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What if a disaster happened today?
How can you be Lutheran Disaster Response?

Lutheran volunteers from Washington StateWhen disaster strikes in your community, the local Lutherans are the first form of Lutheran Disaster Response.  Every time Lutherans act in service to their neighbors in need following a disaster, they are being Lutheran Disaster Response.   [more]


Lutheran Disaster Response is a collaborative ministry of the Evangelical Lutheran Church in America (ELCA) and The Lutheran Church-Missouri Synod (LCMS).  We seek to demonstrate Christ's compassion for people by promoting hope, healing, and wholeness for disaster survivors.

Severe spring weather continues
Debris from homes that were gutted after record flooding in the Nashville, Tenn. area.  Photo credit:  FEMA/Bahamonde

Severe storms, flooding and tornadoes have impacted nearly half the country this spring.   [more]

Also -- Update on the Gulf of Mexico oil spill   [more]