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Pray in secret 

When you pray, you are not to be lik e the hypocrites; for they love to stand and pray in the synagogues and on  the street corners so that they may be seen by men. Truly I say to you, the y have their reward in full. 

But you, when you pray, go into yo ur inner room, close your door and pray to your Father who is in secret, an d your Father who sees what is done in secret will reward you. 

 And when you are praying, do not use meaningless repetition as the Gentiles  do, for they suppose that they will be heard for their many words. So do n ot be like them; for your Father knows what you need before you ask Him. ES R KOTI REDDY, GRACE MINISTRIES.. GUNTUR-522009 PERECHERLA- POST,PLS MY WEB: www.graceministriesinternational.in,,,www.emmvjuniorcollege.org 

 
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Pray in secret 

When you pray, you a re not to be like the hypocrites; for they love to stand and pray in the sy nagogues and on the street corners so that they may be seen by men. Truly I  say to you, they have their reward in full. 

But you, when you  pray, go into your inner room, close your door and pray to your Father who  is in secret, and your Father who sees what is done in secret will reward y ou. 

And when you are praying, do not use meaningless repetition  as the Gentiles do, for they suppose that they will be heard for their man y words. So do not be like them; for your Father knows what you need before  you ask Him. ESR KOTI REDDY, GRACE MINISTRIES.. GUNTUR-522009 PERECHERLA-  POST,PLS MY WEB:www.graceministriesinternational.in,,,www.emmvjuniorcollege .org 

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Date: Tue, 31 Mar 2009 13:53:13 -0500
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Subject: ELCA Launches 'Brand Campaign' on National Cable, Local
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Title: ELCA Launches 'Bra nd Campaign' on National Cable, Local Television
ELCA NEWS SERVICE
 

March 31, 2009 

ELCA Launches 'Brand Campaign' on Natio nal Cable, Local Television
09-075-JB

CHICAGO (ELCA) -- The  Evangelical Lutheran Church in America
(ELCA) will launched a nationa l television "brand campaign" March
30 on national cable channels and  in selected television markets.
A second campaign will follow beginnin g May 11.
"The purpose of the ELCA brand campaign is to grow awareness 
of the Evangelical Lutheran Church in America and inspire members
 
to invite others to a worship service," said Kristi S. Bangert,
exe cutive director, ELCA Communication Services. "After two years
of rese arch, testing and tweaking, the ads are ready for prime
time."
Th rough April 19 two ELCA television spots featuring the tag
line "God's  work, our hands," will air on the Cable News Network
(CNN), Headline  News (HLN), the Fox News channel, Home & Garden
Television (HGTV) and  the Do It Yourself (DIY) Network.
One spot, "Dignity," features Trinit y Lutheran Church,
Bismarck, N.D., in its outreach to people who are h omeless and
hungry. The other spot, "Hope," features a Lutheran missio n in
Senegal that teaches business skills to women. The spots can be 
viewed at http://www.ELCA.org/ads/tv on the ELCA Web site.
The s pots also will be broadcast locally in Fargo-Valley
City, N.D.; Minnea polis-St. Paul, Minn.; Minot-Bismarck-
Dickinson, N.D.; Rochester, Min n.-Mason City, Iowa-Austin Minn.;
and Sioux Falls, S.D. Bangert said t hese markets were chosen
because many Lutherans reside in these areas,  and congregations
are experiencing significant growth in ELCA baptize d membership.
ELCA Communication Services staff worked with Tom, Dick  &
Harry Advertising, Chicago, to arrange the advertising schedule.
 
The television ads are supported with print, outdoor and
online adv ertising artwork that can be used by congregations,
Bangert said. Thes e materials will be available at
http://www.ELCA.org/ads on the ELCA W eb site.
Congregations can also help spread awareness of the
camp aign, she said. A congregational marketing kit, featuring
bulletin ins erts, postcards, posters and an outdoor banner
supporting the campaign  will be available online. Components
will be posted throughout April  at http://www.ELCA.org/ads/kit on
the ELCA Web site.
The brand ca mpaign is timely given the uncertain economic
outlook, Bangert said. " This church wants people to know that we
are out there offering hope a nd care -- doing God's work with our
hands," she said.
"By puttin g this comprehensive plan into action, we hope to
spread the word abou t what God is doing in and through the ELCA,"
Bangert said.

