BISMARCK, N.D. (AP) — Lutheran Social Services of North Dakota is getting close to being a century old.
The agency is celebrating 90 years with an open house at the Bismarck Program Center.
It’s grown from an adoption program run out of a Fargo woman’s living room to an agency that has 19 programs providing services to residents across the state.
The original agency was called Lutheran Children’s Home Finding Society, and was incorporated on Feb. 24, 1919. The first services offered by LSS included housing for working girls and unmarried mothers, adoption and oversight of foster homes. Services today range from adoption to disaster response.
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