Together

New agency to provide relief and humanitarian aid

After years of discussion, two WELS agencies have now been combined into a single new entity. Representatives of the WELS Committee on Relief and the WELS Humanitarian Aid Committee met last week to create a new, single agency called "WELS Care"—WELS Christian Aid and RElief.


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