Urgent Financial Assistance Needed for Hurricane Michael Relief Collections Fund

LCC to purchase food, medical supplies, and basic needs for impacted residents in Panama City, Florida

Lutheran Church Charities has been coordinating Hurricane Michael requested relief donations within the Northern Illinois District (NID) for Trinity Lutheran Church in Panama City, Florida.

Your urgent financial assistance is needed as impacted residents have little to no access to food, medical supplies and basic needs. Both hospitals are still closed due to damage. People are being air-lifted and transported for medical care. Grocery stores are over an hour away and have limited stock that runs out quickly.

Trinity Lutheran Church in Panama City is serving 6,000 people per week to people who have been coming to their food pantry desperately needing assistance because they have lost everything.

CLICK HERE to watch video from Tim Hetzner, LCC President / CEO about current needs for Panama City residents

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Ed Brashier, Southern District Disaster Response Coordinator, and Kathy Roberts, Trinity Food Bank Coordinator, called Kathy O'Day, LCC Director of Disaster Response, on Tuesday morning to ask if LCC could add additional items that are difficult to obtain in Florida to the truck that will be heading to them soon.

Northern Illinois District Only
We are asking for the following items to be purchased in bulk only (cases– not individual items) and delivered by 7:00 pm Wednesday, October 31, to Immanuel Lutheran Church, 200 N. Plum Grove Rd., Palatine, Illinois. Again all items purchased must be in cases or boxed and labeled for transport.

• Gatorade
• Disinfectant wipes (Clorox, Lysol, etc.)
• Hand sanitizer – small bottles
• Band-Aids
• Antibiotic cream (small tubes)
• Advil or Tylenol (small bottles)
• Canned meats – such as tuna, chicken, Vienna sausage, Spam, ham, roast beef, etc.
• Individually packaged meals (tuna or chicken salad with crackers, etc.)
  
  

Everyone can help! If you cannot purchase items, or live outside of the NID, please consider donating to the Hurricane Michael Disaster Relief Collections Fund to help LCC immediately purchase these items.

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On Saturday, October 27, Cheryl Sorenson from Family in Faith Lutheran Church in Glendale Heights, Illinois, coordinated a packing event at their Neighborhood Food Pantry Building for all of the donations received from several schools for Hurricane Michael relief. These donations were from the following schools:

Wheaton Christian Grammar School, Winfield

Community School of the Arts, Wheaton College

Humanitarian Disaster Institute, Wheaton College

Family in Faith Neighborhood Food Pantry and Immanuel Lutheran Church in Palatine, Illinois, have served as collection sites for requested donations from other NID churches and schools. Immanuel Lutheran Church has donated the use of a semi-trailer truck to deliver the donations. The truck is picking up donations from the designated sites on Thursday, November 1 and will then head down to our center at Trinity Lutheran Church in Panama City. Trinity Lutheran is very excited that LCC and our donors are bringing critical supplies that are desperately needed.

Thank you for your generous donations that will help individuals and families who have been affected recover from the storm. A special thank you to the many volunteers who are packing up the donations in preparation for the transport this week.

LCC Disaster Response and LERT chainsaw teams will be deploying to Panama City for a week beginning on November 10 to provide chainsaw assistance, roof tarping, and debris removal. The LCC K-9 Comfort Dogs will also be present to bring the Mercy, Compassion, Presence, and Proclamation of Jesus Christ to those suffering and in need.

Thank you for your continued prayers as LCC Disaster Response and LERT chainsaw teams prepare to deploy to Panama City, Florida to aid in recovery efforts.

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