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What if a disaster happened today?
How can you be Lutheran Disaster Response?

Lutheran volunteers from Washington StateWhen disaster strikes in your community, the local Lutherans are the first form of Lutheran Disaster Response.  Every time Lutherans act in service to their neighbors in need following a disaster, they are being Lutheran Disaster Response.  [Learn more]


Lutheran Disaster Response is a collaborative ministry of the Evangelical Lutheran Church in America (ELCA) and The Lutheran Church-Missouri Synod (LCMS).  We seek to demonstrate Christ's compassion for people by promoting hope, healing, and wholeness for disaster survivors.

Help Wanted:  Be a volunteer

Thinking about vacation in northwest Indiana?  Or leaving chilly Wisconsin behind to spend a week in Texas?  Take a look at the re-designed Volunteer section of the site for information about how you can help those in need.   [more]



National Preparedness Month has ended...
but it's never too late to be better prepared for disaster.  Are you ready?   [more]