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Pastor Greenlee shows Mark Vance destruction from huge oak trees.

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Listen Listen to a conversation between Pastors Schupmann and Greenlee regarding the huge oak trees that fell during Hurricane Gustav.

Support for hurriance relief can be found on “More Gifting Opprtunities” under Hurricane Relief.

To volunteer contact Mark Vance at mark.vance@wels.net.

Pastor Chris Esmay in Alexandria, La., reports that their church, King of Kings, suffered extensive damage from Hurricane Gustav.  Pastor Esmay and his wife and two young children escaped their parsonage as about four feet of water rolled into their home and church.  WELS Committee on Relief is providing financial assistance so that Pastor Esmay and his wife can rent an apartment until the church can decide what to do with their parsonage and church.  Pastor Schupmann, Chairman of WELS Relief and Mark Vance, Project Coordinator, are planning to be on site in the next day or two to help with the damage assessment.  This is the fourth time in the last 30 years this church has had flooding although none as bad as this.  Unfortunately, this congregation has no flood insurance and so they will need our assistance to help rebuild.    We will be letting people know who have volunteered their assistance if they can be of help to this congregation. 

Listen Listen to a conversation between Pastors Schupmann and Esmay regarding the flood damage to the church and parsonage.

Support for hurriance relief can be found on “More Gifting Opprtunities“ under Hurricane Relief.

To volunteer contact Mark Vance at mark.vance@wels.net.