Mercy Medical Teams Provide Care – and Hope – in Haiti, Kenya
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...
View ArticleLutherans plan response to East Africa drought crisis
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...
View ArticleObare on East Africa famine: ‘We need to save lives’
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...
View ArticleKenya church meets needs in wake of East Africa drought
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...
View ArticleJanuary’s The Lutheran Witness focuses on LCMS disaster response efforts in 2011
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...
View ArticleLCMS Mercy Medical Team to Madagascar experience through the eyes of team...
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...
View ArticleLCMS reaches out after Madagascar cyclone
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...
View ArticleLutheran leaders from U.S., Africa advocating on Capitol Hill today for the...
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,...
View ArticleCPH’s 2013 VBS includes offering “Ready Now” for LCMS Disaster Response
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...
View ArticleDeaconesses Grace Rao, Tiffany Manor talk on recent training events in...
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...
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