Your Gift’s Impact

You may direct your gift in numerous ways, supporting ...

• A variety of services for children and youth, including adoption, foster care, family preservation, and programs and counseling for youth at risk.
• The Diakon Lutheran Fund, a separate endowment-type organization whose roots date to 1868—and whose sole purpose is to support programs/services of greatest need within the Diakon organization.

Here are illustrations of how your gifts help:

Diakon Adoption & Foster Care

Since 1868, Diakon served the needs of children and youth. Our adoption and foster care program, in many respects, is a direct descendant of the Tressler and Topton children’s homes. Always innovative, the program has been a national model for adoption and foster-care services for children and youth with special needs. Your generous gift to Diakon Adoption & Foster Care can help in the following ways:

• $500 will provide support (counseling, child care etc.) to families who have adopted a child or older youth with special needs.
• $250 will provide pajamas, a toothbrush, a change of clothing, and a duffel bag for one child in an emergency placement.
• $100 will help pay for an after-school or summer program, which can help to bring normalcy to a child's life.
• $50 will provide the materials for a "Life Book," which chronicles through information and photographs of a child’s life.
• Your gift of any size will help Diakon Adoption & Foster Care.
  
  

Please contact us if you have questions about these programs or are interested in other ways you can support or endow ministries that, since 1868, have been making a remarkable difference in the lives of children, families and older adults.