 
For information contact:
John Brooks, Director (773) 380-2958 or ne ws@elca.org
http://www.elca.org/news
ELCA News Blog: http://www.e lca.org/news/blog

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Date: Tue, 31 Mar 2009 21:44:20 +0200
From: "WCC Media"  
Subject: Re: WCC NEWS: NATO urged to move towards a
nuclear-weap on-free world
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Wor ld Council of Churches - News Release
Contact: +41 22 791 6153 +41 79  507 6363 media@wcc-coe.org
For immediate release - 31/03/2009

 
MOVE TOWARDS A NUCLEAR-WEAPON-FREE WORLD, CHURCHES TELL NATO

 [Issued jointly by the World Council of Churches and the
Conference of  European Churches]

A world without nuclear weapons is not only  possible but more
secure, leaders of the North Atlantic Treaty Organiz ation (NATO)
have been told by a coalition of national, regional and g lobal
councils of churches. 

In a 30 March letter, four cou ncils of churches urged the NATO
leadership to "reinforce the vision o f a world without nuclear
weapons", consigning to history the notion t hat nuclear weapons
preserve peace and instead recognizing that they m ake security
more precarious. 

An immediate step towards th at goal, the churches' letter
suggests, would be to update the allianc e's strategic concept and
security doctrine. The alliance should also  show willingness to
remove hundreds of US tactical nuclear weapons sti ll placed in
European countries. 

The letter, signed by the  general secretaries of the World
Council of Churches, the Conference  of European Churches, the
National Council of Churches of Christ USA a nd the Canadian
Council of Churches, comes ahead of the NATO summit of  heads of
State and Government to be held on 3-4 April in Baden-Baden  and
Kehl, Germany, and in Strasbourg, France. 

"We believe  security must be sought through constructive
engagement with neighbors  and that authentic security is found in
affirming and enhancing human  interdependence within God?s one
creation," the letter states. 
 
Full text of the councils of churches' letter to the NATO member
 
states and secretary general 
http://www.oikoumene.org/?id=6723 

NATO's 60th anniversary summit 
http://www.nato.int/docu/c omm/2009/0904-summit/index.html

Additional information: Juan Mic hel +41 22 791 6153 +41 79 507
6363 media@wcc-coe.org

The W orld Council of Churches promotes Christian unity in faith,
witness an d service for a just and peaceful world. An ecumenical
fellowship of c hurches founded in 1948, today the WCC brings
together 349 Protestant,  Orthodox, Anglican and other churches
representing more than 560 mill ion Christians in over 110
countries, and works cooperatively with the  Roman Catholic
Church. The WCC general secretary is Rev. Dr Samuel Ko bia, from
the Methodist Church in Kenya. Headquarters: Geneva, Switzer land.

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Message: 3
 Date: Tue, 31 Mar 2009 15:52:48 -0400
From: Worldwide Faith News 
 
Subject: Volunteer Group Rebuilding New Orleans Lakefront homes
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Church World Service
475  Riverside Drive
New York, New York 10115

New national volu nteer group to rebuild homes in 
neglected New Orleans lakefront commu nity

***EDITORS, PRODUCERS: A media day is planned for May 13 at  conclusion
of the final home in this project. Executive Director of C hurch World
Service and other notables will attend. Final media alert  will be issued
prior to May 13.

NEW ORLEANS, March 31, 2009 --One of the still-neglected tragedies of
Hurricane Katrina, the histo ric lakefront community of Little Woods in
New Orleans' Ninth Ward, wi ll get a rebuilding boost starting in April,
thanks to a first-of-its- kind network of national volunteers spearheaded
by humanitarian agency  Church World Service.

With a one-neighborhood-at-a-time focus,  the ???Neighborhood: New
Orleans??? project will repair or rebuild an  initial 12 homes on
property owned by current or displaced Little Wood s residents during a
four-week effort beginning Sunday, April 19, and  ending Saturday, May
16.

More than 500 volunteers represent ing ten different Christian
denominations from across the United State s have signed up so far to
help rebuild the one-time bustling "fishing  camp" lakefront community.

"Many Christian denominations and ot her faith groups have individually
helped survivors of Hurricanes Katr ina and Rita since 2005," said Bonnie
Vollmering, Church World Service  Associate Director for Domestic
Emergency Response. ???This project i s truly an effort with
denominational groups collaboratingthe first su ch post-Katrina
ecumenical rebuild effort on a national level.???
 

