Summerland Public School Tours and Volunteers in Norfolk
Summerland Public School from Ewing, Nebraska toured and volunteered at Orphan Grain Train Norfolk on Friday, May 15. The group packed two pallets of stuffed animals. Thank you, Summerland students and staff for visiting us last week and completing all those boxes.
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Christ Lutheran Norfolk Volunteers in a Big Way
Christ Lutheran School’s older students volunteered at Orphan Grain Train Servant Center Norfolk on Wednesday, May 13. The very well-orchestrated group packed 11 pallets of hygiene kits, school kits, and quilts and blankets. A few of the students made hygiene kits, school kits and teacher kits, while others packed kits that were already made. In…
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Immanuel Columbus Assembles Kits for OGT Norfolk
Immanuel Lutheran School 5th grade students, teachers and parents visited Orphan Grain Train Norfolk in late April. There were 19 wonderful students who put together 560 hygiene kits. That’s two pallets of kits, 35 boxes per pallet with eight kits per box. Amazing job! Thank you, for taking the time to travel to Norfolk and…
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Christ Lutheran Columbus Students Visit OGT Norfolk
These six young ladies from Christ Lutheran School in Columbus, Nebraska visited Orphan Grain Train Servant Center in Norfolk. Their April visit had them touring the warehouse and volunteering a few hours of time to pack quilts and blankets. Thank you, ladies for your visit, and your busy hands that folded and packed bedding and…
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Norfolk Fourth Grade Leadership Students Volunteer with Gusto
In late March, Norfolk Public Schools 4th grade Leadership group and instructors visited Orphan Grain Train Norfolk. This wonderful group of students toured the Servant Center and then went to work sorting and packing. Thank you, future leaders and servants for spending your day with us and volunteering your time. Whoever wants to become great…
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Farm Bureau Credit Union Volunteer at OGT Norfolk
In April, fourteen Farm Bureau Credit Union employees from all around the Midwest visited Orphan Grain Train Norfolk. The group toured the central office and the Servant Center before going into the packing room to sort and pack three bunkers of bedding, linens and blankets. Thank you, Farm Bureau employees for making OGT one of…
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Fantastic Students Lend a Hand at OGT Norfolk
A group of 6th, 7th and 8th grade students and their leader, Pastor Fittje, from St. John’s Lutheran School in Columbus spent the day with Orphan Grain Train Norfolk last week. What a fantastic group! Pastor Fittje led this group in their eagerness for folding fitted sheets.  Thank you, for volunteering at OGT Norfolk…
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Peanut Butter for the Philippines!
Orphan Grain Train Norfolk’s container to Ryan Tormentar and Christian Mission Baptist Church in Negros Occidental, Philippines reached its destination safely. These are photos that were shared with OGT Norfolk. There were ten cases of peanut butter on this load, and the food was very well received. The Philippines has experienced several super Typhoons that…
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MN North on the Road Picking Up and Delivering
Orphan Grain Train Minnesota North’s Gary Geske was on the road again. Early Monday morning, April 20th, he was at OGT Norfolk with four pallets of hygiene kits, quilts and clothing that were gathered by Detroit Lakes’ Sheri Adkins and Sonya Gunderson. Gunderson and her husband Myron are ambassadors for Ysleta Lutheran Mission Care. Orphan…
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