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Dear friends,In late 1991 the Rev. Dr. Wallace Schulz, former Associate Speaker of The Lutheran Hour radio broadcast, and his family were sent to Riga, Latvia, to start broadcasting The Lutheran Hour in former communist countries in Eastern Europe. Early the next year, my wife and I had the opportunity to participate in Lutheran Hour Ministries' volunteer program in Riga. Photo: David Kaphingst, Thrivent Financial for Lutherans While there in Riga the idea of how to provide spiritual help and humanitarian aid to hungry souls and bodies resulted in the formation of the Orphan Grain Train. Since then, with God's blessing and a generous outpouring of time, talent and contributions, Orphan Grain Train has become a hands-on mission project--a national network with regional divisions across the country organized to get necessary help to the endless requests for food, clothing, medical supplies, and Christian-centered literature to Riga, Latvia, and other areas where calamities occur. Volunteers
sort and pack the donated items in our warehouses
across the US Contributors donate money to ship the precious cargos
of hope where most needed. (Seven dollars sponsors
the shipment of one apple box of aid!) Volunteers at the other end
of the journey place these gifts of love into the hands of needy
people. We believe that through Christ there is great hope embodied
in the efforts of Orphan Grain Train. Read what is going on! Pray
for it! Join
us! Click here to read a transcript of President Wilke's 2006 Orphan Grain Train Convention presentation. | 
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More than 1,000
semi-trailer truckloads of food, clothing, medical supplies, and
religious materials have been sent to over 40 countries and several
disaster areas in the U.S. since 1992. All of this is done by
volunteers and individual contributors--people who are thankful
for their blessings and want to provide a blessing to someone
they will probably never see this side of heaven.
