Help us be your hands and feet in sharing the love and presence of Jesus in 2019!

Our mission is to bring the Mercy, Compassion, Presence, and Proclamation of Jesus Christ to those who are suffering and in need. Our 12/31 Annual Fund Appeal is the one time each year we request you to support the overall ministry of Lutheran Church Charities. Your gifts to our Annual Fund help us continue to make a difference.

Through our LCC K-9 Ministries, we respond and deploy with boots and paws on the ground within 24 hours, often sooner, to any crisis or disaster situation we are invited into. We only go where we are invited, but this year those invites come in on a daily basis across the country! Your gifts allowed LCC to respond immediately to the mass shootings in:

• Marshall County, Kentucky
• Parkland, Florida
• Great Mills, Maryland
• Santa Fe, Texas
• Thousand Oaks, California
• And all too many others – many that are not mentioned on the news

Our LCC Disaster Response Lutheran Early Response Teams (LERT) were present and serving communities following disasters such as:

• Historic floods in Watseka, Illinois
• Condominium fires in Prospect Heights, Illinois
• Tornadoes and flooding in Wisconsin and Northern Illinois
• Hurricane Florence in North Carolina
• Hurricane Michael in Panama City, Florida
• Wildfires in Northern California
• Tornadoes in Taylorville, Illinois

LCC Human Care Ministries work through pastors and congregations to provide financial, in-kind donations, people resources, and emotional and spiritual care for:

• St. Matthew's El Comedor San Mateo Soup Kitchen - Chicago, Illinois: Secured donated turkeys and food for Thanksgiving through Trinity - Roselle, Illinois.
  
• Christ the King - Chicago, Illinois: LCC Donors helped purchase new freezer and food to help feed 500+ elderly for Thanksgiving.
  
• Working through Salam Christian Fellowship to provide Muslim refugees with furniture, household items, food, clothing, medical and financial assistance, housing, vehicles and more to open doors to share the good news of Jesus Christ.
  
• Provide homeless veterans who have secured housing with move in essentials
• Assisting individuals and families in crisis: Working through Christ the King – Chicago, Illinois, helped members provide clothing, school supplies, and tuition for 8 year old Zayd so he could stay with his elderly grandmother after he was abandoned.
• Connecting churches and schools who have closed with ministries in need: Lutheran Special School and Education Services – Hales Corner, Wisconsin, recently moved into a new facility and was blessed by many critical donations from several churches and schools. They will now be able to add new classroom and programs for these special children they serve.
• Vehicles to help those without transportation so they can secure jobs or go to their medical treatments.
  

We ask you to remember us last to keep us first to serve and prayerfully consider donating to our 12/31 Annual Fund Appeal.  

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