ELCA News Blog
July 12, 2006
Lutheran Disaster Response reports continued recovery efforts
by Katherine R. Hinck*, ELCA News Service
In the Northeast United States, communities continue flood recovery efforts. Lutheran Disaster Response (LDR), a ministry of the Evangelical Lutheran Church in America and Lutheran Church- Missouri Synod, also reported that several Lutheran congregations in Maryland and the Washington, D.C., area were affected by the flooding.
According to a July 11 LDR report, the worst flooding conditions appear to be in Pennsylvania communities along the Delaware River and its tributaries. LDR volunteer crews are being assembled in Bucks and Montgomery Counties. In New Jersey, at least 54 homes in Stockton were heavily damaged or destroyed, the report said, and Warren, Hunterdon and Mercer Counties have been federally declared as disaster areas by the Federal Emergency Management Agency.
*Katherine R. Hinck is a senior journalism and religion major at Augustana College, Sioux Falls, S.D. This summer she is an intern with the ELCA News Service. For information contact: John Brooks, Director (773) 380-2958 or news@elca.org http://www.elca.org/news ELCA News Blog: http://www.elca.org/news/blog