Lutheran Family Service News
Posted on October 18, 2023
by Cathy VandeBraak, MA
Meet Cathy VandeBraak, an adoption and pregnancy case worker serving families within three hours of Sioux Falls, South Dakota. We recently sat down to talk about her role with Lutheran Family Service, how mission and ministry are often carried out in the mundane parts of life, and the basics of what adoptive families and birth moms can expect when connected with LFS.
Parenting
Posted on December 6, 2019
The world focuses on exterior and surface beauty. The perfect hairstyle, outfit, skin, and particular body type. We see it on social media, the internet, and even walking through the halls of school. This isn’t true beauty.
Parenting
Posted on February 22, 2018
It’s hard to be a parent. Kids don’t come with rule books or training manuals. With technology and culture advancing quickly, it makes it even harder to not feel as if kids are growing up too fast. How do we sort through all the unsolicited “support” we get from family, community, and even strangers who […]
Parenting
Posted on February 4, 2017
by Manda Boothby, LMHC
The difficulty of letting go Going off to college may be one of the most significant events in a person’s life as they transition from a child to an adult. They have the opportunity for their first taste of freedom and the power to make their own decisions. At least, that is the intended purpose […]
Godly Living
Posted on October 18, 2016
by Wanda Pritzel
It is interesting to listen to a person respond to the invitation to “describe God”. Try it! When you close your eyes and imagine standing before Him, what does He look like? Is your image of God one who looms tall above you or sits in an extra large throne chair looking down at you […]
