tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-39724563918337134952024-03-13T00:00:40.127-05:00Calming The StormHighlighting Disaster Response by LCMS Churches in North Texas.Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09125822925444569228noreply@blogger.comBlogger81125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3972456391833713495.post-59381890357469635202017-05-22T12:33:00.000-05:002017-05-22T12:33:03.088-05:00Second Tornado Clean Up Day in Canton,TX
As we set out for a second work day after the Van Zandt County tornadoes, the sky was threatening and the weatherman was predicting a 75% chance of rain. The Volunteer Reception Center was expecting between 500 and 600 volunteers to show up to assist residents affected by the tornadoes. Most of them did not show up.
119 Lutherans from 14 churches did show up and went to work. We Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09125822925444569228noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3972456391833713495.post-82736739958126102442017-05-12T06:41:00.000-05:002017-05-14T06:24:34.337-05:00Van Zandt County Tornado Work Day
On April 29 the seven tornados touch down in Henderson, Van Zandt, and Raines counties in East Texas leaving destruction and 4 deaths in their paths. On Saturday, May 6th, 54 people from twelve Lutheran Churches came together in the first of two scheduled work days.
Picture by Lou Jander
We work at 5 different locations. We did everything from chainsaw work and debris, to Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09125822925444569228noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3972456391833713495.post-3890684320072306082017-01-11T11:44:00.001-06:002017-01-14T07:39:40.665-06:00Four Disaster Care Volunteers Recieve The President's Volunteer Service Award
The President's Volunteer Service Award is an initiative of the Corporation for National and Community Service (CNCS) and is administered by Points of Light Foundation. Through a shared mission of inspiring more to answer the call to service, the President's Volunteer Service Award celebrates the impact we can all make in bettering our communities and our world.
The President's Volunteer Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09125822925444569228noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3972456391833713495.post-72108356786716108652017-01-05T11:59:00.001-06:002017-01-05T11:59:43.990-06:00Operation Christmas Hope is Big Success
On August 16, 2016, prolonged rainfall in the southern part of Louisiana resulted in catastrophic flooding. In September the Disaster Care Ministry worked with Lutheran Churches in North Texas to put together a work weekend and feeding event. On the way home, we discussed how there were so many children who had lost everything and were not going to have much of a Christmas. From that Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09125822925444569228noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3972456391833713495.post-62029516559883525342016-11-04T08:32:00.003-05:002016-11-04T08:32:56.992-05:00Operation Christmas Hope
In August, the Baton Rouge area of Louisiana suffered the worst flooding to occur since Hurricane Katrina. According to the Baton Rouge Chamber of Commerce, 110,000 households were significantly affected by the flooding. While the Disaster Care Ministry was working in the Baton Rouge area it became apparent that a large number of children were impacted. The prospect these children having a Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09125822925444569228noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3972456391833713495.post-44279439279856975682016-09-26T11:17:00.004-05:002016-09-26T11:17:33.949-05:00Flood Clean Up in Louisiana
Last week a group of Texans from Beautiful Savior Lutheran Arlington, Trinity Lutheran Tyler, The Summit Lutheran Aledo and The Holy Cow Smokers from Lamb of God Lutheran Flower Mound Traveled to Baton Rouge, LA to assist with Flood Recovery.
The Holy Cow Smokers stayed at Trinity Lutheran Church in Baton Rouge. This was their base of operations as they fed over 6000 mealsAnonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09125822925444569228noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3972456391833713495.post-23448179081280294392016-08-28T18:17:00.002-05:002016-08-28T18:17:39.752-05:00Buckets To Baton RougeOn August 16 prolonged rainfall in the southern part of Louisiana resulted in catastrophic flooding that submerged thousands of homes. Louisiana's governor, John Bel Edwards, called the disaster a historic, unprecedented flooding event. Rainfall Exceeded 20 inches in many parishes.
