Inspired by Jesus, Brethren Disaster Ministries focuses on rebuilding homes, caring for children, and providing international relief by engaging our volunteers, supporters, and partners to serve communities recovering from disaster.

BDM Updates

Volunteers work through winter in Upstate New York
March 15, 2013
Many dedicated souls have been braving blustery winter weather in Binghamton and Prattsville, New York, the sites of two ongoing Brethren Disaster Ministries recovery projects.

Director of Department of Homeland Security’s Center for Faith-based and Neighborhood Partnerships visits BDM site
March 14, 2013
Director of Department of Homeland Security’s Center for Faith-based and Neighborhood Partnerships visits BDM site

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Children’s Disaster Services cares for children in shelters in New Jersey and New York
(November 8, 2012)
Two teams of volunteers from Children’s Disaster Services (CDS) are at work caring for children in shelters in New York and New Jersey. The teams have set up child care centers in a shelter at Nassau Community College in Garden City, N.Y., and in a new shelter that just opened in Tuckerton, N.J.
New Windsor center ships $600,000 of relief goods to storm survivors on behalf of CWS
(November 6, 2012)
Shipments of relief materials have been heading out from warehouses at the Brethren Service Center in New Windsor, Md., to Hurricane Sandy survivors. The shipments--amounting to $605,152 worth of relief--are made on behalf of humanitarian organization Church World Service (CWS), a coalition of Christian denominations and nonprofit agencies.
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BDM in the news

Huntsville TV feature

TV news story on BDM’s work in Alabama


Roanoke Times article on rebuilding work in Pulaski, Virginia


McDonnell visits Pulaski BDM house

(L to R) Samuel Crisps and Virginia governor Bob McDonnell in front of a house rebuilt by Brethren Disaster Ministry volunteers. Photo by WSLS10.

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Urgent needs

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Volunteers needed June 2-8 in Holton, Ind. Contact the BDM office for more information.

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