Evacuation Order near Oroville Dam Emergency Spillway
Late Sunday afternoon, an evacuation order went out in Oroville and other towns in Yuba, Sutter and Butte counties of California. The evacuation, having forced over 100,000 people from their homes, was ordered when a hole was discovered in the...
Long Road Ahead: Response to the Executive Orders
In a host community in Jordan, a delegation of Global Mission staff met Jasmine,* a widowed woman from Syria. She, like many others, fled to Jordan for safety with her sisters and her two young children. She had been offered...
Year-End Reflection
End of Year Reflections By Pastor Michael Stadie With 2016 coming to an end, like many of you, I am thinking back about this past year especially in terms of the disasters that impacted the United States. As I do,...
Hurricane Matthew: A Day of Rest
In early October, many of us watched as Hurricane Matthew devastated the Caribbean and powered its way towards the U.S. Florida, Georgia, and the Carolinas braced themselves as Matthew moved in their direction. After the hurricane dispelled and rivers receded,...
We Remember
The Lutheran Disaster Response – US Consultation was last week. Our coordinators came in from around the nation to the Lutheran Center, here in Chicago, to do some collective learning and information sharing. During this time, we also made space...
UPDATE: Hurricane Matthew
Hurricane Matthew ripped through the Caribbean and southeastern U.S. coast, leaving hundreds of casualties, thousands of homes destroyed and millions of people displaced and without power. Lutheran Disaster Response has committed to being present internationally and here in the U.S....