2006— The agency’s budget surpasses $27
million. LFS’s service array for children, adults, families and communities
reaches out to more than 14,000 vulnerable people annually.
2001— Bill Brittain retires and Suzanne Gibson
Wise becomes the second president of Lutheran Family Services in the Carolinas.
1991—NC and SC Synods approve creation of Lutheran Family Services in the
Carolinas.
1987— LFSNC is accredited by the Council on
Accreditation. The agency’s service array now includes family counseling,
children’s residential and foster care and refugee and immigration services.
1980— The NC Synod recommends that NC operations be withdrawn from
Lutheran Children’s Home. Lutheran Family Services in North Carolina is chartered
on September 15.
1976— The board of Lutheran Children’
s Home invests $35,000 to establish a NC Division. Bill D. Brittain is named director
and sets up office in the basement of Holy Trinity Lutheran Church in Raleigh, NC.
1974— While continuing support of the Lutheran Children’s Home,
an NC Synod study commission recommends pursuing an affiliated children’s
services program in NC.
1972— The growth of services for families and
children leads to the decline of the orphanage model. The SC Synod withdraws support
from the Children’s Home, but the Lutheran Social Ministry Agency of Greater
Columbia, SC. launches a children’s ministry two years.
1930s— The Salem orphanage expands its campus
and assumes the name Lutheran Children’s Home of the South. During the Great
Depression, 144 children reside there.
1920s— South Carolina Lutherans formed the Committee
on Inner Missions to study the needs of vulnerable people and the church’s
obligation to them. The committee evolved into Lutheran Social Services of Central
South Carolina.
1888— North and South Carolinas Lutherans joined
with three other synods to establish the Lutheran Orphanage of the South in Salem,
Virginia. The effort followed of the wave of faith-based efforts to reach out to
widows and orphans of the U. S. Civil War.
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