Many Donations Gathered for OGT at Event Held in Tucson
OGT Phoenix Branch has been spreading our mission at several different events the past two months. The second event that the Phoenix Branch attended was the annual luncheon for the Lutheran Social Services of the Southwest, held in Phoenix. Jo Riester, is on the Board of Directors and an OGT Volunteer from Tucson, AZ. Jean…
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Many Wonderful Events Helping to Promote OGT
OGT Phoenix Branch has been spreading our mission at several different events the past two months. The first activity was the Best Practices Ministry held on February 13-15 at Christ Church Lutheran Phoenix. Pastor Ralph Schmidt, Tom Watson and Pete Gnan represented the OGT International office and shared the history and current events of OGT….
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Great Visit From Recipient
On Tuesday, February 18. Pastor Carl Hampsch and his wife Karen, with Casa de Esperanza Orphanage, (House of Hope), located in Puerto Penasco, Mexico, located about 170 miles from Phoenix, stopped at the Phoenix warehouse. Puerto Penasco is known as Rocky Point to the people who live in Arizona, a favorite vacation spot for many…
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Emanuel Ministries Delivers Aid from OGT Phoenix Branch to San Luis Mexico
On January 30, Doru (Pastor Mike) Neamtu, with Emanuel Ministries, came to the Phoenix warehouse and picked up a box of pillowcase dresses and a box of quilts to take with him on February 22, when he will travel to San Luis, Mexico. Those will be delivered to the orphanage he works with there. There…
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LWML’s Women’s Retreat Volunteer
On Friday, January 24, 2025, OGT/Phoenix opened our warehouse to visitors attending a LWML Women’s Retreat in Phoenix. These women came from Southern California, Nevada and Arizona. Twenty women came to see our operation and many stayed and worked for a couple of hours. They were an enthusiastic group and managed to fill twenty-three boxes…
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Beautiful Pillowcase Dresses Sewn
Our winter visitor/volunteer, Carol Wrede and her Quilter’s on Wheels, located in Apache Junction, AZ, made twenty-four pillowcase dresses for OGT Phoenix Branch. This group of women had a work day on January 9 and each women made at least one dress. Carol used a Thrivent Action Team card and prepared a dress kit for…
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Wonderful Volunteers Sort and Pack 115 Boxes & Made 30 Hygiene Kits
In early December, Phoenix Branch had 22 volunteers, the most ever at one time, sort and box donations. They not only made 30 Hygiene Kits, but also filled 115 boxes with the newly sorted donations. Six of the men put up additional steel racking in the warehouse, providing us with additional storage. Phoenix also had…
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Lutheran Boder Concerns – San Diego Grateful for Donations Received
Pastor Ramon Contreras, with Lutheran Border Concerns-San Diego was in Phoenix attending a conference. He stopped at our Phoenix Branch warehouse and picked up a truck load of donations to take back to the border with him. Pictured with Pastor Ramon is Susan Thomas our Branch Secretary. He was given blankets, sleeping mats, and clothing.
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Many Helped By Aid Delivered
On November 19th, the Phoenix Branch volunteers loaded a 26-foot truck and delivered 612 boxes, bikes and medical supplies to the Tohono O’odham Nation, in Sells, AZ. The donations are distributed between fourteen districts with the Nation which cover a total of 2.8 million acres of land about the size of the State of Connecticut….
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