Daily Donation

Pledge to give $1 a day (or more) to Lutheran Disaster Response for the 40 days of Lent.

Of course, you don’t have to donate every day. One donation per person, or per family, or per congregation during Lent is fine. We’re suggesting a minimum or $50 in support of the hunger and water projects at the Navajo Evangelical Lutheran Mission.

Remember, we’re counting individual participation, so the more people signed up per synod, the better. The total donation amount for Lutheran Disaster Responsse per synod is not the criterion we’ll use for determining the winner.

Don't want to donate online? Fine!

• Give through your synod office. Make checks payable to “Lutheran Disaster Response” and add Appeal Code ‘R2LENT2025’ in the memo line.

• Give through your congregation. Make checks payable to your congregation, write “Lutheran Disaster Response” and Appeal Code R2LENT2025 in the memo line, and place your gift in the offering plate.

• Give by phone. Call 800-638-3522 Monday-Friday, 8:00am-5:00pm central time and mention Appeal Code R2LENT2025.

• Send your check to Lutheran Disaster Response. Make checks payable to “Lutheran Disaster Response,” add Appeal Code R2LENT2025 in the memo line, and mail to: Evangelical Lutheran Church in America, P.O. Box 1809, Merrifield, VA 22116-8009.

Why Lutheran Disaster Response?

The 40-40-40 Region 2 Lenten Challenge for 2025 supports Lutheran Disaster Response (LDR) and our Church’s call to respond to nonconventional disasters, including the work at Navajo Evangelical Lutheran Mission (NELM). NELM is a 70-year-old ministry of the ELCA in Rock Point, Arizona, where more than half the households either do not have running water or do not have access to safe drinking water. Gifts generated through this challenge support LDR projects such as providing holding tanks and an automated water distribution system for filtration and chlorination for our siblings in Christ on the Navajo reservation.