photo: Mrs. Carmen Olivares, oldest member of El Buen Pastor Lutheran Church, cleaning up following storms in McAllen, Texas Late Thursday evening, devastating storms, including severe hail, slammed unexpectedly into the town of McAllen, Texas. Rev. Ruben Dominguez, pastor of El Buen Pastor Lutheran Church in McAllen, said the parsonage received moderate damage. The storm broke [...]
Thursday, March 29, 2012
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“We need hundreds of volunteers each week, not just dozens.” This was one of the sentiments of Tricia Major, member of Our Savior Lutheran Church (Louisville, KY – Indiana District) and also an integral part of the Indiana District’s Lutheran Early Response Team. Tricia and many others have been helping to coordinate volunteer efforts in [...]
Thursday, March 29, 2012
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Budding spring flowers bring thoughts of hope, but in our secular society we often hear people speak of hope when the phrase ‘wishful thinking’ would be more accurate. Lutheran parish nurses can, and do, bring real and lasting Christ-filled hope to their congregations and communities. This of the Parish Nurse Newsletter examines ways that parish [...]
Tuesday, March 27, 2012
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Photo: Rev. Omar Kinas, (pictured here with his family) a missionary of the Evangelical Lutheran Church of Argentina, currently serves as mercy project manager and missionary in Chile. LCMS disaster-response officials are headed to Chile this week after Sunday’s magnitude-7.1 earthquake struck near Talca, a city of more than 200,000 people. Our partner church, the [...]
Thursday, March 22, 2012
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In response to the earthquake in central Mexico March 20, the LCMS established telephone and email contact March 21 with President Alvaro Lopez of the Lutheran Synod of Mexico, a partner church of The Lutheran Church–Missouri Synod. Lopez told the Rev. Carlos Hernandez that he (Lopez) continues to receive calls from all over the world, [...]
Wednesday, March 21, 2012
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Photo: A firefighter rests next to part of the structure of a bridge that fell over a public bus during an earthquake, in Mexico City, Tuesday March 20, 2012. A strong, long earthquake with epicenter in Guerrero state shook central southern Mexico on Tuesday, swaying buildings in Mexico City and sending frightened workers and residents into [...]
Wednesday, March 21, 2012
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We give thanks to God for the compassion and dedication of the students at Trinity Lutheran Christian School in Amarillo, Texas, who marched around the Amarillo Zoo on March 9, and raised more than $1,200 for tornado victims. Their funds will enable our Synod’s disaster response ministry to support local congregational relief efforts for recent [...]
Wednesday, March 21, 2012
Strong backs and arms plus volunteers with carpentry and electrical skills are much needed to help put the “hope” in Hope Village, the volunteer center that opens April 1 at Our Savior Lutheran Church, Minot, N.D., to assist families whose homes were flooded nearly a year ago. Most of the more than 4,100 families whose [...]
Tuesday, March 20, 2012
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Photo: A member of the Confessional Lutheran Church of Chile, right, visits with a woman whose home was damaged by the earthquake and offers “Strength for Hard Times” pamphlets provided by Lutheran Hour Ministries. When an 8.8 magnitude earthquake shook Chile on Feb. 27, 2010, members of [...]
Friday, March 16, 2012
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Firemen help clear debris from a yard on Noble Street in the Huron Farms area, Friday, March 16, 2012, after a tornado hit Dexter, Mich., Thursday evening. (AP Photo/AnnAbor.Com, Angela J. Cesere) Leaders of the LCMS disaster response ministry are in touch with two LCMS congregations in northwest Ann Arbor, Mich., — St. Paul Lutheran [...]
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Friday, March 30, 2012
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