Deaconess Grace Rao, director of LCMS Deaconess Ministry, and Deaconess Tiffany Manor, staff with Lutheran Church Charities, talk about what a deaconesses is and what she does. The deaconesses also share about their recent trip to Liberia, Africa, providing training and teaching about opportunities for women to serve in the church as deaconesses. [Pictured above, [...]
Concordia Publishing House’s 2013 vacation Bible school program includes an offering opportunity for “Ready Now: Disaster Response Fund,” which enables the LCMS to respond quickly to those who are suffering in the wake of a disaster. “Ready Now” funds are used to provide food and water, and survival and shelter kits to those whose lives [...]
Please pray for all the Lutheran leaders from The Lutheran Church—Missouri Synod (LCMS), Lutheran World Relief (LWR), Baltimore, Md., and others from throughout the United States, Nigeria, Kenya, Tanzania and Mali who are meeting with members of Congress today to encourage ongoing support for the fight to end malaria deaths in Africa by 2015; commit [...]
LCMS ministry leaders have assured Lutheran leaders in Madagascar of disaster response assistance if such help is needed after Cyclone Giovanna pounded the African island nation Feb. 14. As damage assessments continue, at least 16 people are reported killed and more than 10,000 forced from their homes. Dr. Mike Rodewald, regional director for Africa with [...]
The Rev. Jeffrey Kuddes is a Lutheran Church–Missouri Synod (LCMS) pastor of nearly 20 years who has developed an ongoing love for the people of Madagascar, a country 10,000 miles from his southeast Minnesota home. Kuddes currently serves a dual-parish, Trinity Evangelical Lutheran in Waltham, Minn., and St. Paul’s Evangelical Lutheran in Hollandale, Minn. In [...]
The January edition of The Lutheran Witness addresses the barrage of natural disasters that occurred in 2011, highlighting the ways in which The Lutheran Church—Missouri Synod (LCMS) responded through works of mercy. Get a firsthand look at how the generous donations of LCMS members have made it possible to show Christ’s love to those suffering [...]
A severe drought and resulting famine has gripped the Horn of Africa since mid-summer. The worst drought in 60 years has caused a severe food crisis in and beyond the borders of Somalia, Ethiopia and Kenya. For the first time in 30 years, the United Nations officially declared a state of famine in southern Somalia [...]
By Kim Plummer Krull After seeing firsthand the suffering as starving Somalis pour into the Dadaab refugee camps, Dr. Walter Obare, bishop of the Evangelical Lutheran Church in Kenya (ELCK), is requesting additional financial support to meet urgent needs as the deadly famine spreads in East Africa. Obare described how some 1,500 refugees enter the [...]
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, [...]
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 [...]
Thursday, February 7, 2013
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