Mennonite Disaster Service

Ministry born out of Katrina

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 worker for the Mennonite Central Committee.

Over the two years he served with MCC, he was a translator and an adviser for many Vietnamese people.

“I got attached to this place,” he said.

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September 14, 2015

Restoring a way of life after Katrina

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 only 4 years old then,” said Ancar, who lives now in a home repaired by Mennonite Disaster Service volunteers.

One of those volunteers was the girl’s father. When he returned home after . . .

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September 8, 2015
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