Trainings & Deployments From: LCMS Disaster Response & Training

LERT volunteers are needed for multiple tasks at Saxon Lutheran Memorial. We will fell and remove 2 dead trees and approximately 40+ widow makers. We will have a lift available for this work. Chainsaw operators are required to wear all required PPE. Two volunteers with experience will dig a trench with a trencher to place a new buried electric line to the old Carpentry shop, and will place new LED lighting.

Another group will be moving old logs and lumber as well as cutting out the deteriorated portions of the old logs. We hope to bring our skid steer to help with this task.

LERT volunteers are also needed to do finish work in the last few bathrooms in the new bathroom building. Volunteers will need to bring their own carpentry tools for this work.

All volunteers are encouraged to wear yellow LERT shirts or vests. NOTE: we welcome all volunteers to attend this deployment even if you don't have the skills necessary to do the above work. We will mentor you. Please consider signing up for the entire week or just for one or two days. All are welcome.

Housing is available in the newly restored cabin across from the new bathroom house. It has 4 rooms and is airconditioned. There are 2 beds in one of the rooms (first come first served). Or you could bring a cot or air mattress. Bathrooms and showers are near the cabin. Volunteers will need to bring all of their own bedding and towels etc. There are RV spots in nearby Altenburg and near Perryville. Please contact Kris Schuldt if you need housing. pitchatent@centurytel.net.

All meals, water and Gatorade will be provided.

Description: Local LERT members will team up with Orphan Grain Train to reconstruct pasture fences destroyed in the Spring 2026 fires. The ranch site is near Hyannis, Neb. This is an opportunity to help ranchers who lost many miles of fences in the fires. All tools and materials will be provided by OGT, however you may bring your favorite fencing pliers and leather gloves. LERT members should bring pillows, sleeping bags, and towels; OGT will provide water. Work clothes should be appropriate for the season and work.  

Note, communications are difficult in the area of work as there is no phone service.  

The plan is to leave Orphan Grain Train facility, 601 W. Phillip Avenue, Norfolk, NE at 7:00 AM, Monday, July 27th and return Thursday afternoon, July 30th. The drive from Norfolk to Hyannis is approximately 260 miles, so the crew will only make the trip once during the week, unless a team member drives on their own.

Join us Saturday, AUGUST 22nd, from 12:30–2:30 pm for a General Cleanup of the homeless encampment located at the Pig's Eye Regional Park, East St. Paul, MN.  LERT trained and non-trained volunteers are welcome - 18 years and older.   No background check is necessary.

We will be serving a great feast, picking up garbage, distributing relief supplies, etc., all the while having opportunity to be Christ's presence among a population in great need of mercy.

Carpooling is advisable as parking is limited at the 1200 Warner Rd., St. Paul, (at the intersection with Fishhatchery Rd) address. 

Dress appropriately for the work and the weather.  If you have either a LERT T-shirt or work vest, please bring them along to wear.  We will have some available for those who don't have them.

PLEASE DO REGISTER or email fysherofmen@gmail.com with your group numbers!  We need to be prepared for the actual numbers that are coming!  Thank you for your consideration!