Global agency CWS will work in partnership with the local New Orle ans
long-term recovery organization, the Crescent Alliance Recovery Ef fort
(CARE), and with volunteer teams coordinated by Church World Serv ice
member denominations and partners who are providing the labor.
 

Virtually decimated by Katrina and, before it, significantly damag ed by
Hurricane George in 1998, Little Woods faces the east bank of La ke
Ponchartrain. The formerly vibrant, working class community, and it s
lakefront lined with fishing camps, restaurants and music clubs, had 
been nominated by the New Orleans Landmarks Commission in 1999 as an 
historic landmark.*

But nearly four years after Katrina, l ot after lot still lies untouched
and unrecovered.

In New O rleans, Crescent Alliance Recovery Effort director Ellenor
Simmons poi nts out that since Katrina, most of the rebuilding attention
by outsid e sources has focused on the city's Lower 9th Ward.

???Like the  Lower 9th Ward, Little Woods flooded heavily in Katrina but
it wasn??? t an area where any organization decided to concentrate its
rebuilding  efforts,??? Simmons said.

The Crescent Alliance Recovery Effort , Church World Service and
participating national faith groups are hop ing this initial rebuild
project will be the spark that brings the lon g-time lake community back
together, and that ignites other groups to  help continue with Little
Woods' recovery.

Church World Ser vice, which provides emergency and recovery assistance
following disas ters in the U.S. and internationally, domestically
specializes in help ing faith-based and other community groups establish
long-term recover y organizations that serve disaster survivors whose
needs aren't met t hrough other means.

Church World Service is supported by public  donations and grants and by
some 35 U.S. Protestant, Anglican and Orth odox denominations, which
contributes to the rebuilding project???s un ique ecumenical drive.

"No matter their denominational backgroun d, the Little Woods volunteers
will be working together, mixed in week ly teams, to help restore and
rebuild homes for some of the people of  Little Woods who couldn't afford
to rebuild themselves and who haven't  been helped by the system,"
Vollmering said.

Vollmering no ted that the casework has already been completed for the
houses target ed for the project.

"We're encouraging othe
r groups not to  forget but instead to reinvest
funding, materials, volunteer time and  consciousness to help now in
rebuilding the forgotten communities of  New Orleans, one neighborhood at
a time,??? Vollmering said.

 
Church World Service has established a specific website for the
pro ject, http://www.neighborhoodneworleans.net/.

Some materials for  the rebuild effort have been donated by Habitat for
Humanity.
Na tional denomination groups coordinating the Little Woods volunteer
tea ms include: American Baptist Churches USA, the Christian Church
(Disci ples of Christ), Christian Reformed World Relief Committee, Church
of  the Brethren Disaster Ministries, Lutheran Disaster Response,
Mennonit e Disaster Service, the Presbyterian Church (USA), the Reformed
Church  in America Global Mission, the United Church of Christ, and
United Me thodist Committee on Relief.

Source: Times-Picayune, New Orleans , La., Nov 21, 1999. Author: Lynne
Jensen, Staff writer, Page B1:3.
 

How to help
Contributions to support Church World Service eme rgency response and
recovery efforts may be made online, by phone (800 .297.1516), or sent to
Church World Service, P.O. Box 968, Elkhart, IN  46515.

Media Contacts:
Lesley Crosson, 212-870-2676 lcross on@churchworldservice.org
Jan Dragin, 24/7, 781-925-1526 jdragin@gis.n et

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Pray in secret 

When you pray, you are not to be like the  hypocrites; for they love to stand and pray in the synagogues and on the st reet corners so that they may be seen by men. Truly I say to you, they have  their reward in full. 

But you, when you pray, go into your inn er room, close your door and pray to your Father who is in secret, and your  Father who sees what is done in secret will reward you. 

