Disaster Relief

Hurricane disaster relief supplies & food were delivered for families in Wray, GA. Wisconsin Branch volunteers loaded nearly 22,000 pounds of various foods, 19,008 Food for Kidz rice & oatmeal meals, bedding, diapers, and other needed supplie...

Christ Lutheran Church’s Servants of the Savior (SOS) group purchased & assembled 128 hygiene kits at OGT’s Servant Center in Norfolk, NE. Thank you for providing these much-needed kits! SOS is an affiliate of Lutheran Laymen’s League, LLL....

34 bales of hay were loaded and are on their way to Birney, MT to help a rancher feed his livestock after fires burned his grasslands in September. This is the second load of hay for Montana with another one planned soon. The fires spread into Wyomin...

Norfolk Warehouse was blessed with two trucks and a trailer filled with disaster relief supplies for N.C. from Washington & Marshall Counties in northern Kansas. Many families & schools in several towns were involved with the gathering of foo...

OGT continues to help families in need of roof repairs in Louisiana since hurricane Ida in 2021. We have been working with Toi Carter with Louisiana Just Recovery Network by providing roofing materials and she shared these pictures of more roofs bein...

St. John’s, St. Paul and Immanuel Lutheran churches from Wakefield, NE came together to pack School Kits for OGT. Thank you for purchasing and assembling these much-needed kits....

OGT’s 2nd 5,300-gallon water tanker left Monday for Calvary Church in Asheville, N. Carolina to assist with no running water due to damaged water pipes. We are working with Fuller Center Disaster ReBuilders (whom we’ve worked with in the past...

New England Branch donors & volunteers are assisting victims of Hurricane Helene in NC, TN & VA. Volunteers loaded 1,800 pounds for various foods, boxes of Hygiene supplies, medical supplies, blankets, layette kits, tools, disaster cleaning b...

Christina Steffan and her 9-year-old daughter Clara put together 29 Hygiene kits to be shared with people in N. Carolina. They put these together every year for OGT and are grateful these will comfort families devastated from the horrific floods. Tha...