USS Synod continues accompaniment of LCL

The Upper Susquehanna Synod of the ELCA continues its faithful accompaniment of the Lutheran Church in Liberia.  In November of 2007, it will send yet one more container of supplies for the LCL, and its schools and health care ministries. This will be the synod’s 23^rd shipping container sent since 1991.

During January and February of 2007, the synod sent its 7^th team of volunteers for a six-week work visit. This year there were four volunteers from the USS who left for Liberia, on January 16^th and returned home March 1^st.

Ruth Koble from Sunbury , Pa., Sandra Nelson from Trout Run, Pa., and F. Marlee Yant from Springfield, MO, were based at the Lutheran Training Institute (LTI) in Lofa County, assisting with adult literacy training. More on happenings at LTI...

A fourth USS volunteer, Frank Marano Jr. from Mt. Laurel, NJ was joined by ELCA Global Mission volunteers Gary Winters from Reinholds, PA, and Butch and Jim Foster, from Livingston, MT, at Curran Hospital, heading up reconstruction efforts with a large team of Liberian workers.  The construction crew was able to build trusses and roof the remaining unfinished part of the hospital (covering the entire structure – 9,000 sq. feet – with metal roofing in 28 days), and finish a separate 4-room short stay building.  More on happenings at Curran Hospital...

USS hopes to again send another volunteer team next January for six weeks. If you are interested in joining a future volunteer work team, please contact the chair of the Upper Susquehanna companion synod committee, Bob Bradford. You need not be from the Upper Susquehanna Synod. Please specify your areas of expertise and experience along with your level of interest.  E-mail: bradford@evenlink.com.
Phone: 570.374.4345

The USS/LCL companion synod committee meets regularly every two months to attend to the work of accompanying the Lutheran Church in Liberia.  The committee is in the process of exploring with the LCL ways to strengthen congregation to congregation linkages within the larger USS/LCL relationship.