And wh en you are praying, do not use meaningless repetition as the Gentiles do, f or they suppose that they will be heard for their many words. So do not be  like them; for your Father knows what you need before you ask Him. ESR KOTI  REDDY, GRACE MINISTRIES.. GUNTUR-522009 PERECHERLA- POST,PLS MY WEB:www.gr aceministriesinternational.in,,,www.emmvjuniorcollege.org 

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der Reformation ( Dirk-Michael Gr?tzsch )
2.  New national volunteer group to rebuild homes in neglected
New Orleans  lakefront community (Lesley Crosson)

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Dat e: Tue, 31 Mar 2009 17:16:30 +0200
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Subject: (LWI 03-21-2009) LutheranerInnen aus aller Welt sind ErbInnen 
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LWI online unter: www.lutheranworld.org/News /Welcome.DE.html

LUTHERISCHE WELT-INFORMATION
Postfach 2100 , CH-1211 Genf 2, Schweiz
Deutsche Redaktion: Dirk-Michael Groetzsch 
Tel.: +41-22-791-6352
Fax: +41-22-791-6630 
E-Mail: dmg@lut heranworld.org

LutheranerInnen aus aller Welt sind ErbInnen der  Reformation

Neue Einsichten fuer besseres Zusammenwachsen der lu therischen
Kirchen weltweit

Augsburg (Deutschland)/Genf, 31 . Maerz 2009 (LWI) ? ?Wir sind
wahrlich Erben und Erbinnen der Reforma tion, nicht nur wegen des
Inhalts der theologischen Formulierungen, so ndern vor allem wegen
des mutigen Geistes, der von der Bewegung ausgeh t?, resuemierte
Prof. Dr. Vitor Westhelle von der Lutheran School of T heology in
Chicago (USA) am 31. Maerz in Augsburg (Deutschland). In ei ner
zusammenfassenden Stellungnahme zum Abschluss der internationalen 
Konsultation ?Theologie im Leben lutherischer Kirchen ?
Perspekt iven und Wege zur Verwandlung der Kirchen heute? vom 25.
bis 31. Maerz  in Augsburg betonte der Theologe, dass innerhalb
dieser reformatorisc hen Bewegung das Sprechen als Kirche und das
Sprechen zu der Kirche zu  einer Schnittstelle geworden sei und
sie ?die Gemeinschaft des Kreuze s in ihrer schwachen, instabilen
und unsicheren (Re)Formation? darstel le. 

Es sei die Reformation selbst, die weiter existiere, solang e
mutiger Geist Leben in die Kirche einhauche, betonte der
Theolo gieprofessor vor den rund 120 Teilnehmenden der
Konsultation, die von  der Abteilung fuer Theologie und Studien
(ATS) des Lutherischen Weltbu ndes (LWB) in Zusammenarbeit mit dem
Institut fuer Evangelische Theolo gie der Universitaet Augsburg
veranstaltet wurde.

Mit Blick  auf die Tagung erlaeuterte Westhelle: ?Dieser Geist
wurde beschrieben  als die spannungsreiche Verbindung zwischen der
Stimme, die als Kirch e spricht, und der, die zu der Kirche und
fuer die Menschen, die die G emeinschaft beleben, spricht?. Die
kirchliche Gemeinschaft finde auf d em unsicheren Boden zwischen
Kirche und den Herausforderungen ihres Au ftrags statt. Die Kirche
muesse gleichzeitig eine lehrende Kirche, die  verbindlich
spricht, als auch eine lernende Kirche sein, im Sinne ein er
Kirche, die angesprochen und dadurch korrigiert werde,
unterst rich der Theologe. 

?Von Natur aus ist Gespraech, sofern es wahr haftig ist, immer ein
Ereignis, das in einem Defizit endet, und in die sem Defizit liegt
der Schluessel zum Verstaendnis, ueber welche Themen  noch weiter
diskutiert werden muss?, legte Westhelle im Hinblick auf  die
fortzufuehrenden theologischen Debatten dar. Wuerden diese
De fizite nicht existieren, waere es kein wahrhaftes Gespraech.
Waehrend  der Konsultation sei deutlich geworden, dass
theologische Fragestellun gen ? wie interreligioeser Dialog,
ethische Fragen angesichts der Fina nzkrise sowie die Diskussion
ueber menschliche Sexualitaet ? bei zukue nftigen Gespraechsrunden
und Konsultationen vertieft werden muessten,  so Westhelle.

