jimig, Author at Lutheran Family Services

“I Just Want Someone to Love Me”

I’ve worked at Lutheran Family Services for well over three years now, and I can pinpoint my toughest day at work. It was the day I was interviewing foster children for a fundraising video. At...

Veterans Day Open House & Ribbon Cutting, North Platte

October 28, 2013 (North Platte, Nebraska) — The public is invited to a Veterans Day Open House and Ribbon-Cutting at the North Platte office of Lutheran Family Services of Nebraska (LFS). The event commemorates the addition of...

Fundraiser Supports Pottawattamie County’s Youngest Residents

(Council Bluffs, IA) – Children living in Pottawattamie County – birth to age five — will be the beneficiaries of the upcoming “Wicker & Wine Basket Auction.” Todd and Sarah Archer are the honorary chairs...

Business News Release

October 15, 2013 (Omaha, Nebraska) – Lutheran Family Services of Nebraska (LFS) has promoted Christy Fiala to Regional Services Director for Children Services. Her office will remain in Fremont’s Rupert Dunklau Center for Healthy Families,...

ADOPTION  COMPETENCE  MEDIA  RELEASE  –  9/13/2013 

Lutheran Family Services and the Center for Adoption Support and Education is offering a Training for Adoption Competence course for licensed mental health professionals. The course provides them with the clinical skills they need to...

Lutheran Family Services of Nebraska To Be Recognized as an Angel in Adoption™ at National Event in Washington, D.C.

Omaha, NE – September 12, 2013 – The Congressional Coalition on Adoption Institute (CCAI) will honor Lutheran Family Services of Nebraska as an Angel in Adoption™ at an awards ceremony on October 8 and gala on October...

Annual Great Pumpkin Tree & Free Family Festival

Each pumpkin represents a Nebraska child waiting for adoption September 27, 2013 (Omaha) — For the fifth year a great pumpkin tree will “rise” over the Village Pointe Center Court! This month-long community event raises...

Grades, and Then Some…

It took me a really long time to get organized. Not this morning or this week—I mean since high school. I was one of those irritating kids who pretty much winged it through my early...

The Big Shifts

Moving up a grade is one thing. Moving up to the next tier is entirely another. The next tier, of course, is the shift between elementary school and middle school. Then, the jump from middle...

Fathers and Daughters

Men hold incredible power over the future their daughters will experience. Sometimes, I have to wonder how many fathers realize that. And how many grieve for realizing it too late? I’m not just talking about...