Disaster Response L.E.R.T. Teams Deploy to Tennessee to Help Families with Tornado Recovery

Lutheran Church Charities LERT teams deployed to Tennessee to help families with tornado recovery. Your prayers, support, and donations are needed to assist LCC in helping devastated families. 

Tim Hetzner, LCC President/CEO, and Kathy O’Day, LCC Director of Disaster Response, spent Thursday, March 5 assessing extensive damage and meeting with homeowners to determine needs, listen to their stories, and offer prayer and support. Sixty-plus volunteers are present to assist families suffering and in need. LCC also has a Bobcat, mini Bobcat, Ditch Witch, three tractors with grapples, 24’ dump trailer, 50’ boom lift, and vehicles with 50 steel cable winches to help in tornado recovery. Your prayers and support are desperately needed to help us help those who are in need

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LCC never goes where we are not invited. We NEVER charge those we serve. We pick up all of our travel, lodging, and meal costs. We put boots on the ground within 24 hours (often fewer) from the time we get the invite.

To give to our Disaster Response fund and Disaster Response Equipment fund, please visit https://luthcc.org/tennessee

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Early Tuesday morning, March 3, an estimated seven tornadoes hit the Nashville, Tennessee area. Death totals continue to climb, multiple people are missing, countless injured and hundreds devastated.
 
In less than 8 hours, LCC Disaster Response received an invite from Rev. Ross Johnson, Lutheran Church-Missouri Synod (LCMS) Disaster Response Director and Mid-South District President Rev. Dr. Roger Paavola to go into Nashville, Tennessee.

Tim Hetzner, LCC President/CEO and Kathy O’Day, LCC Director of Disaster Response are deploying out this Thursday morning to meet with Mid-South District representatives and local pastors to do assessments to get things ready for L.E.R.T. Chainsaw teams to deploy.
 
Kathy O’Day is in close contact with Pastor Keith Enko from Emmanuel Lutheran Church in Hermitage, Tennessee and Pastor Andrew Smith from Heavenly Host Lutheran Church, School and Early Childhood Center in Cookeville, Tennessee.

CLICK HERE to read the entire appeal sent out on Tuesday, March 3.

DONATE - LCC DISASTER RESPONSE FUND

DONATE - DR EQUIPMENT MAINTENANCE & FUEL EXPENSE FUND