Browsing Category: Disaster Relief

Aid for Tornado Victims

Nancy Helmke, coordinator for OGT’s Ohio Collection Center in Napoleon has a personal connection to the March 14 – F3 tornado that ripped through Lakeview and 3 miles away at Indian Lake, OH. Nancy’s sister Peg and her husband Doug Dammann live in Lakeview, their brick home had very little damage yet all their neighbor’s…

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Relief for Texas Ranchers

Texas is facing its largest wildfire in history which has scorched everything in its path.  High temperatures and strong winds are feeding the fire that has burned over 1,700 square miles in the Panhandle.  More then 500 structures are gone and thousands of livestock have perished.  OGT is working on ways to help, starting with…

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Many Families in Lahaina Will Be Blessed By Aid

In Response to the generous donations given along with Thrivent’s match for Giving Tuesday last November, OGT’s shipment of food and aid has arrived in Maui for fire victims. A container filled with 128,304 Mercy Meals, generators, white rice, hygiene supplies and scrub buckets were off loaded by OGT’s Donor Advising Ralph Schmidt at Emmanuel…

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Aid Continues in Maui

OGT’s Director of Donor Advising Ralp Schmidt continues to work with Emmanuel Lutheran church in Maui with relief efforts for fire victims. Ralph was able to order locally from Costco $10,000.00 worth of infant, children’s and adult diapers which are in huge demand for families. The need changes from week to week for the hundreds…

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