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Dear Christian friends,
"It will be three or four weeks before electricity will be fully restored
in the rural areas of upstate New York," said Pastor Steve Biegner of St.
Andrew Lutheran Church, South Glens Falls. As communications improve, the
immediate needs of the ice storms are becoming more and more apparent.
Bishop Lee Miller reports that rural homeowners and especially dairy
farmers in the Watertown area, Redwood, and Mooers, are in a present crisis
because there is no electricity for heating homes and sustaining dairy
farming.
In addition to direct emergency cash grants, Lutheran Disaster Response is
arranging for forty electric generators to be shipped from Fargo, North
Dakota, to upstate New York. These generators were used in the Red River
floods last year, and may be used later this spring in the Devil's Lake,
North Dakota, area. Meanwhile, the response of the church to the needs of
one area of our country will multiply blessings in response to another.
Please keep the people of the Northeast in your prayers: that they may be
sustained in their winter difficulties; that their electrical energy will
be restored quickly; and that they can return soon to undamaged homes and
farming.
In Christ,
Gil Furst
GILBERT B. FURST (written on Fri, Jan 16, 1998, at 3:00 pm)
Associate Director, ELCA Domestic Disaster Response
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