Three years ago Pastor Jeff Ungs, Director of Evangelical Mission of the Western Iowa Synod, brought a gift of 100 flood recovery buckets during the flood in Greene, Clarksville, and Shell Rock.
The next summer the Northeastern Iowa Synod collected 300 buckets during the Synod Assembly.
They only stayed in storage a few weeks until flooding in Sumner one summer and Mason City the next almost completely depleted our supply.
This spring, the Northeastern Iowa Synod Disaster Response Network announced that while it had intended to ask congregations to once again bring flood recovery buckets to the Assembly, there was a more immediate need for buckets and a real danger of additional severe flooding.