Hurricane Katrina Response

We are now in our third year of responding to Hurricane Katrina. Our hurricane relief partners continue to request prayers, volunteers, materials and equipment.

Volunteers are vital to the recovery process along the Gulf Coast. The volunteer camps and communities helped by Orphan Grain Train include Camp Biloxi, Camp Restore (New Orleans), Venice and Houma, Louisiana.

2007 Katrina Response report
Katrina Relief shipments list

Contributions for the Katrina Relief effort and Domestic Disaster Response are critical to sustain this effort. Without the generous donations received over the past two years, the Katrina relief effort would not exist.

Ways You Can Help
Donate online or by mail

Multimedia

Hurricane Katrina Response streaming video

Katrina response photo gallery - 2006
Katrina response photo gallery - 2005
Katrina shipments photos

Hurricane relief stories

2007 Katrina Response report (Dec. 10, 2007)
Fall 2006 Katrina Response update (Nov. 3, 2006)
Summer 2006 Katrina Response update (June 14, 2006)
Mobile kitchen trailer constructed for relief camps (Aug. 30, 2006)
Mobile bedroom units constructed for relief camps (June 26, 2006)
Seth Kaiser's May Newsletter - Who is God's Hands and Feet? (Apr. 27, 2006)
Indiana Regional Division's hurricane shipments list (Apr. 13, 2006)
Restroom trailer completed for Biloxi, Miss. volunteers (Mar. 24, 2006)
Missouri-Illinois Division volunteers' story in Land Line Magazine (Mar. 20, 2006)
Shower trailer a hit among Biloxi volunteers (Mar. 9, 2006)
Hay lift for Louisiana (Feb. 24, 2006)
New $100,000 matching fund grant from LCMS World Relief/Human Care (Feb. 23, 2006)
Seth Kaiser's March Newsletter - One Story of Hope (Feb. 21, 2006)
eHay Weekly Louisiana hay lift article (Feb. 20, 2006)
Tucson Weekly: My Katrina Diary, by Brandon Kosters (Feb. 10, 2006)
Biloxi house-building project nearing completion (Feb. 8, 2006)
Kansas Wheat Commission and Harvest Lark Foods donate 20,000 wheat bars
Seth Kaiser's letter from Metairie, La. (Jan. 27, 2006)
"Mississippi's Invisible Coast" from the Biloxi Sun Herald (Jan. 24, 2006)
Shipment arrives in time for Christmas in Houma (Jan. 4, 2006)
Affiliated Midwest Foodstores partners with Orphan Grain Train
Concordia University, Nebraska lends a helping hand
LWML sending survivor kits to Orphan Grain Train
Missouri-Illinois Division Katrina relief update (Sept. 13, 2005)
US 92 Radio "Pay to Play" fund-raiser
Hurricane Response Hotline

Thank You!

Orphan Grain Train thanks all the volunteer truckers who are hauling relief supplies to Katrina survivors and relief centers on the Gulf Coast.

Thank you to the cash donors who have made it possible for Orphan Grain Train to nearly triple the $375,000 received from LCMS World Relief and Human Care. Thank you to all who continue to support this work with additional gifts and volunteer time.

Orphan Grain Train's name and character are explained by the words of Christ recorded in the Gospel of John, chapter 14, verse 18, "I will not leave you as orphans; I will come to you."