SELC

The SELC District Disaster Relief Coordinator (DDRC) is Steve Lehenbauer.  Steve is the Chief Administrative Officer at St. Luke’s Lutheran Church in Oviedo FL.  He is a 1985 Concordia Seward graduate with experience as a classroom teacher, technology director and school and church administration.  He is LERT certified and has taken part in multiple disaster relief events.  In the role of DDRC, he will coordinate any emergency needs in our district.

Each congregation of the SELC District should:

• Designate a member to serve as a disaster information officer.  This person will be the liaison when other churches need help and take the lead to communicate with the DDRC if help is needed.
• Promote, encourage and implement a Lutheran Early Response Team (LERT). This team should schedule regular yearly events to assist in your local community and prepare to travel regionally to assist other communities as needed.
• Make contact with the local geographical LCMS district to coordinate training for LERT certification.
• Designate at least one Sunday a year to promote disaster preparedness.  This may include collecting flood buckets, collecting donations for disaster relief, providing FEMA disaster preparation information, encouraging LERT training, .....
• Create an emergency guide.  See example from St. Luke's Oviedo.
• Create a disaster recovery plan.  See examples from FEMA.