Regional Divisions
North Dakota Branch 2010 Update
http://ogt.org/images/uploads/ORPHAN_GRAIN_TRAIN_North_Dakota_Branch.pdf
Fall 2007
From Harold Gessner:
Our volunteer workers meet each Friday at the warehouse and process used clothing. We have been delivering used clothing to contacts domestically as well as those in Liberia, Africa. A Christian congregation on the Spirit Lake reservation has been the recipient of clothing for some time.
A few weeks ago, Northwood, N.D. was hit by a tornado which did damage to the entire village of 1,200 people. All homes were damaged from minimal to completely destroyed. A call for quilts came to us from Lutheran Disaster Response.
Tornado damage in Northwood, N.D. Photos by Avonne Gessner.
We answered the call with some 300 quilts and with the help of local volunteers we drove from house to house delivering them. Many volunteers have entered the town and have cleared debris, broken trees, tossed about automobiles, houses and the like. Restoration is well in progress.
Volunteers distributing quilts.
Distributing quilts.
It warmed my heart to visit our local hospital, upon request, to witness and speak to a group of long-term residents in wheel chairs who gathered to put together sewing kits to be distributed to needy women in Liberia.
A new facility for the loading of containers in Minot, 80 miles from our Bottineau warehouse, will permit us to place our containers on rail and ship to the east and west coasts.
Our prayer is that all things work together for the good of the Kingdom.
ND-OGT Harold Gessner.