Lutheran Social Services celebrates 90 years


Published/Last Modified on Tuesday, November 17, 2009 7:13 AM CST

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.

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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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    Darcy wrote on Nov 17, 2009 4:43 PM:

    " A great big Thank You to LSS. I was adopted 41 years ago to a great family, and in the past 6 years I have located my biological mother and father, we are having a great time getting to know each other. Your services are fabulous !!! "


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