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| LHM Has a Backpack Program and Free Booklets to Help You Share Christ’s Love with Hurricane Survivors |
| September 21, 2005 |
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 Backpacks for Kids
LHM would like to team up with your church or school to provide backpacks filled with school supplies for children displaced by Hurricane Katrina through its Backpacks for Kids program. Backpacks for Kids is a great project for your Sunday school class, youth group, or Bible study group. LHM will include age-appropriate spiritual materials with school supplies your church members gather. We will then place all the materials in a backpack and distribute the backpacks to children affected by Hurricane Katrina. To find detailed instructions for LHM’s Backpacks for Kids program, visit www.lhm.org/backpacks. The deadline to receive supplies is Nov. 15, 2005.
LHM has downloadable resources to help your church promote Backpacks for Kids, such as posters, flyers, bulletin inserts, and printable press releases for local media. Post them on your Web site, or print them for your church’s use in Sunday school classes, Bible studies, youth groups, and outreach in surrounding neighborhoods. Access the Backpacks for Kids resources at www.lhm.org/backpacks. Use the link “Click here for printable resources.”
Booklets for Churches Ministering to Hurricane Survivors
LHM is offering topical booklets to help you reach those who are struggling with fear, depression, anxiety, grief, and hopelessness. We will ship limited quantities of certain booklets to LCMS churches free of charge. Booklets available are:
• Why Do Bad Things Happen?
• Take Heart in Your Grief
• A Rhyme and Reason to Life
• Tapping into the Real Source
• Living Above Your Circumstances
• Discovering Hope
To order booklets, call 1-800-876-9880. These and other topical booklets are also available for churches and evacuees to download in PDF format and print as needed. Visit www.lhm.org/special/hk_resources.htm to find titles of downloadable booklets.
Click the links below to find out how Lutheran organizations are assisting hurricane victims, how you can help, and how you can share what your church is doing.
Disaster Needs & News
How to Help | Churches Assisting Survivors | Resources for Survivors | Resources for Churches | Status of Lutheran Churches in Affected Areas | Survivor Stories
Purpose of LHM's Hurricane Efforts
Lutheran Hour Ministries is teaming with other Lutheran organizations to provide relief and spiritual and emotional support to hurricane survivors. While LCMS World Relief, Orphan Grain Train, and other organizations are concentrating on providing long-term physical relief, Lutheran Hour Ministries is concentrating on equipping churches and church members to reach out to hurting survivors with spiritual support.
Lutheran Hour Ministries is a media and congregational outreach ministry supporting The Lutheran Church—Missouri Synod, Lutheran Church—Canada, and churches worldwide. It is also known as the International Lutheran Laymen’s League, a volunteer movement of more than 100,000 supporters. The ministry airs TV, radio, and Internet programming in more than 50 countries and has ministry centers in 41 nations. Its flagship radio program is The Lutheran Hour, the world’s longest-running Christian outreach radio program, airing since 1930. Learn more about LHM's hurricane ministry efforts on the ministry's Web site.
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