Pastor Sandy Damhof is the Protestant Campus Pastor at SUNY Albany with Jessica Vermilyea, State Director, LDR Lutheran Social Services Disaster Response, Louisiana Help us Feed the Roots of Leadership Today

October is Feed the Roots of Leadership month. We are confident that most every congregation should be able to find a way to participate that matches their congregation's commitment to feeding the roots of leadership for the future of our synod's ministries and the church.

Pastor Sandy Damhof is the Protestant Campus Pastor at SUNY Albany. That ministry is a supported by the ELCA and several ecumenical partners. For the last six years Sandy has been taking groups of students to New Orleans to help with disaster relief and rebuilding efforts following Katrina. When floods came to Upstate New York she organized a group to work in Schoharie, one of the areas hardest hit. But that wasn't enough, so she invited SUNY Albany students to join in the effort and on Oct. 8 she brought 78 students to Schoharie to help with the cleanup. Campus ministry does more than Feed the Roots of Leadership for the future, it's making a difference now.