Bethany – Austin, Texas Receives Second LCC K-9 Ministry Dog with Martha Comfort Dog’s Passing of the Vest

During five services on Sunday, April 15, at Bethany Lutheran Church in Austin, Texas, LCC K-9 Comfort Dog Martha was officially placed as the seventh LCC K-9 Comfort Dog in Texas. Martha Comfort Dog is the second LCC K-9 Comfort Dog placed at Bethany Lutheran that is also the home of LCC K-9 Comfort Dog Abner.
 
Martha Comfort Dog took her first services with grace and patiently waited for her training vest to be replaced. Being dual-vested, Tom Barry, the veteran handler, dressed LCC Kare 9 Military Ministry Martha in her camo vest during the contemporary worship service. At the other services, Cindy Jones, Top Dog, dressed Martha in her everyday blue vest as her newly trained handlers looked on.

LCC K-9 Comfort Dog Martha’s Bible verse is John 11:24, "Martha answered, 'I know he will rise again in the resurrection at the last day.'"
 
Supporting Martha Comfort Dog and her team were the other six Texas LCC K-9 Comfort Dogs Phoebe and Pax (St. Paul – Fort Worth), Abner (Bethany – Austin), Damaris (Memorial – Katy), Elijah (Our Redeemer – Wichita Falls) and Gabriel (Messiah – Houston). The significance of the Biblical story of Mary and Martha living in Bethany was very special to this congregation. They learned that Martha Comfort Dog’s sister, Mary Comfort Dog, now resides in Wisconsin but Martha Comfort Dog is now home at Bethany. LCC welcomes Martha Comfort Dog and her team to the LCC K-9 Ministry family and prays for God’s blessing.

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