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Response to the Devastating Earthquake in Haiti

Donate Now | Message from ELCA Presiding Bishop Hanson 
 
Contributions can be made online or through the synod office.  Checks should be made out the Greater Milwaukee Synod.  Indicate that your gift is to be directed to disaster relief in Haiti.  100% of contributuions made to Lutheran Disaster Response will go directly to the relief effort.
 
The Country of Haiti was struck Jan. 12 by a 7.0 magnitude earthquake that left many schools, hospitals and buildings in ruins -- thousands are feared dead.  Prone to natural disasters and one the poorest countries in the Western hemisphere, Haiti is ill-equipped to respond to disasters of this magnitude.
 
The ELCA, through the Lutheran World Federation, is already responding to the critical needs of survivors in Haiti.  Thankfully, the LWF offices and staff on the island were spared in the earthquake, making it possible for work to begin immediately.  Staff there will focus their immediate efforts on issues of water safety and sanitation, assisting with medical triage, and providing emergency sheltering for the many who are now homeless.  The ELCA has long-standing relationships in Haiti through several organizations and the Lutheran Church in Haiti.

In anticipation of your generous gifts, ELCA Disaster Response has authorized $250,000 for immediate relief assistance in Haiti, with the possibility for an additional $500,000 as the full scope of this disaster continues to become clear.  Your gifts are needed now to make this type of rapid response possible.

 

Rostered Leader Reports

 

All rostered leaders are asked to fill out an annual Report Form to the Bishop of the synod.  This is especially important as Jeff Barrow begins his work as our new bishop.  Please submit these by e-mail (mary@milwaukeesynod.org) or snail mail to the synod office by February 28

Please find the appropriate form below.  Formatta Filler is required and can be downloaded here.

 

Advent message from Bishop-elect Jeff

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Weekly Word from Bishop David Olson

On my birthday, April 4, 1968,  Dr. King was assassinated in Memphis.  My working class congregation, in somewhat segregated Baltimore, might have been cynical.  After all the FBI was tracking him and openly charged him with being communist.  But that was not my people’s response.   At my meeting that night was with the Ladies’ Aid, they needed to talk.  It was somber.

They were shocked that a clergyman would be shot and especially because they recalled his words of non-violence and his obvious call for justice.   This is was not a congregation used to engaging in social justice issues or even hearing sermons about it.  I had not led them into social engagement.  But, martyrdom is persuasive.

Now nearly forty-two years later, what is the heritage of MLK (before it turns into another shopping bonanza)?

His martyrdom cannot be lightly dismissed.   The assassinations of the 60’s left a mark on more than one generation.  It was so for early Christianity; the church emerged in the blood of the martyrs.   We feel it for Bonhoeffer, for Lincoln, for Joan of Arc.

 

  
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