{"id":3572,"date":"2019-05-29T11:30:16","date_gmt":"2019-05-29T16:30:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.elca.org\/disasterresponse\/?p=3572"},"modified":"2019-05-29T10:47:40","modified_gmt":"2019-05-29T15:47:40","slug":"situation-update-u-s-tornadoes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.elca.org\/disasterresponse\/situation-update-u-s-tornadoes\/","title":{"rendered":"Situation Update: U.S. Tornadoes"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.elca.org\/disasterresponse\/?attachment_id=3576\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-3576\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-3576\" src=\"https:\/\/blogs.elca.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/37\/2019\/05\/ustornadoes_52919.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"1300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blogs.elca.org\/disasterresponse\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/37\/2019\/05\/ustornadoes_52919.png 800w, https:\/\/blogs.elca.org\/disasterresponse\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/37\/2019\/05\/ustornadoes_52919-185x300.png 185w, https:\/\/blogs.elca.org\/disasterresponse\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/37\/2019\/05\/ustornadoes_52919-768x1248.png 768w, https:\/\/blogs.elca.org\/disasterresponse\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/37\/2019\/05\/ustornadoes_52919-630x1024.png 630w, https:\/\/blogs.elca.org\/disasterresponse\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/37\/2019\/05\/ustornadoes_52919-250x406.png 250w, https:\/\/blogs.elca.org\/disasterresponse\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/37\/2019\/05\/ustornadoes_52919-215x350.png 215w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<h2>Be a part of the response:<\/h2>\n<p><strong>Pray<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Please pray for the communities who were impacted by these destructive tornadoes. May God&#8217;s healing presence give them peace and hope in their time of need. Pray that God will deliver comfort to those who mourn the loss of loved ones and strength to those who are working diligently to care for affected communities.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Give<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Gifts to &#8220;<a href=\"https:\/\/community.elca.org\/USTornadoRelief\">U.S. Tornadoes<\/a>&#8221; will be used to assist those affected by tornadoes until the response is complete.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Connect<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>To learn more about the situation and the ELCA\u2019s response:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Share this\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/download.elca.org\/ELCA%20Resource%20Repository\/US_Tornadoes_bulletin_Insert_052319.pdf\">bulletin insert<\/a> with your congregation and encourage support.<\/li>\n<li>Sign up to receive Lutheran Disaster Response\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/listserv.elca.org\/cgi-bin\/wa.exe?SUBED1=DISASTER&amp;A=1\">alerts<\/a>.<\/li>\n<li>Check the Lutheran Disaster Response\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.elca.org\/disasterresponse\/\">blog<\/a>.<\/li>\n<li>Like Lutheran Disaster Response on\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/ELCALDR\">Facebook<\/a>\u00a0and follow @ELCALDR on\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/elcaldr\">Twitter<\/a>.<\/li>\n<li>To download a PDF version of this report, <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.elca.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/37\/2019\/05\/ustornadoes_52919.pdf\">click here<\/a>.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Be a part of the response: Pray Please pray for the communities who were impacted by these destructive tornadoes. 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Pray that God will deliver comfort to those who mourn the loss of loved ones and strength to those who are working [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":231,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3572","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-post"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v28.5 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Situation Update: U.S. Tornadoes - Lutheran Disaster Response<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/blogs.elca.org\/disasterresponse\/situation-update-u-s-tornadoes\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Situation Update: U.S. Tornadoes - Lutheran Disaster Response\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Be a part of the response: Pray Please pray for the communities who were impacted by these destructive tornadoes. 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