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. [...]
Friday, January 20, 2012
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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 [...]
Wednesday, July 20, 2011
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By Kim Plummer Krull The day after one Mercy Medical Team (MMT) returned from leading first-ever, much-needed diabetes education seminars requested by the India Evangelical Lutheran Church, another group of quickly organized medical volunteers headed to Haiti to answer an urgent plea to treat a deadly cholera outbreak. “This is a small team we quickly [...]
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 [...]
Friday, May 20, 2011
by LCMS World Relief and Human Care More than medicine. That’s what Sharon Thomas says she shares each time she takes part in an LCMS World Relief and Human Care Mercy Medical Team (MMT). When people in some of the world’s poorest overseas communities ask the registered nurse and member of Immanuel Lutheran Church, Belvidere, [...]
Tuesday, March 15, 2011
Thanking concerned volunteers for their many offers of service in Japan, Life and Health Ministries Director Maggie Karner says that the LCMS response to Friday’s deadly earthquake and tsunami differs from the Synod’s work after disasters in developing countries but likely will be needed for the “long haul” of recovery and rebuilding. Unlike Indonesia and [...]
Friday, November 5, 2010
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Nov. 5, 2010 When a 60-foot shipping container filled with much needed medical equipment arrived at the Malagasy Lutheran Hospital in Madagascar, “it was just like Christmas,” says Rev. Jeffrey Kuddes. “Maybe some people would look at some of the equipment and think it looked old and used, but for the Malagasy people, it was [...]
Tuesday, October 26, 2010
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To help fight the spread of deadly cholera, LCMS World Relief and Human Care (WR-HC) awarded a $5,000 grant to the Evangelical Lutheran Church of Haiti (ELCH) to buy urgently needed sanitation supplies and bottled water. The grant followed an urgent request from ELCH President Rev. Marky Kessa and was issued one day after a [...]
Saturday, August 21, 2010
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Scarlet Holcombe, a pharmacist who serves as WR-HC’s Health Ministries coordinator, speaks about the need for clergy and pharmacists on upcoming Mercy Medical Team trips to Madagascar and Kenya, in this KFUO radio interview. KFUO Interview with Scarlett Holcombe Since 2006, Mercy Medical Teams (MMT) of health care volunteers have treated more than 10,000 needy [...]
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,” [...]
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Monday, August 27, 2012
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