As Thanksgiving nears and families plan big holiday menus, members of Grace Lutheran Church discovered a different concern in their Penn Hills, Pa., community – hunger and malnutrition. “One of the most critical needs [Grace members] repeatedly heard, due in part to the depressed economy, is a need for food and the problem of undernourishment [...]
Friday, November 19, 2010
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Plans are in the works to send a shipment of 300 water filters to Haiti next week, the first of a total 1,360 filters purchased by LCMS World Relief and Human Care (WR-HC) and the initial step in a new effort to join forces with partners as diverse as a water filter company with Lutheran [...]
Tuesday, November 16, 2010
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As the cholera outbreak grows ever more deadly, Willy Gaspar, LCMS World Relief and Human Care projects manager in Haiti, is working with Lutheran partners in the neighboring Dominican Republic to buy desperately needed medicines and water filters to distribute through Haitian Lutheran congregations into some of the country’s hardest-hit communities. “The needs are extremely [...]
Friday, November 5, 2010
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Nov. 5, 2010 When a 60-foot shipping container filled with much needed medical equipment arrived at the Malagasy Lutheran Hospital in Madagascar, “it was just like Christmas,” says Rev. Jeffrey Kuddes. “Maybe some people would look at some of the equipment and think it looked old and used, but for the Malagasy people, it was [...]
Wednesday, November 3, 2010
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As a possible hurricane heads toward Haiti, LCMS World Relief and Human Care’s Rev. Glenn F. Merritt asks for prayers for so many vulnerable people living in flimsy tents and makeshift shelters. “The rains we saw yesterday in the Dominican Republic are enough to make me worry for the safety and security of our friends [...]
Tuesday, November 2, 2010
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After members of Faith Lutheran Church participated in a workshop to better tune into needs in their Groton, Conn., neighborhood, the congregation started a food kitchen that now serves more than 75 families weekly. Two years later, Faith hosted another “Planting Gospel Seeds While Serving Human Needs” training session to help other New England District [...]
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Monday, November 22, 2010
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