November/December 2013

Lutheran Family & Children’s Services

401 West Blvd. North

Columbia, MO 65203

573-815-9955 www.lfcsmo.org

NOVEMBER, 2013 NATIONAL ADOPTION MONTH

LFCS Staff invites you to an

Adoption Celebration Open House

November, 20 (Wednesday) 4:00-6:00 p.m.

401 West Blvd. North, Columbia, MO 65203

The countdown is right now and the first donation opportunity for CoMoGives! CoMoGives is a printed giving guide, it’s a new website, it’s a giving campaign to benefit 30 terrific, local nonprofits in the Columbia area. The CoMoGives giving window opens at 8:00 AM on December 1 and closes 12/31 at 11:59 PM.

come! Stop by our office, 401 West Blvd. to pick up a copy of CoMoGives. You can also view the website and read more about this wonderful opportunity to

support local non for profit agencies. comogives.com

Thank you to Campus Lutheran church in Columbia for their recent

monetary donation to LFCS.

Thank you LFCS Board Member, Sandy Dirks

and the members of Trinity Lutheran Church in Columbia for participating in a diaper and wipe

drive to help the families we serve.

Many thanks to Rev. Lutheran Herman for inviting LFCS to speak to the

members of his congregation, Clarks Fork Trinity Lutheran Church on

October, 2013. Christine Corcoran and Michele Towns enjoyed a beautiful fall

morning drive to Boonville and appreciated the opportunity to speak

about the mission of LFCS. We were blessed with a monetary donation to

LFCS that day and look forward to the church hosting a baby shower for LFCS

during the holidays for the families we

serve.

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I want to be a foster parent because I love how cute the babies are no matter how big or small. I want to help the baby get a loving family. Every baby is from God and he wants everyone of his children to have a nice family and I know God would want me to do this. I only have two siblings and when we foster a baby it’s like I have another sibling every time and I want to make the

baby comfortable.

Pictured above, Lauren

Campbell, daughter of Ryan and Beth Campbell.

Pictured left Dr. John Meyer

I am a native of central Illinois, graduated from U. Of I. School of Medicine in Chicago, and did my residency at Milwaukee Children's Hospital. I have been in private practice in Columbia, MO. for 37 years, the last 11 in a part time position. For the past several years it has been my distinct pleasure to serve as the primary care pediatrician for the LFCS babies between nursery discharge and placement with adoptive parents. It has been a blessing to work with the wonderful, loving foster mothers in our community and to have had the opportunity to meet several of the grateful adoptive parents. These babies are so special! Just to see the joy they bring to the foster moms and the adoptive parents is such a rewarding experience. I can only say this has been a true " labor of love."

LFCS is blessed with such caring members in our community that

support our

mission.

Lutheran Family & Children’s Services

401 West Blvd. North, Suite B

Columbia, MO 65203 573-815-9955

www.lfcsmo.org

2013-2014 LFCS

Mid-Missouri Board Members

Emily Bange Kaye Clarke Sandy Dirks Lois Fagan

Vicki Hartwig Catherine Lavitt Paul Moessner

Carrie Paden Stacy Peters Nelly Roach

Leigh Spence Jayne Young

LFCS HAS TAX CREDITS FOR 2013!!!

Read this and Save Big!

Last year, funds raised through our tax credit programs helped more than 690 kids develop positive life skills through the CALL and CHOICES Mentoring Programs and 679 women statewide facing crisis pregnancies make life-affirming decisions for their babies through the WINGS program.

Here’s an example of the savings: (tax bracket of 35%)

Donation $1,000

Mo Tax credit deduction $500

Fed Income tax deduction $350

Mo income tax deduction $60

Total cost to donor $90

(That’s 9cents on the dollar)

Give your Tax dollars to LFCS not Uncle Sam!

To make a gift or reserve your tax credits for a 2013, please contact Jaime Craig at 800.474.1967 or

jaimec@lfcs.org.

Lutheran Family & Children’s Services

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