Month:  November 2022

Aid and Rice Meals Will Help Many in Liberia

Pastor Kollie with Lutheran AID Ministries in Liberia is anxiously waiting for the arrival of 72,280 fortified rice meals, blankets, Bibles, pews, sleeping mats, hygiene & medical supplies and other needed aid from Wisconsin Branch in Westfield. Thank you, Wisconsin donors and volunteers, for showing the love of Christ to many in Liberia.

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113 School and Teacher Kits Assembled

LWML members from St. Paul’s Lutheran Church in Cambridge, NE assembled 113 school kits/teacher kits for OGT. Earlier in the year they donated 62 hygiene kits to OGT. Both projects were funded with Thrivent Action Teams and donated items from the congregation. All were delivered to OGT’s Central Nebraska Branch in Grand Island. Thank you,…

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Annual Fundraiser Helps Give Back

Every October, northeast Department store chain, Boscov’s, provides local charities a fundraising opportunity by encouraging the sale of $5 discount passes to their annual one-day fall sale. In our 7th year of offering these passes, we were thrilled to learn volunteers raised over $2,300.  Combined with a $2,000 matching offer, our total just topped $4,300. To…

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556 Boxes of Aid Delivered to the Navajo Nation

The Phoenix Branch delivered 556 boxes of clothing and supplies to the Toba City Assembly Church on the Navajo Nation. The Navajo Nation is a Native American Reservation that occupies portions of NE Arizona, NW New Mexico and SE Utah and covers roughly 17,544,500 acres. The Navajo Nation is the largest land area held by…

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Helping Families Devastated by Hurrincane in Florida

Ohio Collection Center delivered blankets, cleaning supplies, hygiene kits, nearly 100 5-gallon buckets, work gloves and other items to North American Lutheran Disaster in Coldwell, OH. The items were then transported to Ft. Myers region in Florida. Thank you, Ohio donors and volunteers, for helping families devastated in Florida.

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Another Air-Cargo Shipment For Ukraine Loaded

Norfolk warehouse loaded another air-cargo shipment for Ukraine. The shipment contains blankets, sleeping mats, 24 beds with mattresses, diapers, hygiene kits, and other aid for Smolin Ministries. The 40-foot container was trucked to New York where Flexport will arrange its air shipment to Ukraine. Thank you, OGT supporters and volunteers, for making these much-needed Ukraine…

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