A brief history of our agency is described here.

The agency was founded in 1922 by the Lutheran Church in Philadelphia in order to provide child placement services on the church's behalf. It was part of the local church unit, the "Synod," until 1965, when it incorporated as the Lutheran Children's Bureau.

The name was changed in 1970 to Lutheran Children and Family Service. Until 1975, LCFS was to serve the Synod covering all of Eastern Pennsylvania, but assets were divided in that year when the Synod was split in two. Now we are primarily related to the local, Southeastern Pennsylvania Synod of the Evangelical Lutheran Church in America.

View a PowerPoint® slideshow of some historical agency highlights.