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Lutheran Services in America is the national office of a network of 300 Lutheran health and human services organizations across the United States.Headquartered in Washington, DC, Lutheran Services in America amplifies the voice of its $23 billion network to aid community leaders and advance policies and practices that improve the lives of people and communities.
The Lutheran Volunteer Corps (LVC) is a full-time, volunteer service and leadership program.It was founded in 1979 by Luther Place Memorial Church in Washington, DC.Each year, LVC places approximately 100 volunteers in urban areas across the United States to work for social justice with various nonprofit organizations.
Global Refuge, formerly known as Lutheran Immigration and Refugee Service, [2] is a non-profit organization that supports refugees and migrants entering the United States. It is one of nine refugee resettlement agencies working with the Office of Refugee Resettlement [3] and one of two that serves unaccompanied refugee minors. [4]
AbleLight, formerly known as Bethesda Lutheran Communities, is a non-profit human service organization serving people with intellectual and developmental disabilities through faith-based programs. Bethesda, a 501(c)3 non-profit, provides supports and services for more than 2,000 people with intellectual and developmental disabilities and their ...
By 1860, its property was evaluated at $10,000, and one additional Lutheran church was built in the District of Columbia. [23] In 1870, U.S. Census data recorded that ten Lutheran churches had been established in D.C., but social statistics reports from the same year record only nine, with their total property valuation at $218,000.
Lutheran World Relief (LWR) is an international non-governmental organization that focuses on sustainable development projects and disaster relief and recovery. The organization was founded in 1945 to collect and send aid to people living in post- World War II Europe. [ 2 ]
St. Paul's Lutheran Church is a decorated Gothic Revival-style Lutheran church in northwest Washington, D.C. Currently located off of Connecticut Avenue NW, between Ellicott and Everett Streets, it was originally founded in 1843 as the first English-speaking Lutheran church in the District.
Luther Place Memorial Church is a congregation belonging to the Evangelical Lutheran Church in America. [2] The neo-Gothic church building in Thomas Circle in Washington, D.C., was designed by architects Judson York, J. C. Harkness, and Henry Davis and constructed in 1873 as a memorial to peace and reconciliation following the American Civil War.