Great Abundance of Food Shared with OGT MO-IL to Share with Others
These donations of food and home products came from the Lutheran Women in Missions League (LWML) St. Louis West zone rally, held at Webster Gardens Lutheran Church, and from the church’s Seniors Connect group. Every week, the Orphan Grain Train Missouri Illinois branch supplies four local Lutheran Church food pantries with food and needed items…
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Louisiana Service Groups Gather to Support for Food Insecurity
It has been a busy two weeks in many of the parishes of New Orleans as community groups gathered to put food boxes together and then distributed the boxes to people in need. Full distributions of boxes containing rice, beans, canned tuna, onions, cucumbers, apples, cabbage and potatoes were shared with individuals, pantries and faith-based…
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OGT Highland Lakes Delivers Aid to Local Organizations
In September, Orphan Grain Train Highland Lakes in Buchanan Dam, Texas delivered blankets, and men’s, women’s and children’s coats to four locations in the area: Pittsburg Baptist Church in Llano, First Baptist Church in Kingsland, Kingland Sharing the Harvest in Kingland and Bertram Community Cupboard in Bertram. They also shared two boxes of shoes with…
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Wisconsin Sends Potatoes to Multiple States and Recipients
Orphan Grain Train Wisconsin delivered several loads of potatoes to Texas, Kentucky, South Dakota and Louisiana. In the fall, the branch shared 20,000 to 40,000 pounds of potatoes with each recipient-either the full load or half of the load. Photos are of an early September delivery that went to Latin American Lutheran Mission in Laredo,…
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OGT Fencing Crew Completes Work in Hyannis
The Orphan Grain Train fencing crew completed their initial fencing project in Hyannis, Nebraska this first week of October. Dave Meyer, Walt Rosenbaum, Mike Jundt, Dale Martin and DeWayne Erickson joined this 8th trip. On October 12th, the crew will be moving their equipment to a new ranch in the Hyannis area. Currently there are…
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Grand Island Sends to Ysleta
Orphan Grain Train Central Nebraska filled a dry van trailer with items to be shared with Ysleta Lutheran Mission Human Care and the people in the El Paso, Texas area. This was a load that required a plan for secure packing: one piano, 29 church pews, 64 pieces of furniture and ten bicycles. In addition,…
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Christian Appalachian Project Receives Assistance from New England
Orphan Grain Train Announces Response Assistance Shipment Volunteers for the Orphan Grain Train’s (OGT) New England Branch, located at 33 South Main St. in Terryville, Ct. loaded a 53-foot container of needed items on Sept. 21 to help with poverty and storm damage recovery in a multi-state area including North Carolina, Tennessee, Kentucky, Texas, West…
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Six and a Half Miles and Counting in Hyannis
Six and a half miles of new fencing and, in the midst of trip seven, Orphan Grain Train fencing volunteers – Dave Meyer, Walt Rosenbaum, Mike Jundt and DeWayne Erickson – are spending the week pulling out the bad and putting in the new in Hyannis, Nebraska. We are always grateful for beautiful weather that…
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More Hedge Posts for Hyannis
Orphan Grain Train’s Logistics Director, Brent Kummer, delivered another load of 2,400 hedge posts to Hyannis, Nebraska today, Sept. 3rd. Ranchers were there ready to offload the posts onto their trailers. The posts will be used to replace the many miles of fencing that were destroyed in March from the largest fires in Nebraska history.
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