On August 20 the members of the Disaster Care Ministry at Beautiful Savior Lutheran Church loaded up our Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09125822925444569228noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3972456391833713495.post-14767722455295612322016-06-20T10:29:00.001-05:002016-06-20T10:29:26.675-05:00Calming The Storm: The Life of a Flood/Disaster BucketCalming The Storm: The Life of a Flood/Disaster Bucket: Part of the Disaster Care Ministry at Beautiful Savior Lutheran Church is our Bucket Brigade. This year alone, we have already distrib...Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09125822925444569228noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3972456391833713495.post-1072748444297338052016-06-20T10:25:00.000-05:002016-06-20T10:25:39.544-05:00The Life of a Flood/Disaster Bucket
Part of the Disaster Care Ministry at Beautiful Savior Lutheran Church is our Bucket Brigade. This year alone, we have already distributed over 1000 Disaster Buckets and we have another 200 ready for delivery. I often get ask what a Disaster or Flood Bucket is and how our program works.
Flood Bucket with its contents
A Disaster/ Flood Bucket is a 5-gallon bucket containing Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09125822925444569228noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3972456391833713495.post-54124471734872708482016-06-07T08:05:00.001-05:002016-06-07T08:05:20.410-05:00Feeding Disaster Victims in Bryan, TX
Saturday and Sunday A few members from the Disaster Care Ministry joined up with the folks from The Holy Cow Smokers from Lamb of God in Flower Mound and Bethel Lutheran in Bryan to feed victims of the tornado and floods that hit Bryan Texas on May 28.
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We fed pulled pork sandwiches for lunch on Saturday, Sliced Brisket for dinner, and chopped brisket sandwiches for lunch on SundayAnonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09125822925444569228noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3972456391833713495.post-34671879250060973082016-06-01T11:39:00.000-05:002016-06-01T11:40:03.264-05:00Disaster Buckets to Bryan, TXOn Thursday, May 25 heavy storms moved through the Brazos Valley dumping torrential rain and spawn tornadoes. One tornado struck in Bryan Texas damaging 153 homes. In addition to the tornado flooding was experienced all around the city.
On Saturday, May 27 I received a request to take buckets to Bethel Lutheran Church in Bryan, TX. We had just received supplies for our Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09125822925444569228noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3972456391833713495.post-52689258107924981472016-05-23T12:28:00.000-05:002016-05-23T12:28:44.544-05:00Tornado Work Day In Lindale, TX.
SaturdayMay 21 we worked with the folks from the Lindale area to put on a work day to help the victims of the tornadoes that hit the area onApril 29. Over 300 volunteers showed up for the work day including 67 Lutherans from 7 LCMS Churches.
Greg Bourbon, with The Disaster Care Ministry at Beautiful Savior LCMS, Gives the Safety Briefing
David Ricks with the Disaster Care Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09125822925444569228noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3972456391833713495.post-76728125908930539322016-01-29T07:44:00.000-06:002016-01-29T07:45:16.178-06:00LCMS Volunteer Day for December 2015 TornadoesAnonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09125822925444569228noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3972456391833713495.post-12918535874619787652016-01-27T10:19:00.001-06:002016-02-05T13:55:35.655-06:00January 23 Tornado Work Day Video
Here is a video put together by Steve Misch highlighting some of the work day. You can view a higher quality version of the video at https://vimeo.com/153043951
Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09125822925444569228noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3972456391833713495.post-22116086302293186242016-01-25T13:35:00.000-06:002016-01-25T19:36:17.152-06:00
January 23 Tornado Clean Up Day
It was a brisk January morning as 345 Lutherans descended on Tree of Life Lutheran Church in Garland, Texas. They were there to help residents of Garland, Rowlett, and Sunnyvale as they cleaned up from the EF 4 tornado that struck the area one day after Christmas.
A group of about 100 volunteers headed out to help clean up an RV Park near the Church.Debris Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09125822925444569228noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3972456391833713495.post-22111614282608328532015-06-07T08:20:00.000-05:002015-06-07T08:20:08.997-05:00LCMS Texas District Passes Disaster ResolutionThe following resolution was passed week at the Texas District Convention of the Lutheran Church Missouri Synod in San Marcos, TX.
Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09125822925444569228noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3972456391833713495.post-85234182812230877742015-05-30T18:36:00.000-05:002015-05-30T18:36:05.402-05:00LCMS Van Work Day
Although it started out very soggy, we had a very successful work day assisting residents of Van, TX as they clean up after the town was hit by an EF 3 tornado.
