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 [...]
Friday, November 11, 2011
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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 [...]
Friday, July 29, 2011
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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, [...]
Tuesday, July 19, 2011
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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 [...]
Wednesday, January 5, 2011
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LCMS World Relief and Human Care’s Hans Springer talks about meeting young Kenyans who are now connected with caring families and educational support through the 1001 Orphans program. Sponsors can dramatically impact a child’s life for $400 a year Springer says in this December 2010 interview with KFUO radio. Dec 15, 2010 – KFUO interviews [...]
Tuesday, July 20, 2010
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The most recent Mercy Medical Team (MMT) to serve in Kenya treated more than 2,000 patients and led a new home-based care training program to equip deaconesses to help ailing Africans with physical as well as spiritual needs. “Home-based care is very important in Kenya and other African countries where AIDS is a huge problem,” [...]
Tuesday, July 20, 2010
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Since he became the first director of Disaster Response in 2006, Rev. Glenn Merritt has helped church workers throughout the United States improve their ability to serve congregations and communities when calamity strikes. On June 17-18, Merritt led LCMS World Relief and Human Care’s (WR-HC) first international disaster preparedness training in Nairobi, Kenya. Twenty-six pastors [...]
Wednesday, June 24, 2009
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June 24, 2009 Among the highlights of the seventh and most recent Mercy Medical Team (MMT) trek to Kenya were treating Kenyans in a rural area where medical care is rare and meeting a young woman who was one of the first orphans assisted through LCMS World Relief and Human Care. Eleven volunteers provided care [...]
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Tuesday, November 27, 2012
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