?Die Konsultation ist eine verheissungsvolle Berei cherung, weil
sie neue Einsichten fuer ein besseres Zusammenwachsen de r
weltweiten lutherischen Kirchen eroeffnet?, so Prof. Dr. Bernd
 Oberdorfer, Lehrstuhlinhaber fuer Evangelische Theologie an der
Univer sitaet Augsburg, zum Abschluss der Tagung im Gespraech mit
der Lutheri schen Welt-Information (LWI). Mit LutheranerInnen aus
aller Welt zusam menzukommen und dabei zu erkennen, dass die
lutherische Tradition uebe r jegliche Unterschiede hinweg
verbinde, sei eine echte Horizonterweit erung. ?Es ist ermutigend
zu erleben, dass wir in aller Vielfaeltigkei t eine gemeinsame
Sprache sprechen und mithilfe dieser an denselben Fr agen
arbeiten?, unterstrich der Theologieprofessor. 

?Diese s Ereignis war eine historische Versammlung, um gemeinsam
auf neue Wei se an der Zukunft der lutherischen Theologie zu
arbeiten; besonders fu er die Regionen, in denen die Kirchen
zahlenmaessig wachsen und die ih re Wuerdigung der lutherischen
Einsichten vertiefen?, resuemierte ATS- Direktorin Pfarrerin Dr.
Karen Bloomquist gegenueber LWI. Die theologi schen Diskussionen
in Augsburg waren laut Bloomquist intensiv und habe n viele
Grenzen und Differenzen durchbrochen. Fuer sie habe ein
T eilnehmer die Tagung sehr treffend zusammengefasst, so
Bloomquist: ?Da s, was uns verbindet, ist nicht unbedingt die
Tatsache, dass wir auf a ehnliche Weise denken, sondern dass wir
auch zukuenftig miteinander di skutieren ? durch die theologischen
Netzwerke, die hier entstanden sin d.? (551 Woerter)

Die Hauptreferate stehen in englischer Sprache  im Format PDF auf
der LWB-Webseite zur Verfuegung unter.
http:// www.lutheranworld.org/What_We_Do/DTS/TLC_Augsburg/Presentations.html
 
* * *

Der Lutherische Weltbund (LWB) ist eine Gemeinschaft  lutherischer
Kirchen weltweit. 1947 in Lund (Schweden) gegruendet, za ehlt er
inzwischen 140 Mitgliedskirchen, denen rund 68,5 Millionen
 
ChristInnen in 79 Laendern weltweit angehoeren.

Das LWB-Sekre tariat befindet sich in Genf (Schweiz). Das
ermoeglicht eine enge Zusa mmenarbeit mit dem Oekumenischen Rat
der Kirchen (OeRK) und anderen we ltweiten christlichen
Organisationen. Der LWB handelt als Organ seiner  Mitgliedskirchen
in Bereichen gemeinsamen Interesses, z. B. oekumenis che und
interreligioese Beziehungen, Theologie, humanitaere Hilfe,
 
Menschenrechte, Kommunikation und verschiedene Aspekte von
Missions - und Entwicklungsarbeit.

Die LUTHERISCHE WELT-INFORMATION (LWI)  wird als
Informationsdienst des Lutherischen Weltbundes (LWB)
he rausgegeben. Veroeffentlichtes Material gibt, falls dies nicht
besonde rs vermerkt ist, nicht die Haltung oder Meinung des LWB
oder seiner Ar beitseinheiten wieder. Die mit ?LWI?
gekennzeichneten Beitraege koenne n kostenlos mit Quellenangabe
abgedruckt werden. 

Dirk-Mich ael Groetzsch
German Editor
The Lutheran World Federation
Of fice for Communication Services
150, route de Ferney
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SWITZERLAND

Telephone +41 22 791 6 1 11
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Message: 2
Date: Tue, 31 Mar 2009 12:00:16 -0400
From: " Lesley Crosson" 
Subject: New national volunteer group to rebuild home s in neglected
New Orleans lakefront community
To: "George Conkli n" ,
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Church World Service
475  Riverside Drive 
New York, New York 10115

New national volu nteer group to rebuild homes in neglected New Orleans
lakefront commun ity

***EDITORS, PRODUCERS: A media day is planned for May 13 at  conclusion
of the final home in this project. Executive Director of Ch urch World
Service and other notables will attend. Final media alert w ill be issued
prior to May 13.

NEW ORLEANS, March 31, 2009- -One of the still-neglected tragedies of
Hurricane Katrina, the histor ic lakefront community of Little Woods in
New Orleans' Ninth Ward, wil l get a rebuilding boost starting in April,
thanks to a first-of-its-k ind network of national volunteers spearheaded
by humanitarian agency  Church World Service.

