Lutheran Church Charities has set the following in-person Basic L.E.R.T. Training date. If you know someone who would be a good addition to your L.E.R.T. Team, encourage them to register and attend. Saturday, November 20, 2021 Concordia University Chicago Christopher Center – Rm. 200 (southwest corner of campus) 7400 Augusta St. River Forest, Illinois 60305 Parking on the 1st or 2nd floor of the parking garage located off Bonnie Brae Rd. You will be required to bring and wear a face mask while indoors on the campus. Time: Registration: 8:30 - 9:00 am | Training: 9:00 am - 1:00 pm Cost: $35.00 per person for new L.E.R.T. volunteers; $15 for L.E.R.T. team members attending to update their ID Payments can be made online or during registration. If you have attended a previous L.E.R.T. training, please wear your ID and bring your manual with you. AFTER COMPLETING THE LCC REGISTRATION, YOU WILL BE DIRECTED AFTER YOUR SUBMISSION TO SELECT THE LINK TO COMPLETE THE LCMS REGISTRATION. YOU MUST COMPLETE BOTH REGISTRATIONS!
LCC received the following update from Haitian Lutheran Mission Project about your donations to support Haitian Lutheran teachers: I want to let our donors know that our teachers did receive their salaries which we sent in advance (paying them until the end of this year). I would like to assure everyone that we continue to serve the people of Jeremie even through this difficult time. The unrest and gang activity that you hear about is not happening in Jeremie, but what happens in Port au Prince does impact the entire country. Thank you for your continued support, and I hope to send good news in the next email. Blessings, Susan Gross Haitian Lutheran Mission Project On Friday, October 29, the Put Your Hands Together (PYHT) Food Ministry of Immanuel, Hillside, Illinois, distributed several palates of food and drinks to local ministries who serve those in need, serving more than twenty-two mission partners, nine of which are active LCC partners. Christ the King Lutheran Church – Chicago Holy Trinity Lutheran Church – Burbank Immanuel Lutheran Church – Bartlett Immanuel Lutheran Church – Des Plaines Immanuel Lutheran Church – Hillside Lutheran Church Charities Pastor Fernando Gomez, Jehovah-El Buen Lutheran Church – Chicago Resurrection Lutheran Church – Chicago St. Matthew Lutheran Church Soup Kitchen – Chicago St. Paul Lutheran Church – Oak Lawn We are thankful to the faithful volunteers who serve Put Your Hands Together with food distribution. Thank you for making a difference!
Your generous gifts helped to reopen the school damaged by Hurricane Ida! LCC sent your donations to Nancy Hernandez, Principal of Lutheran High School of Greater New Orleans in Metairie, Louisiana. LCC received the following update from Nancy: We have successfully completed a full month of school since returning from the hurricane. Students are adjusting to their new surroundings and looking forward to a return to some extracurricular activities. We had our first Chapel service with our choir performing a beautiful rendition of “10,000 Reasons”! With each day our new normal becomes normal. We did have to turn two school days into virtual days, so we could re-wire the building currently being occupied for our permanent individual classroom AC units. The HVAC for this section of the building went out with the hurricane and the rented portable units could not keep pace with the Louisiana heat! We have hired a contractor to begin talks about the refurbishing of the two buildings left inhabitable by the storm. It will be a long road but with prayers and fundraising, one day Lutheran High will be whole again! Thank you for your continued support! Nancy Hernandez, Principal Love. Honor. Serve. CLICK HERE to read the original appeal Donations are still greatly needed! Please prayerfully consider a generous donation to keep this school serving its students and community. "By this we know love, that he laid down his life for us, and we ought to lay down our lives for the brothers. But if anyone has the world's goods and sees his brother in need, yet closes his heart against him, how does God's love abide in him? Little children, let us not love in word or talk but in deed and in truth." 1 John 3:16-18 Last week the LCC K-9 Comfort Dogs and LCC Kare 9 Military Ministry Dogs served the Security Forces (Military Police) at Nellis Air Force Base, Las Vegas, Nevada, after the death of one of their airmen. James Colip, Master Sgt., Section Chief, Operations Security Forces, invited the LCC K-9 Ministry to visit with each of the Security Forces shifts the week of October 25-28 to ensure the airmen had time to spend with the LCC K-9 Comfort Dogs and their handlers. LCC Kare 9 Military Ministry Dog Reuben (First Lutheran - Yuba City, California) and his veteran handler and LCC K-9 Comfort Dog Gomer (St. John’s - Napa, California) with his handlers and ministry partner traveled by vehicle 12 hours from California to Las Vegas to join LCC K-9 Comfort Dogs Lois (First Good Shepherd - Las Vegas, Nevada) and Salome (Faith Community - Las Vegas, Nevada) to serve the Security Forces Unit at Nellis. Each day these four K-9 ministry teams visited the different shifts on the base to share the mercy, compassion, and presence of Jesus Christ with this hurting unit. Many serving in the United States military are very young - even the officers, but they do their job every day to protect our country. They are far from home and without their families. The LCC K-9 Comfort Dogs allowed them to receive love and comfort. Some were talkative; some said little or nothing but stayed with the dogs. All were so grateful for the visits that week. This was truly a ministry of presence as the soldiers are trained to push down their emotions. The LCC K-9 Comfort Dog handlers and ministry partners noticed a real difference in how the airmen responded to the first day they were there and then on subsequent visits. Many were hesitant to interact with the team at the beginning of that initial visit, but when the Comfort Dogs and their handlers returned the following night, those same individuals sought them out as they were returning from their shifts. The handlers and ministry partners were able to continue the conversations they had started the day before. The K-9 ministry teams felt like we made some real connections there. Master Sergeant Colip of the Military Police expressed a desire to continue having the LCC K-9 Comfort Dogs visit the base in the future and told the team he considers them "part of the unit." This deployment reinforced how the LCC K-9 Comfort Dogs provide a bridge for us to share the mercy and compassion of Christ. Something that handlers shared was how many people noticed that the Comfort Dogs' vests say "Please Pet Me" and commented about how they loved that since the dogs they work with serve a very different purpose, and they aren't able to interact with them in that way. Please keep our activity duty military and their families that support them in your prayers and thoughts. We pray Salome and Lois Comfort Dogs, and their teams will be able to continue to visit with these brave men and women. "Blessed are the peacemakers, for they will be called children of God." Matthew 5:9 |
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