Kirby Rev. Emily Kirby grew up in metro-Atlanta and is a Provisional Deacon in the North Georgia Annual Conference. Emily currently serves as the Volunteer Coordinator for the South Carolina Annual Conference Disaster Recovery Team. As a life-long United Methodist, Emily understands the love of God as grace abundant. In addition to ministry Emily loves spending time with her husband Adam Kirby and their precious,

precocious 13-month old son Judah. At the end of the day Emily’s goals are to love God, love people, and be in God’s beautiful natural creation as much as possible!

Cristina Cornejo Cristina is Program Manager for the Rebuild Texas Fund, a collaborative project of the Michael and Susan Dell Foundation and the OneStar Foundation established to support the rebuilding efforts in communities impacted by Hurricane Harvey. The Rebuild Texas Fund raised $100M, all of which is at work on the ground in affected Texas communities. Cristina has worked directly with grantees to assess and prioritize critical community needs in order to obtain private

philanthropic funds. Cristina and the Rebuild Texas Fund team will be working alongside these communities through 2020 to complete all 290 funded projects.

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Gabe and Rachel WarrinerGabe and Rachel have a long-term approach to flood recovery. Their passion is to see Grand Forks, British Columbia not only return to its preflood living condition, but that it would be even better. They both continue to work with incredible organizations like Samaritans Purse and Mennonite Disaster Service to ensure that

Grand Forks recovers fully and completely. They are also working alongside other churches and organizations that desire to see Grand Forks fully restored. In life, they are passionate about their family and value spending time with their kids and hope that grandkids are in the near future. They love to travel locally and internationally and are expectant about the good things God has in store for them.

Brenda D. Phillips Brenda D. Phillips is the Dean of the College of Liberal Arts and Sciences at Indiana University South Bend. She is the author of Mennonite Disaster Service, a book about Hurricane Katrina and the therapeutic healing effects of volunteer work. Her new book, Disaster Volunteers, will be out in 2020. She is a graduate of Bluffton College and The Ohio State University. Her career has been spent studying and teaching about disaster

recovery and socially vulnerable populations. She has volunteered to help MDS with a variety of tasks from assessing their efforts to supporting the development of disaster courses and programs at Hesston College and Canadian Mennonite University. She has also taught courses on humanitarian leadership at Eastern Mennonite University and is a graduate of the EMU STAR program. Brenda and her family moved to South Bend, Indiana in 2018.

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Hubert E. YatesRev. Hubert Yates is currently completing his second three-year term on the Board of Directors of the Mississippi Voluntary Organizations Active in Disaster (MSVOAD) organization representing the Mississippi Baptist Convention Disaster Relief (MBDR) efforts where he serves as a member of the Overhead/Management Team. He is serving his second consecutive term as Board President for MSVOAD. Prior to representing Mississippi

Baptist Disaster Relief with MSVOAD, Hubert served with Winston STRONG, a Community Based Recovery Committee serving Winston County, Mississippi, as Volunteer Operations Manager in recovery efforts following the April 2014 eF4 tornado resulting in 35 complete rebuilds and over 115 major repair projects through the efforts of volunteer organizations including Mennonite Disaster Service. Prior to entering the volunteer disaster relief area, Hubert served for 28 years in the Fire/EMS/EMA arena in both career and volunteer positions. Hubert is a believer in Christ and has served the past 26 years as a bivocational pastor for Baptist congregations in East Mississippi. He is married to Tracey P. Yates (36 years) and has two adult children.

AUM STEERING COMMITTEE & COMMITTEE VOLUNTEERS

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AUM Steering Committee Ronn Frantz Rollin Ulrich Dayton Frey Manass Hochtetler Titus King Clay Shetler Gregg Nussbaum Joe and Kris Miller Vernon Schmucker Brian Pipkin Denise Risser Brandi Gingerich

AUM Committee Volunteers Tonya Detweiler Nina Frantz Gayle FreyJohn Hochstetler Wilmer Hoover Roger Martin Karen Mast Norm Maust Russell Miller Rose Shetler Larry Thomas Velma Ulrich Les Edger

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MDS BOARD OF DELEGATES Albert Schrock, New Order AmishOakland, Maryland Wayne Yoder, Conservative ConferenceJefferson, Ohio Jane Slabaugh, Member-at-LargeAlabaster, Alabama Morris Yoder, Amish-MennoniteWeldon, Iowa Ray Zimmerman, Member-at-LargeTurbotville, Pennsylvania Wayne Schrock, Member-at-LargeMillersburg, Indiana Bill Mast, Mennonite BrethrenOklahoma City, Oklahoma Wilmer Hoover, Weaverland ConferenceElizabethtown, Pennsylvania Mark Shibukawa, Member-at-LargeNorco, California Jerry Wyse, Member-at-LargeHaven, Kansas Mannie Flaud, Old Order AmishBird-in-Hand, Pennsylvania Vic Janzen, Member-at-LargeChilliwack, British Columbia

