Lutheran Disaster Response

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...

I just read an Aug 2nd UN press briefing on the situation in the Horn of Africa that had some pretty striking statistics. It really drove home that though things are bad now, without proper intervention they can get much...

Dear Sisters and Brothers: I am Kevin Massey, Program Director for Lutheran Disaster Response.  I’m in Minot North Dakota this week connecting with these flood affected communities and people that I met last month when I was here.  Volunteer operations...

On Monday the United Nations Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs gave a press release on the situation in the Horn of Africa. Reading it this morning, I was struck by some familiar echoes to the response of the...