10 May Lancaster UB Helps Tornado Victims

Greg Voight (right), Senior Pastor, Lancaster UB Church (Lancaster, Ohio)

On Mother’s Day, the Lancaster UB Church partnered with several area churches to help victims of the recent tornadoes in Alabama. Through our partnership with Victory Hill Church of God and several other area churches, Lancaster UB sent a carload of supplies bound for Alabama.

We have a unique partnership in Lancaster among several of our evangelical churches. I meet weekly for prayer and support with pastors from various denominations and non-denominational churches. We have an unofficial partnership that gives us opportunity to help each other out in the name of Jesus. There is just none of the competition among this group of pastors that unfortunately you see so often in ministerial gatherings.

One of my brothers, Pastor Tim Teague from Victory Hill Church of God, has a disaster response team. Since at least two of the Alabama churches are in his denomination, he felt God was leading them to send help. I called on our people to bring supplies, and with only three days to respond, we had an enormous outpouring of help. We had special prayer for the gift, the givers, and the relief workers, and sent it off to Alabama.”

What’s more…I think God has already returned the blessing. During our worship service, we had what I can only describe as a spontaneous outpouring of the Holy Spirit. Women began to stand and testify and give thanks about their experiences as mothers and grandmothers. Ladies who never had the opportunity to have children got up and praised God for the children that they had a chance to love in the name of Jesus. I never preached. God told me to sit down and shut up, that He’d take the service. And He did. God showed up and spoke a blessing into our lives, and I think it was in direct response to our obedience in sharing with those in need.