With Easter joy, our work as the Lord’s church marches on from here toward heaven. Christ is risen and has defeated sin and the devil, and death — the last enemy. Salvation is won, Christ’s victory is ours. Though, in a strange contradiction, tears in this world shall remain until the end. There will be seasons that will make it appear that there is no end to struggles in this life. There is help where there is hope.

The Road

Martin Luther understood this mash up of ‘already and not yet’ quite well. He once said:

“This life therefore is not righteousness, but growth in righteousness, not health, but healing, not being but becoming, not rest but exercise. We are not yet what we shall be, but we are growing toward it, the process is not yet finished, but it is going on, this is not the end, but it is the road. All does not yet gleam in glory, but all is being purified.”

This life of joys, fears and tears is indeed the road, as Luther calls it. And this is the road that Lutheran Family Service walks with orphans, expectant mothers, people struggling with mental health, breaking relationships, and the sorrows that death still inflicts on those left to grieve. We come with healing not only from our professional services, but more so with the healing that Jesus brings and his already victory for sinners and sufferers. Our comfort is simple. There is healing where there is hope in Jesus!

Answering The Call

For 114 years your LFS has marched on from Easter celebrations back along the road that runs through the valley of the shadow of death that still affects us all. And thanks be to God, that he has given us wonderful partners, such as you, who are anxious to equip us with everything we need to answer the call to bring healing through our service to those in need as we walk toward the Last Day and Jesus’ glorious return.

Your gifts, perhaps offered for many years or perhaps for the first time, are always answered prayers as we grow into this work in partnership with the Church. There is much to do from the empty tomb for your LFS and all of it with Easter joy!

Christ is risen! Alleluia!

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• Babies find loving, Christian homes
• Keep marriages, families, and individuals healthy and well
• Women facing surprise pregnancy choose life for their unborn child
• Support LCMS Church Workers and their families
• And so much more!