Congregational Preparedness Workshops

Learn how to help your congregation prepare before the next disaster impacts your community!  Bring a team from your congregation to a FREE Congregational Preparedness Workshop near you.  Choose from these dates and locations:

August 29: Christus Victor, Columbia SC
September 19: Our Father, Greensboro NC
October 17: Location TBD
November 7: Friendship, Taylorsville
November 21: St Michael, Greenville

Workshops begin at 10 am and end by 2 pm on each of these dates.  Lunch is provided.  Pre-registration is required.  Use this QR code or register here.

For more information, contact Ruth Ann Sipe at ruthann@ldrcarolinas.org

2026 Preparedness Mini-Grants

Thanks to funding from the Michael Peeler/Virginia Casey Fund in North Carolina and the SC Synod, LDR Carolinas was recently able to provide Preparedness Mini-Grants up to $750 to 26 congregations and ministries. The proposed projects included first aid kits and training, Stop the Bleed kits, AEDs, fire extinguishers, emergency flashlights, Darkness to Light training, Unwanted Intruder training, and more.

NC recipients included:
Agape + Kure Beach Ministries
Emmanuel, High Point
Friendship, Taylorsville
Good Shepherd, Goldsboro
Good Shepherd, Raleigh
Lebanon, Cleveland
Lord of Life, Garner
Morning Star, Matthews
Old St. Paul, Newton
St. John, Taylorsville
St. Martin, Concord
St. Paul, Crouse
Shiloh, Lewisville

SC recipients included:
Bethel, White Rock
Colony, Newberry
Emmanuel, West Columbia
Messiah, Hanahan
Mt. Hermon, West Columbia
Pisgah, Lexington
Re: CenterGVL, Greenville
St. Matthew, Pomaria
St. Paul, Aiken
St. Peter, Pawley’s Island
St. Thomas, Chapin
Shepherd of the Sea, Murrells Inlet
SC Lutheran Retreat Centers
Trinity, Georgetown