Lutheran Social Services of Northeast Florida invites you to join us in our mission: “Motivated and guided by the compassion of Christ, we serve and care for people in need.”
You are vital to us. What you do for us this year will help us meet the needs of
thousands of people in our community, regardless of faith. We help the community
in the following ways:
• SECOND HARVEST FOOD BANK: Distribute recovered food through our food
network to 400 member agencies in 17 Northeast Florida counties, which in turn
serve thousands of hungry people, mostly the working poor; give food to
low-income children through the Kids Cafe after-school program and their
families through the Weekend Meals program; distribute food and water to
disaster victims; and help staff the State’s Emergency Operations Center (EOC).
• REFUGEE & IMMIGRATION SERVICES: Resettle refugees sent to us from the
State Department because their lives were at risk in their homelands due to
religious or political persecution, by finding them places to live, helping them
adapt to their new culture, enrolling their children in school, and helping them
train for and find jobs.
• ACE PROGRAM: Provide HIV/AIDS prevention education to the community and
help people who are HIV-positive or living with AIDS by helping them find the
services they need to stay healthy as long as possible.
• REPRESENTATIVE PAYEE PROGRAM: Manage finances for 1,000 people who
suffer from chronic mental illness and/or substance abuse or who are too young
or too old to make sound spending decisions to ensure that their basic living
needs are met.
• HURRICANE DISASTER RELIEF: Following Hurricane Katrina, LSS volunteered
to work with the City of Jacksonville and United Way of Northeast Florida as one
of five lead agencies to assist in hurricane disaster relief in the areas of
food/clothing and resettlement services until United Way hurricane-designated
funding was depleted at the end of 2005. Since then, LSS continues to provide
direct aid to evacuees from funding and donations of clothing, furniture, and
household goods provided by local businesses and faith organizations and
national Lutheran organizations.
Your support helps us add new programs to help more people, in addition to
continuing the much-needed services we already provide. We are researching our
ability to
start an INTERNATIONAL ADOPTION PROGRAM. We hope to join other Lutheran
agencies offering adoption through the Lutheran Adoption Network (LAN), a
national collaboration of Lutheran adoption agencies with the combined
experience of centuries. LAN agencies offer adoption services to all people
regardless of faith. Your contribution to LSS will provide us much-needed
start-up funds for this program. We are also continuing to study how we can most
effectively help our Lutheran congregations provide meaningful programs and
services for seniors. Working with Church Resources’ SENIOR MINISTRY inventory
program, congregations will be developing profiles of their seniors’ needs and
interests. Your support will enable us to expand existing services and add
programs as necessary to help congregations minister to their seniors —
benefiting seniors in the broader Northeast Florida community as well!
Lutheran Social Services of Northeast Florida •
Jacksonville, FL 32207 •
904.448.5995/fax 904.448.6044
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