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.
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About the Evangelical Lutheran Church in America:
The ELCA is one of the largest Christian denominations in the United States, with 2.8 million members in more than 8,500 worshiping communities across the 50 states and in the Caribbean region. Known as the church of "God's work. Our hands.," the ELCA emphasizes the saving grace of God through faith in Jesus Christ, unity among Christians and service in the world. The ELCA's roots are in the writings of the German church reformer Martin Luther.
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