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Lutherans plan response to East Africa drought crisis

In response to the life-threatening drought in East Africa, the Evangelical Lutheran Church in Kenya (ELCK) is making plans with a local relief agency and the Kenyan government to participate in relief efforts for hard-hit Somali refugees. After a telephone conversation with Rev. John Halakhe, ELCK general secretary, on July 26, Rev. John A. Fale, [...]

Answering Calls for Help in India and Haiti

By Kim Plummer Krull The day after one Mercy Medical Team (MMT) returned from leading first-ever, much-needed diabetes education seminars requested by the India Evangelical Lutheran Church, another group of quickly organized medical volunteers headed to Haiti to answer an urgent plea to treat a deadly cholera outbreak. “This is a small team we quickly [...]

Mercy Medical Teams Provide Care – and Hope – in Haiti, Kenya

On her third Mercy Medical Team (MMT) trip to Haiti in April, emergency room nurse Michelle Ritchie says the streets were busy, businesses were open and children – some missing arms or legs – were back in school and playing on the street. “We’re starting to see some improvement in Jacmel, which is heartening,” says [...]

Lutherans deliver ‘care and prayer’ to flooded families

It’s been about two weeks since three families — some of the thousands of flood evacuees forced out of their Minot, N.D., houses by the swollen Souris River — moved into campers parked near the home of Rev. Arie Bertsch. Another couple — members of St. Paul Lutheran Church, where Bertsch is pastor — continues [...]