Lutheran Family Service, Fort Dodge IA

Lutheran Family Services offers great resources for both churches and individuals:
Marriage counseling.mental health counseling, adoption support, Christian counselors, unplanned pregnancy support plus more. The staff is very helpful!

The counselors and other staff are extremely helpful. They maintain discretion and are a great resource for any time of your life-birth of a child, death of family member, adoption services, and more. I highly recommend them.

Lutheran Family Service embodies the true expression of the gospel of Christ in both Word and Deed. The Christian counseling is Christian. The work that is done with adoption is fulfilling the admonition to "care for the widows and orphans. " I have made several referrals to LFS over the years and the services they provided brought healing and comfort to the recipients. Lutheran Family Service staff and their Board seek to meet the current needs of those within and without the church. Thanks be to God for HIs work through LFS!

This service organization of the Lutheran Church-Missouri provided our family with excellent adoption services a number of years ago. They continue to offer these same compassionate, caring services to a growing number of birth mothers and adoptive parents in Iowa and surrounding states.

LFS was a great resource for me as a pastor in Iowa. From their congregational services facet to help me understand mental health as it relates to the life of the church, to being an excellent mental health referral for those in my congregation who could benefit from licensed mental health counselling in addition to my pastoral care, and even seeing a counselor using the mental health benefit of my Employee Assistance Program for preventative screening after I had provided pastoral care for a family involved in a highly-publicized murder, I have witnessed excellence at every encounter. Lutheran Family Service provides outstanding care from competent professional, whether for Lutherans, other Christians, or anyone in need of adoption, pregnancy support, and individual or marriage counselling.

Lutheran family Service has had a profound impact on both my family and my ministry. Through Lutheran Family Service (LFS), we were able to adopt two wonderful daughters who are the joy of our life. I have also benefited from being able to refer members to LFS counselors over the years, who have provided them with professional Christian counsel in time of need, covering a variety of life circumstances. They continue to provide support and educational opportunities for congregations and communities to help address contemporary family concerns. What a blessing LFS is to our families, churches and communities.