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Canadian Lutheran World Relief and the Evangelical Lutheran Church in Canada are calling on Lutherans and friends across Canada to pray for those affected by the devastating earthquakes in Venezuela, and to give generously to support urgent humanitarian needs.

On June 24, a rare sequence of two major earthquakes struck Venezuela just 39 seconds apart, causing devastation across one of the country's most densely populated regions, including Caracas and surrounding states. 

With your support, we will help provide: 

  • Emergency shelter, blankets and bedding 
  • Clean water, hygiene and sanitation supplies 
  • Essential household items 

Please donate now at www.clwr.org/venezuela or call 1-800-661-2597 (Mon–Fri, 9 a.m. to 4 p.m. CST). Your gift will help provide life-saving assistance to families whose lives have been changed in an instant. You can also donate through Gloria Dei by cheque or e-transfer to office@gloriadei.ca Simply mark your donation "Venezuela Earthquake."  

Loving God, strengthen all impacted by the earthquakes in Venezuela.

accompany all who grieve, who suffer, who are in pain.

Support all who seek to provide care, 

who sit with the grieving, who search for the living. 

In Jesus name, we pray. Amen. 

~ from the ELCIC Faceook post.