Photo gallery: Volunteers respond after Illinois tornado

Dozens of chainsaw specialists joined more than 200 Lutheran volunteers on Saturday, April 11, to clean up after an EF-F tornado struck Northern Illinois on April 9.

The Rev. Michael Meyer, Disaster Response Manager for the LCMS Office of National Mission (ONM), traveled from The Lutheran Church—Missouri Synod’s International Center in St. Louis to affected towns like Rochelle, Ill., on April 10. He joined volunteers from Lutheran Church Charities (LCC) and LCMS districts across Illinois to assist the distressed communities.

Photographs by Al Dowbnia / LCMS Communications
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