We began working in a steady rain, after about two hours the rain quit and the sun even peek through the clouds a couple of times.
52 members of North Texas area LCMS Congregations turned out despite the weather to assist Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09125822925444569228noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3972456391833713495.post-85367350750314876992015-05-28T08:20:00.000-05:002015-05-28T08:35:06.665-05:00The Disaster Care Ministry Delivers Flood Buckets to Rain Soaked San Marcos
On Saturday May 23 and Sunday May 24 the Blanco River Crest at a record flood levels. Sunday morning the river crested at 43 ft., 30 ft over flood stage. At that time the flow rate of the river was 223,000 cubic feet per second - 2.5 times the flow rate of Niagra Falls.
Assessments are still being done on homes damaged, but we were told yesterday that over 1,000 homes were destroyed or Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09125822925444569228noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3972456391833713495.post-29741671042575387352015-05-19T10:44:00.001-05:002015-05-19T10:46:06.309-05:00Disaster Relief Work Day - Van, TX - May 30
Disaster Relief Work Day
Where:
Van Texas
When :
Saturday May 30 at 9:00 AM
Meetat the Van High School
985 N Maple St, Van, TX 75790
On the evening of May 10 an EF3 Tornado hit the town of Van
Texas, killing two and doing approximately $40 million in Damage.
The Disaster Care Ministry of Beautiful Savior Lutheran
working with Trinity Lutheran and the Volunteer Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09125822925444569228noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3972456391833713495.post-75755211367831180312015-05-03T07:10:00.000-05:002015-05-03T07:18:42.356-05:00Thank You To All Who Came To Our Fiesta Fund Raiser/ Mexican Ice Cream RecipeI would like to thank everyone who came to our event last night. I hope you had as much fun as I did. FIESTA was a great Success.
As promised below is the Betty Crocker recipe for the Mexican Fried Ice Cream we had last night.
Thanks again for your support.
Enjoy all the flavors of Mexican fried ice cream in this easy layered 13 x 9 dessert.
Ingredients
2
tablespoons butter
1/Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09125822925444569228noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3972456391833713495.post-46175203746687973412015-04-22T09:18:00.000-05:002015-04-22T09:18:23.381-05:00Do You Need an Electronic Survival Kit?
With the chance of severe weather in the area it is a good
time to check and make sure your personal survival kit is ready to go. It is
always a good idea to check your flash light, batteries and replace anything in
your kit that might have expired.
In this day and age so many of us have become dependent on
our electronic devises. Although it may not be for everyone, today we are
asking “Do Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09125822925444569228noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3972456391833713495.post-83479190617954803432015-04-20T13:05:00.000-05:002015-04-20T13:06:52.469-05:00FIESTA Disaster Care Ministry Dinner and Silent AuctionAnonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09125822925444569228noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3972456391833713495.post-44319576091903737122015-04-15T13:15:00.001-05:002015-04-15T13:28:22.826-05:00Cell Phone Apps Useful in DisasterWith the evolution of the smart phone, people have a lot of resources at their finger tips. Why not make your smart phone a useful tool to help with disasters. Below I have listed a few cell phone apps you may find useful.If you click on the link it will take you to were you can download the app.
The American Red cross puts out a number of good apps useful before, during, and after a disaster.
Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09125822925444569228noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3972456391833713495.post-67834083524556185892015-04-14T07:44:00.001-05:002015-04-14T07:44:13.567-05:00Update on Illinois Tornadoes from LCC
Click Here to Donate to the LCC Disaster Relief Fund
Click Here to Donate to the LCC K-9 Comfort Dog Travel Fund
Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09125822925444569228noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3972456391833713495.post-65160949922842665842015-04-12T08:07:00.001-05:002015-04-12T08:07:41.681-05:00Volunteer - Northern IL Tornado - April 2015
Lutheran Church Charities is coordinating volunteers for groups and individuals wishing to help with the relief efforts in Northern Illinois. Individuals, independently or serving as part of a group, planning to help with cleanup must complete and submit the form below. Thank you for Making A Difference in God's Kingdom serving those in need in Illinois. Please call LCC at 866-455-6466 or emailAnonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09125822925444569228noreply@blogger.com0