Disaster Relief

OGT is assisting families in Louisiana that had homes destroyed by hurricane Ida. People of three different Louisiana parishes were the recipients of food, tools, wheel barrels, hygiene items, and cleaning products that arrived in an OGT reefer in Ba...

OGT purchased and arranged for 34 bales (51,000 pounds) of hay to be trucked to ranchers in Montana. Cattle are being sold in high numbers as extreme drought is widespread throughout the state. Many of the crops have low yields to no production which...

In August OGT’s Wisconsin Branch volunteers loaded 990 pounds of various foods, 244 Kids Against Hunger meals, Bibles, hymnals, quilts, household items, and clothes for Laredo, Texas. Latin American Lutheran Mission (LALM) received all the food and...

‘Thank you’ to everyone for your support and prayers for OGT to get aid to Haiti. Today we have a truck being loaded with a water purification system, generator, hygiene kits, medical supplies, tarps and other aid. Volunteers packed medical suppl...

Ohio Collection Center volunteers in Napoleon recently loaded for two different missions. Bedding, clothing, furniture, household items and toys were delivered to Kentucky Mission in Beattyville, KY. They also loaded bedding, clothing, household item...

OGT continues to assist families in Texas still struggling with broken pipe damages from the winter storm. Norfolk warehouse volunteers loaded 168 cases of bottled water, $9,548.28 of purchased plumbing supplies and wheelbarrows for Fuller Center- Di...

OGT’s California-Arizona-Nevada Collection Center delivered goods to Lutheran Border Concerns Ministry and 1000 Building Generations. They assist families along the southern California border into Mexico....

Requests from around the world for much needed Mercy Meals has increased tremendously because of the pandemic. COVID caused restrictions on group gatherings, which meant no packing events, which meant no food to feed the hungry. OGT’s Norfolk wareh...

Orphan Grain Train has received pleas for help from Texas and is responding with disaster relief efforts.  Hundreds of families either have no running water or have boil water advisories which it could be weeks before water supply is restored.   M...