On Saturday, June 18, LCC Staff member John Pejchl visited with Karen Farruggia and Dawn Janke, founders of Breakfast with Baby at Our Savior Lutheran Church in Carol Stream, Illinois. Since the beginning of the COVID-19 pandemic, the need for their services has grown.
Their most significant needs are diapers and baby wipes. They spend nearly $1,000 per month to purchase the items they provide to families in need during their monthly giveaway. Please prayerfully consider donating to help Breakfast with Baby meet this need to serve families in their community. $60,000 Needed to Continue Camp J.O.Y.  Lutheran Church Charities is helping to support Our Savior Lutheran Church in Buffalo, New York as they seek to help bring stability and growth to children affected by the tragic Tops supermarket shooting on May 14th. Click the video to watch Barbara Glover, Church President at Our Savior Lutheran Church share her moving testimony about Camp J.O.Y.  Our Savior is hosting Camp J.O.Y. (Jesus, Others, Yourself), a 6-week day camp focused on spiritual and developmental growth for area children. After any community tragedy, children are often scared, confused, and looking for stability and comfort. Camp J.O.Y. seeks to provide that stability and comfort through faith-focused personal development for children.  With massive changes in the economy, Camp J.O.Y. has had to hire four additional staff members and cover more expenses than usual in order to make sure that community children are supported. This additional cost has become a hardship for a ministry that has impacted the community of Buffalo for many years, bringing faith and personal development to a generation of children who need it most.
These additional expenses amount to almost $60,000 to successfully provide for this valuable ministry. Please prayerfully consider supporting Camp J.O.Y. as they seek to bring Jesus to the community of Buffalo New York. If you are moved to help fulfill the great need for volunteers, please contact Our Savior Buffalo directly at 716-885-1108. LCC received the following request from Pastor Steve Kass, Family In Faith, Glendale Heights, Illinois:  Family In Faith is planning to put in a good-sized vegetable and herb garden on our property behind our food pantry building. The purpose is to grow vegetables that we can then harvest and give away at the food pantry. We have the strong support of our local community.
To make this garden a reality, we are in need of:
If you have materials that you can donate or if you are able to volunteer, please contact Dianna Bonfield or John Pejchl at 866-455-6466 or email LCC@LutheranChurchCharities.org  Thanks to your generous donations, Christ the King Lutheran Church and School in Chicago, Illinois, received new computers after multiple computers broke down that were essential to their ministry. All computers were installed this week. Principal Geri Brazeal and Christ the King students are overjoyed and grateful for the new equipment! Thank you for your support of Christ the King as Pastor John Brazeal and Principal Geri continue to touch the lives of countless families and individuals in the south side of Chicago.
$6,000 Needed to Replace Broken Computers  For decades, Christ the King Lutheran Church and School in Chicago, Illinois, has been a staple of their community, serving children through their school, the elderly through their food deliveries, and their neighbors through Word and Sacrament ministry. When COVID struck, Rev. John Brazeal and his wife Geri had to adapt to continue making a difference in the lives of their community.
They were able to pivot to remote teaching for their students and online worship for their members, reaching far more people than they have before. This past week multiple computers broke down that were at the core of their ministry, including Geri’s computer, which holds all of the school and church records. They are in great need of $6,000 for multiple computers to keep their ministry thriving as they touch the lives of countless individuals in the south side of Chicago. If you feel moved, please join in partnership with the life-changing ministry of Christ the King by donating to help fund these needed devices Christ the King Lutheran Church, Chicago, Illinois, has an ongoing ministry with a homeless tent city in Chicago. This Thanksgiving, the tent city they have served with meals in the past was fed Thanksgiving dinner by another agency. Pastor John Brazeal of Christ the King and some of the school students delivered the 120 meals they had prepared to five smaller homeless sites in the city. As they delivered the dinners, Pastor John talked and prayed with each of the people about their lives in the tent city and their challenges and needs. He learned that one of the shocking struggles for many people is the battle with the mice and rats for any food they bring home for the next meal.
These folks desperately need three items: totes with lids to store food, small propane tanks for cooking and warming themselves, and hand warmers.
Please help Christ The King serve these homeless communities by donating generously for the purchase of totes, propane tanks, and hand warmers. LCC received the following update from Nancy Hernandez, Principal of Lutheran High School of Greater New Orleans in Metairie, Louisiana:  The Gryphons of Lutheran High School are moving forward! Classes and school activities are following a regular routine – finally! Our Chapel services are now enhanced by our school choir that used the first month back to practice, practice, practice! Our choir will be featured in our new video, singing for a parish-wide event, and performing for local Lutheran elementary schools. Our seniors and juniors are meeting college representatives during lunch periods and visiting local college campuses for tours. The boys’ basketball team will play a limited schedule this year because of our late start, but their enthusiasm for returning to the court is high! The last of the hurricane debris was removed from campus yesterday. An engineering firm is currently working to check the foundation on building number one – the building that received the most extensive damage and the first to be renovated. An architectural rendering of the new look for the outside of the building is in front of the school. Hopefully, in early spring, we will be packing up the last of the items in building one and welcoming a construction crew!
A funny “rebuilding” story! We were contacted by Disney to use the outside of our building in a movie shoot. (I asked if they were filming a horror movie!) The movie was set in the 1940s, so they told us our look was perfect! It was a one-day shoot during the Thanksgiving break. They changed the school signs to read Coventry High School. Of course, all the changes looked very real and authentic. A neighbor came over and said, “I know you all had much damage, but do you have to change the name of the school also?” Through the donation of an alum family, we have filmed a short video of the school to use for the continued support of our school and recruitment of new students. When the video is complete, we will post it on our website: www.lutheranhighschool.net. Thanks again for your generosity; it is greatly appreciated. We have a long road ahead, but with the prayers and support we have received from so many Lutheran Churches, schools, and other ministries, we will begin to take the first steps to our new beginning! In His Service, Nancy Hernandez Principal, The Students and Staff of Lutheran High School
There are many people coming to the Put Your Hands Together (PYHT) Food Ministry in Hillside, Illinois, for food relief during the holiday season. Bringing the love of our Lord Jesus, his hope, and comfort during a stressful time for many struggling individuals and families has always been PYHT's mission.
 On Saturday, November 13, Redeeming Life Outreach Ministries (RLOM) Illinois expansion committee was honored to host a booth in the 41st Annual Holiday Craft Show at Trinity Lutheran Church of Lombard, Illinois. The craft booth was our first-time craft show event to raise funds for the new maternity home in the Northern Illinois District. This first-time craft show helped raise over $5,000, and this amount is not exact because funds are still coming in. The RLOM Illinois expansion committee thanks all donors who donated baked goods, handmade craft items, knitted or crocheted items, and handmade quilts.
Redeeming Life is a Christ-centered maternity home that provides a stable environment for single women with unplanned pregnancies. Their structured program provides mentoring, counseling, and life skills education to help them become independent and provide for their children as single mothers. 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. |
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