Harold’s Renewal
When Harold left prison, his first stop was at Lutheran Family Services (LFS) to attend his first appointment back in the RTA Adult Incest Offender Treatment Program. He didn’t even have a place to live...
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A Family Man
From the June 18, 2006 Council Bluffs Daily NonPareil. Reprinted with permission. By Kim Bousquet, Daily Nonpareil Staff Writer. Photo by Ben DeVries, Daily Nonpareil Staff Photographer. For Dennis Oden, watching the birth of his...
READ MOREDoing What’s Best for Jacqueline
Names have been changed to protect the confidentiality of those involved Jordan and Kent called LFS when Jordan was six months pregnant. The couple lived together with their three children. Both were working full time...
READ MOREThe Years Go By So Fast
Almost 23 years ago, this wonderful young man came into our lives at the age of 5 days, with the help of Lutheran Family Services. Thank you! He was a great kid (most of the...
READ MORE“This is the greatest place I have ever lived!”
“Mike” came to LFS last September when he was placed in a foster home after spending a month in an emergency youth shelter. Mike, who grew up in an adoptive home, did not experience many...
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Josie stood in the hallway in disbelief. She immediately felt a knot in her stomach as she fixed her eyes upon the two blue lines staring back at her from her pregnancy test. As a...
READ MORECarol & Michelle’s Reunion
Dear Lutheran Family Services of Nebraska: In 1984, at the age of 17, I became pregnant. Considering adoption for my baby, a friend’s mother (who had placed a baby through Lutheran Social Service of Kansas/Oklahoma...
READ MOREThe Option of Adoption
By Debbie Grayson, Bellevue Leader Staff Writer. Photo by Bob Bailie, Bellevue Leader Staff Photographer. Reprinted with permission of the Bellevue Leader (NE) Newspaper. Usually, l6-year-old girls are faced with decisions as to which jeans...
READ MORELutheran Family Services of Nebraska responds to Governor Ricketts’ request to decline resettlement of Syrian refugees
OMAHA, Neb. (November 16, 2015) – On November 16, 2015, Lutheran Family Services of Nebraska, Inc. (LFS) received a letter from Governor Pete Ricketts advising that his administration “opposes efforts to resettle Syrian refugees in...
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