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 [...]
Friday, November 16, 2012
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While traveling to New Jersey to help with Superstorm Sandy relief, the Rev. Carlos Hernandez, director of Church and Community Development with the LCMS Office of National Mission, got a call from a Guatemalan pastor about another disaster Hernandez had not yet heard about. More than a week later, many in the United States may [...]
Wednesday, September 5, 2012
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Even as the remnant of Hurricane Isaac brought heavy rainfall and strong wind to the East Coast late Tuesday, Sept. 4, the LCMS continued to take stock of its damages and reach out with mercy to those affected. At Concordia College Alabama in Selma, Ala., two dormitories had minor flooding and 70 students were relocated [...]
Wednesday, August 29, 2012
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LCMS Disaster Response is urging volunteers to allow emergency responders time to do their jobs before traveling to the Gulf Coast to help with relief efforts. “It is vital to allow emergency responders such as medics, firemen and police the time they need to safely secure an area,” said the Rev. Dr. Edward O. Grimenstein, [...]
Wednesday, August 29, 2012
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HURRICANE ISAAC MAKES LANDFALL ALONG GULF COAST As news regarding Hurricane Isaac’s impact on the island of Hispaniola (Haiti and the Dominican Republic), and now the storm’s landfall in New Orleans and the Gulf Coast continues to unfold, The Lutheran Church—Missouri Synod’s (LCMS) Mercy Operations Group is closely monitoring the storm’s effect on specific places [...]
Monday, August 27, 2012
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The Lutheran Church—Missouri Synod released two grants totaling $35,000 on Monday, Aug. 27, to assist relief efforts in Haiti and the Dominican Republic following Tropical Storm Isaac, which struck the island nations Aug. 25. “These two grants of the LCMS are incredibly vital for the people of Haiti and the Dominican Republic,” said the Rev. [...]
Sunday, August 26, 2012
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Residents wade through a street that flooded due to Tropical Storm Isaac in Port-au-Prince, Haiti, Saturday, Aug. 25, 2012. Tropical Storm Isaac swept across Haiti’s southern peninsula early Saturday, dousing a capital city prone to flooding and adding to the misery of a poor nation still trying to recover from the 2010 earthquake. (AP Photo/Dieu [...]
Friday, August 24, 2012
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Please pray for the Caribbean nations, international partner church members, LCMS members and all those residing in the path of Tropical Storm Isaac —currently passing over Cuba after dousing Haiti.
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, [...]
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Wednesday, January 16, 2013
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