Last Thursday, Faith hosted a meal for 170 shelter residents, including the families of fire fighters from the evacuated town of Pinesdale. Faith is also serving as temporary shelter for children with special challenges. Both congregations continue to respond in Hamilton, Montana, with the help of LCMS World Relief, ELCA Domestic Domestic Response and Lutheran Social Services of Montana. These efforts are now being coordinated as Lutheran Disaster Response of Montana. Please encourage congregations to continue to remember in prayer those affected by fires, smoke, fear, hopelessness as well as those who are responding with the love of Christ.
Fires continue to plague the western and northwestern United States.
Lutheran Disaster Response is committed to being a resource for congregations in their communities for the long term. See below the article for related items you can use with the article. ELCA continues response to western wildfires in Montana Western wildfires in the Hamilton, Montana, area are out because of some welcome and early precipitation. But residents' needs caused by the fires continue. It is helping to provide for physical needs such as food, laundry services and other commodities as well as locating returning families, assessing needs and identifying resources.