Lutheran Disaster Response

One aspect of the ELCA’s unique position within disaster response is the breadth and depth of our direct relationships. With approximately 240 missionaries in 48 countries and 120 companion synod relationships between ELCA synods and other global Lutheran churches, our...

I just read a transcript of a meeting convened by Laurie Garret, Senior Fellow for Global Health, Council on Foreign Relations. It’s a bit long but is chalk-full of candid conversation about the situation in the Horn of Africa, how...

Amidst the situation of refugees overflowing the camps at Dadaab and reports that sexual and gender-based violence has been on the rise, it is good to know that a program like the Lutheran World Federation (LWF) run “Safe Haven” exists....

The Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees has created a great new web portal that gives up-to-date and easy to read statistics, reports and stories of the current drought in the Horn of Africa. The portal offers...

Rarely do we get to hear the story of refugees in their own words. Usually we hear about the refugee “situation” or a reporter tells us a particular refugee’s story that might involve a quote or two. So when I...

I had this set of questions come up a few times in conversation over the past week. Usually it was from people who are out in congregations sharing the message of our work and relaying back the sense they were...