Nearly three months after Superstorm Sandy, eight elderly, single women struggling to resume their lives along the hard-hit New Jersey Shore were among those offered a helping hand with debris and tree removal by Shepherd’s Heart Ministry. “All the women had limited access to help, financial or otherwise,” said David Hildebrandt, Sandy relief coordinator for [...]
Thursday, January 31, 2013
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Marking the 40th anniversary of the Roe v. Wade Supreme Court decision legalizing abortion for any reason, more than 240 Lutherans — adults and youth from coast to coast — gathered at the first-ever LCMS Life Conference Jan. 25-26 at the Hyatt Regency Crystal City Hotel here. LCMS Life Ministries organized the Synod convention-mandated conference, [...]
Thursday, January 31, 2013
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More than 350 people from across the nation donned neon-green hats reading “March for Life with the LCMS,” braving snow and freezing temperatures for the national “March for Life” here Jan. 25. A record 500,000 are estimated to have participated in the annual march — in a line stretching from the National Mall to the [...]
Friday, January 4, 2013
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Will Luther, Moses and Isaiah be at school, too? Callers didn’t necessarily ask about the K-9 Parish Comfort Dogs by their individual names, but that’s who they meant when they contacted Sandy Hook Elementary School as classes prepared to resume on Thursday, Jan. 3, for the first time since the horrific shootings in Newtown, Conn. [...]
Wednesday, December 19, 2012
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Abbi, Barnabas, Chewie, Hannah, Maggie, Ruthie, Luther, Prince and Shami — the nine four-legged disaster-response workers who arrived in Newtown, Conn., on Saturday, Dec. 15, to assist the shaken residents — “have brought peace and comfort everywhere they have gone,” according to the Rev. Glenn F. Merritt, director of LCMS Disaster Response. Indeed, the community — [...]
Tuesday, July 17, 2012
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Photo: This family includes a teen who was recently placed with them through foster care, another teen who has been adopted by the foster parents and a third who is a birth child. The family is pictured during a recent visit to South Korea. Lutheran Family Services Rocky Mountains (LFS), a Recognized Ministry Organization of [...]
Tuesday, August 9, 2011
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By Kim Plummer Krull Five weeks after the sirens blasted a final evacuation warning, Amanda Mosser and coworkers at the Dakota Boys and Girls Ranch are among the thousands of Minot, N.D., area residents still living in emergency shelters, campers or with friends and family. While they deal with their own flood-damaged homes, they also [...]
Monday, April 19, 2010
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Lutheran Social Services of the South (LSS) is a Recognized Service Organization that includes Stephen Ministry as a vital component in its three children’s therapeutic treatment centers, emergency shelter and senior retirement communities throughout Texas. Stephen ministers give one-to-one, lay Christian care. They are not counselors or therapists, but trained, caring Christian friends who can [...]
Monday, April 19, 2010
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Lutheran Social Services Disaster Response (LSSDR) has been awarded a $10.7 million Social Services Block Grant (SSBG), funded by the Houston-Galveston Area Council to provide unmet needs funds for survivors of Hurricane Ike in 10 counties: Austin, Brazoria, Chambers, Fort Bend, Galveston, Liberty, Matagorda, Montgomery, Walker, and Waller. Funds from the SSBG grant will be [...]
Monday, December 14, 2009
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What do you call a procession of children, musicians, and even animals walking through the streets? On the U.S.-Mexico border in December it’s not a parade, it’s a posada. A posada is a traditional Hispanic celebration depicting Mary and Joseph’s search for lodging in Bethlehem. Children dress up as Mary and Joseph and lead a [...]
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Thursday, February 14, 2013
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