LCMS Disaster Response

A combined effort today in Concordia Missouri. When the day started, youth at Saint Paul Lutheran High were Lutheran Emergency Response Team (LERT) trained- thi...s is the first youth LERT class in the LCMS! St. Paul's Lutheran Church and School - Concordia, MO started their day with their LERT team cutting down trees at a local park and trimming trees at the local nursing home. This afternoon, the newly trained LERT youth will help with hauling and clearning. Go Concordia! #shinemissouri LCMS Disaster Response See more

In less than two weeks, LCMS Disaster Response is hosting the first ever LCMS LERT Chainsaw Games at Camp Wartburg in Waterloo IL. Designed for the experienced sawyer, this friendly competition is designed to build skills and comradery. Lodging and meals during the event are free, but space is limited. Visit https://www.lcms-lert.org/need/detail/?need_id=572640 in order to sign up.

We spent 3 days at Ms. Melinda's home!

Please keep our disaster response volunteers in your prayers over the coming weeks as they continue to respond to tornadoes across Alabama. Our teams are focused on doing the high skill jobs that most home owners and neighbors are not capable of doing. Everything we do is free of charge to home owners and done in the name of Christ.

Almighty and most merciful God, though your beloved Son Jesus Christ, You reign over the heavens and the earth. As storms rage, and the waters rise, we turn to You, asking for your mercy and protection. We pray that this hurricane will not cause injury or loss. We trust in your unfailing love and ask that, whatever befalls us, You grant us the wisdom to worship you and serve our neighbor in Your love. In Jesus name. Amen.

A special thanks to the LERT team that came from Immanuel Lutheran church in Seymour, IN to do Disaster Response work in Alabama last week! And thanks for documenting your work in this video.

Pray for your LERT teams. If you belong to a LERT team consider coming down to help. We sure could use you!

If you’re LERT trained and have a little time, we could use your help!

Our LERT volunteers at work showing the mercy of Christ to their neighbors.

Welcome to our newest LERT class! Good Shepherd Lutheran Church in Marion, IL (Southern Illinois District) hosted LERT training on October 10th. Welcome to the service world of Lutheran Early Response Training! Speaking of LERT volunteer activities, there is a great need for LERT-trained volunteers and LERT teams in Louisiana and in Southern Alabama/FL panhandle to help clean up after the recent hurricane activity. Most of the work is chainsaw operations and support though t...here are many other volunteer opportunities. Please contact: John Ketterer, DCE at (586) 945-3856 for work in the Sulphur, LA area. Rev. Ed Brashier at (205) 296-3714 for work in Southern Alabama and the Florida panhandle.

Lord, another hurricane approaches and we look to You for hope, trusting in Your providence and protection. We plead for Your mercy on behalf of those in the path of Hurricane Delta. We yield to Your will, knowing that You love this world and You work in all things as our loving Father through Jesus Christ our Lord. Amen.

Please keep Louisiana in your prayers. We have a Disaster Response Center already in place only miles from where this hurricane is predicted to hit. We have opportunities for you to serve hurricane victims in the name of Christ.

Remember, heavenly Father, all those in peril from the path of hurricane Delta. Have mercy and grant them Your saving peace. Bless the last-minute preparations of the government and relief agencies that many lives may be spared. Make Your people's confidence in Your unfailing love be a shining light among those who do not know You that they may also take refuge in Your comfort in this time of distress. We ask it all in the holy name of Jesus. Amen.

Hurricane Delta continues to pose danger to the U.S. Gulf Coast late this week, with threats of storm-surge flooding, damaging winds and heavy rainfall. Residents from the extreme upper Texas coast and Louisiana to the western Florida Panhandle should be checking frequently for important forecast updates and have their hurricane plans ready to go.