At least one church and a pastor’s home are among the many flood casualties caused by torrential rains that pummeled northern Illinois and southern Wisconsin July 23-24. In south Wisconsin, the home of Rev. Roger Heintz, pastor of Brookfield Lutheran Church, flooded, causing substantial property damage. When contacted by LCMS World Relief and Human Care [...]
Saturday, July 24, 2010
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Residents in low-lying areas of Monticello, Iowa, were being evacuated as water from a massive dam break headed their way July 24. “We [the town] would rather be over-prepared than under-prepared,” Rev. Reed Stockman, pastor of St. John Lutheran Church, told LCMS World Relief and Human Care (WR-HC). Since the church sits atop a hill, [...]
Friday, July 23, 2010
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The Lutheran Church—Missouri Synod will continue to reach out with mercy even in the wake of the church body’s restructuring, said Rev. Matthew C. Harrison, the newly elected LCMS president. “While restructuring mandates many changes for our church and we don’t know exactly what will happen, LCMS World Relief and Human Care is still here,” [...]
Tuesday, July 20, 2010
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The most recent Mercy Medical Team (MMT) to serve in Kenya treated more than 2,000 patients and led a new home-based care training program to equip deaconesses to help ailing Africans with physical as well as spiritual needs. “Home-based care is very important in Kenya and other African countries where AIDS is a huge problem,” [...]
Tuesday, July 20, 2010
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Since he became the first director of Disaster Response in 2006, Rev. Glenn Merritt has helped church workers throughout the United States improve their ability to serve congregations and communities when calamity strikes. On June 17-18, Merritt led LCMS World Relief and Human Care’s (WR-HC) first international disaster preparedness training in Nairobi, Kenya. Twenty-six pastors [...]
Tuesday, July 20, 2010
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As anticipated, attempts are being made to use taxpayer dollars to fund abortions in insurance programs created under the so-called “health care reform law.” To date, programs in Pennsylvania and New Mexico have been approved by the Obama administration, although both subsequently underwent changes. Despite claims last summer by President Obama that the health care [...]
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Monday, July 26, 2010
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