2010— Suzanne Gibson Wise retires and Ted W. Goins, Jr. is named president of Lutheran Family Services in the Carolinas.

2009— LFS receives a $750,000 capacity building grant from The Duke Endowment to support the decentralization of the agency’s headquarters. The new structure allows the agency to meet the needs of the communities in which it works quicker and more effectively.

2006— The agency’s budget surpasses $27 million. LFS’ 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1980— The NC Synod recommends that NC operations be withdrawn from Lutheran Children’s Home.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.

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 Carolina Lutherans joined with three other synods to establish the Lutheran Orphanage of the South in Salem, Virginia. The effort followed the wave of faith-based efforts to reach out to widows and orphans of the U. S. Civil War.