Ivan Shirk, Member-at-LargeEphrata, Pennsylvania

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MDS BOARD OF DIRECTORS

Catrina Miiller, Member-at-LargeIowa City, Iowa

Denis Keating, MDS Canada Landmark, Manitoba

Ed Buhler, Vice Chair Aberdeen, Saskatchewan

Esther Buck, Member-at-Large Gorrie, Ontario

Frank Hoover, Treasurer Ephrata, Pennsylvania

Glen Kauffman, MDS CanadaEdson, Alberta

Harold Friesen, Secretary and MDS Canada Board ChairCalgary, Alberta

Judy Lopez, Member-at-LargeBakersfield, California

Nick Hamm, Member-at-Large Vineland, Ontario

Phil Troyer, Region 1 Board Chair Fairview, North Carolina

Roger Sharp, Region 4 Board Chair Alta Loma, California

Ronn Frantz, Region 2 Board Chair Chicago, Illinois

Ross Miller, Board Chair Uniontown, Ohio

Wayne and Carole Stucky, Region 3 Board Co-Chairs Topeka, Kansas

MDS Canada

Region 4

Region 3 Region 2

Region 1

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MDS REGION OFFICERS

Region 1Phil Troyer Region1@mds.mennonite.net

Region 2 Ronn FrantzRegion2@mds.mennonite.net

Region 3 Wayne and Carole Stucky Region3@mds.mennonite.net

Region 4 Roger SharpRegion4@mds.mennonite.net

MDS Canada Harold Friesen Canadachair@mds.mennonite.net

Alicia Hurst, Volunteer Administrative Assistant Lititz, Pennsylvania

Becky Gochnauer, Volunteer Manager Lititz, Pennsylvania

Brad Fair, Development Manager Lititz, Pennsylvania

Brian Pipkin, Executive Assistant Lititz, Pennsylvania

Christle Gehman, Public Relations/Social Media Coordinator Lititz, Pennsylvania

Danielle Peters, Accounting Bookkeeper Winnipeg, Manitoba

Darin Bontrager, Regional Operations Coordinator Region 2Goshen, Indiana

Darrin Yoder, Fleet and Logistics Manager Lititz, Pennsylvania

Deanna Frey, Coordinator for Weekly Volunteers Lititz, Pennsylvania

Doug Nolt, Warehouse and Equipment Manager Columbus, Mississippi

Evelyn Peters-Rojas, Volunteer Development and Project Coordinator Winnipeg, Manitoba

Gabby Bomberger, Program Administrative Assistant Lititz, Pennsylvania

Ginny Sauder, Database Support/Administrative Assistant Lititz, Pennsylvania

Glenn Hillard, Admin and Finance Manager Lititz, Pennsylvania

Heidi Charles, Staff Accountant Lititz, Pennsylvania Jeff Koller, Regional Operations Coordinator Region 3 McPherson, Kansas

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MDS STAFF

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Jerry Grosh, Field Operations ManagerLititz, Pennsylvania

Jesse Huxman, Communications Manager Harrisonburg, Virginia

John Longhurst, Communications Coordinator Winnipeg, Manitoba

Josh Carson, Volunteer Coordinator for Leadership Lititz, Pennsylvania

Karla Friesen, Leadership Volunteer Interviewer Harrisonburg, Virginia

Kelsey Friesen, Volunteer Coordinator Winnipeg, Manitoba

Kevin King, Executive Director Lititz, Pennsylvania

Larry Stoner, Regional Operations Coordinator Region 1 Manheim, Pennsylvania

Lucille Toews, Administrative Assistant Winnipeg, Manitoba

Lyndell Good, Receptionist/Administrative Assistant Lititz, Pennsylvania

Nancy Chapman, Volunteer Training Specialist Lititz, Pennsylvania

Phil Helmuth, Volunteer Development Coordinator Harrisonburg, Virginia

Ron Guenther, Director of Operations Lititz, Pennsylvania

Ross Penner, Director of Canadian Operations Winnipeg, Manitoba

Steve Wiest, Regional Operations Coordinator Region 4Kingsburg, California

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FRIENDS AND CORPORATE SPONSORS

Miller Brothers BuildersMiller’s Building Supply, Inc.Miller PoultryNorthern Indiana Woodcrafters AssociationNuway ConstructionRiegsecker BlueGate Restaurant and BakeyTeam Construction Company, Inc.Town and Country Builders —Vern & Diane HeacockSchrock HomesDr. Mark and Vicki SmuckerZehr Construction

ARI Legacy SleepersBender’s ConstructionBorntrager RoofingEverence Federal Credit UnionForks County Line StoresGoshen HealthHoosier HardwoodJoJo’s PretzelsBob and Deb Kauffman Leatherman Supply Martin Brothers ConstructionMill Construction, Inc.Wilma Miller

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MISSION STATEMENT

Mennonite Disaster Service is a volunteer network of Anabaptist

Churches that responds in Christian love to those affected by

disasters in Canada and the United States. While the main focus

is on cleanup, repair and rebuilding homes, this service touches

lives and nurtures hope, faith and wholeness.

MDS Binational Office583 Airport RoadLititz, PA 17543 USAtel: 717-735-3536fax: 717-735-0809toll-free: 800-241-8111mdsus@mds.mennonite.net

MDS Canada Office200-600 Shaftesbury Blvd.Winnipeg, MB R3P 2J1 Canadatel: 204-261-1274fax: 204-261-1279toll-free: 866-261-1274mdscanada@mds.mennonite.net

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