With a one-neighborhood-at-a-time focus, t he ?Neighborhood: New
Orleans? project will repair or rebuild an initi al 12 homes on
property owned by current or displaced Little Woods res idents during a
four-week effort beginning Sunday, April 19, and endin g Saturday, May
16. 

More than 500 volunteers representing  ten different Christian
denominations from across the United States ha ve signed up so far to
help rebuild the one-time bustling "fishing cam p" lakefront community.

"Many Christian denominations and other  faith groups have individually
helped survivors of Hurricanes Katrina  and Rita since 2005," said Bonnie
Vollmering, Church World Service Ass ociate Director for Domestic
Emergency Response. ?This project is trul y an effort with
denominational groups collaboratingthe first such pos t-Katrina
ecumenical rebuild effort on a national level.?

G lobal agency CWS will work in partnership with the local New Orleans
l ong-term recovery organization, the Crescent Alliance Recovery Effort
 (CARE), and with volunteer teams coordinated by Church World Service
m ember denominations and partners who are providing the labor. 

V irtually decimated by Katrina and, before it, significantly damaged by
 
Hurricane George in 1998, Little Woods faces the east bank of Lake
 Ponchartrain. The formerly vibrant, working class community, and its
l akefront lined with fishing camps, restaurants and music clubs, had
be en nominated by the New Orleans Landmarks Commission in 1999 as an
his toric landmark.*

But nearly four years after Katrina, lot after  lot still lies untouched
and unrecovered. 

In New Orleans,  Crescent Alliance Recovery Effort director Ellenor
Simmons points out  that since Katrina, most of the rebuilding attention
by outside source s has focused on the city's Lower 9th Ward. 

?Like the Lower 9th  Ward, Little Woods flooded heavily in Katrina but
it wasn?t an area w here any organization decided to concentrate its
rebuilding efforts,?  Simmons said.

The Crescent Alliance Recovery Effort, Church Worl d Service and
participating national faith groups are hoping this init ial rebuild
project will be the spark that brings the long-time lake c ommunity back
together, and that ignites other groups to help continue  with Little
Woods' recovery.

Church World Service, which p rovides emergency and recovery assistance
following disasters in the U .S. and internationally, domestically
specializes in helping faith-bas ed and other community groups establish
long-term recovery organizatio ns that serve disaster survivors whose
needs aren't met through other  means.

Church World Service is supported by public donations and  grants and by
some 35 U.S. Protestant, Anglican and Orthodox denomina tions, which
contributes to the rebuilding project?s unique ecumenical  drive.

"No matter their denominational background, the Little W oods volunteers
will be working together, mixed in weekly teams, to he lp restore and
rebuild homes for some of the people of Little Woods wh o couldn't afford
to rebuild themselves and who haven't been helped by  the system,"
Vollmering said.

Vollmering noted that the ca sework has already been completed for the
houses targeted for the proj ect. 

"We're encouraging othe
r groups not to forget but in stead to reinvest
funding, materials, volunteer time and consciousness  to help now in
rebuilding the forgotten communities of New Orleans, o ne neighborhood at
a time,? Vollmering said.

Church World S ervice has established a specific website for the
project, http://www. neighborhoodneworleans.net/.

Some materials for the rebuild effo rt have been donated by Habitat for
Humanity.
National denominati on groups coordinating the Little Woods volunteer
teams include: Ameri can Baptist Churches USA, the Christian Church
(Disciples of Christ),  Christian Reformed World Relief Committee, Church
of the Brethren Disa ster Ministries, Lutheran Disaster Response,
Mennonite Disaster Servic e, the Presbyterian Church (USA), the Reformed
Church in America Globa l Mission, the United Church of Christ, and
United Methodist Committee  on Relief.

Source: Times-Picayune, New Orleans, La., Nov 21, 19 99. Author: Lynne
Jensen, Staff writer, Page B1:3.

How to h elp
Contributions to support Church World Service emergency response a nd
recovery efforts may be made online, by phone (800.297.1516), or se nt to
Church World Service, P.O. Box 968, Elkhart, IN 46515.

 
Media Contacts: 
Lesley Crosson, 212-870-2676 lcrosson@churchworlds ervice.org 
Jan Dragin, 24/7, 781-925-1526 jdragin@gis.net 

 
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