IOWA FLOOD FUNDS HAVE BEEN DISTRIBUTED
By the International Lutheran Laymen’s League district board in our Iowa District East. A gift was given to the League from an anonymous couple that gave over $54,000 who wanted it to go to Iowa churches and their families. The League worked with Rev. Rothschild from our district office in identifying families and congregations who had the greatest amount of dollar loss and suffering.
A few weeks ago Adam Eggemayer from Lutheran Hour Ministries, Keith Schmidt, president of the Iowa Intl. L L L district board, and Ron Stahlberg the President of Zone # 2 personally handed out checks to St Johns in Waverly, Iowa and Trinity and Bethany in Cedar Rapids, Iowa. They identified that St John was the only church really affected by flood waters as their whole basement was filled with water and they lost most items one would find in most church basements such as heating and cooling systems, kitchens and extra storage for a multitude of items saved through history.
As many as 40 plus families were affected by the flooding in a couple of the churches. Working with Rev. Rothchild, our Assistant to the President of IDE,158 families were found in IDE as suffering from flood loss and they came from 24 churches. No families were identified personally, and they were given quantities of funds, as decided by their churches, not the League. Remaining checks were mailed to various churches with affected families. There also are a couple of photos of St. John’s looking like it desperately needed an island built on the rock in this blog-spot. However the good news is, it still stands as a witness to Iowa of our LCMS faith. Also the IDE website has a section called St John Church, Waverly Iowa - Flood Recovery Needs you might also visit this link.
John T Moeller For the Intl L L L Iowa East District board
