LSS serves people of all faiths and backgrounds throughout Wisconsin, Upper Michigan and the world. The staff of over 2,500 offers services at over 250 sites that can be categorized into the following areas:

• Addictions & Corrections. Alcohol and Other Drug Abuse (AODA) assessments, day treatment services, outpatient counseling, education, and support groups for people dealing with alcohol and drug abuse issues, as well as gambling addictions. In addition, LSS has outpatient and day treatment services involving youth and their families. In partnership with the Division of Community Corrections, Department of Health and Family Services, and Federal Bureau of Prisons, LSS provides an array of services including counseling, transitional living, case management, vocational training, primary and extended treatment for addictions and monitoring services for juveniles and adults.

  

• Adoption. LSS offers domestic, international, and special needs adoption as well as birth parent counseling. 

  

• Counseling. Encompasses mental health and substance abuse services for children and adults. Trained professionals help our clients build resilience, facilitate recovery, and grow so they can live more fully in the community. Services are provided to individuals throughout the life span, partnering with organizations to meet the needs of the uninsured or underinsured, or people with lower incomes.

  

• Children, Youth and Family Services. Family preservation, family outreach, delinquency intervention and prevention, early intervention for children with developmental delays or disabilities, services for runaway or homeless youth and their families, treatment foster care, adult correction services, refugee and immigrant services, educational programs, transitional housing, and treatment centers.

  

• Housing Services. In cooperation with the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development, LSS manages multiple subsidized housing units for older adults and people with developmental disabilities or serious and persistent mental illness. Rent for eligible residents is 30 percent of their adjusted gross income.

  

• Older Adult Services. LSS offers adult day services, low-income housing and assisted living; assessment and case management; supportive home care; and information and referral.

  

• Persons with Disabilities. Provides services to support people to be as independent in the community as possible. Services include homes for person with disabilities or mental health concerns and community support within people's own homes.  LSS also provides day services, representative payee, case management, and guardianship.  

  

• Prison Ministries. Prison Ministries focuses on the relationships between families and incarcerated individuals to help connect them in difficult situations.  LSS believes that maintaining the connection with families enables incarcerated individuals to have a successful return to a responsible and accountable environment, where families are supportive and a new future can be realized.  LSS sees a tremendous need to begin working with individuals who are incarcerated long before the re-entry time is realized.  Prison Ministries is the articulation of restorative justice to heal victims, families, communities and offenders.  This Line of Service is currently under development.

  

• Urban Ministries. Services dedicated to alleviating the conditions associated with poverty, homelessness and disaster by providing individuals with their most basic needs of shelter, food, clothing and hope, as well as the resources to become self-sufficient.

The Kettle Moraine Food Pantry  served it's first clients in 1983.  Its mission is to provide supplemental food to those in the Kettle Moraine school district who are in need.  The current site, inside All Saints Lutheran Church in Wales, has been occupied since the fall of 2001.

The Kettle Moraine Food Pantry is open on Tuesdays, Thursdays and Saturdays from 10 - 11 am.  For more information visit the Client Services and Donations pages or call 262-968-6466. The address is 705 W. Tomlin Road, Wales, Wisconsin 53183

Lutheran Homes of Oconomowoc is much more than senior housing. 

LHO includes Shorehaven Health and Rehabilitation Center, Shorehaven Tower and Lake Terrace Apartments. It is also exploring Lake Shore Place, brand new apartments for active adult living on Lac La Belle.

You can serve in so many ways, including the following:

• 1-1 visitor or household volunteer—this opportunity includes being a "good listener" and can be fit into your busy schedule
• Program escorts in the Great Room
• Activity Assistants—assist with ceramics, special dinners or shopping
• Chapel escorts
• Mail Delivery
• Bingo Players
• Mobile meal drivers
• Special event planners as in Fall Fest, Tree of Love, Plant Sales and Market Day
• Gift and Re-Sale Shop volunteers

Below are three opportunities in which you can help support the Lutheran Homes of Oconomowoc mission.

• Gifts to the Lutheran Homes of Oconomowoc Charitable Foundation will serve seniors for years to come, as only the interest is used to support those who have outlived their resources. 
• Gifts to Current Operations benefit immediately people living at Shorehaven Health & Rehabilitation Center and Shorehaven Tower by supporting the cost of the daily operation of these facilities. 
• A gift to the Capital Campaign will reduce the cost of the new Shorehaven Health & Rehabilitation Center building which carries a debt of $12,000,000. 

Lutherdale Ministries located just north of Elkhorn, WI on beautiful spring fed Lauderdale Lakes provides a ministry of hospitality twelve months of the year. Lutherdale is a faith community, dedicated to building lives in Christ, through the wonder of God's creation, and the study of God's word.  Lutherdale’s unique location and facilities provide groups the opportunity to plan your own retreat, conference, or camp.

The Greater Milwaukee Synod El Salvador Committee works with the Sister Parish office of the Salvadoran Lutheran Church, encouraging the growth of relationships between congregations and individuals in Milwaukee and El Salvador.  The committee offers assistance with congregational visits in El Salvador and Salvadoran visits in the United States, and typically coordinates one or more synod delegation visits to El Salvador each year.  The committee hosts educational events, provides resources and guest speakers to congregations, manages the allocation of donated funds, promotes development initiatives of the Salvadoran Lutheran Church and Comunidad Rutilio Grande, and encourages advocacy.  In every aspect, the committee promotes the use of the accompaniment model as Milwaukeeans and  Salvadorans work together on issues of importance to us as people of faith and advocacy.

"Hand to Hand" - a video presentation from Synod Assembly 2008 which celebrates 20 years of partnership between the Greater Milwaukee Synod and the Salvadoran Lutheran Church:

LSS serves people of all faiths and backgrounds throughout Wisconsin, Upper Michigan and the world. The staff of over 2,500 offers services at over 250 sites that can be categorized into the following areas:

• Addictions & Corrections. Alcohol and Other Drug Abuse (AODA) assessments, day treatment services, outpatient counseling, education, and support groups for people dealing with alcohol and drug abuse issues, as well as gambling addictions. In addition, LSS has outpatient and day treatment services involving youth and their families. In partnership with the Division of Community Corrections, Department of Health and Family Services, and Federal Bureau of Prisons, LSS provides an array of services including counseling, transitional living, case management, vocational training, primary and extended treatment for addictions and monitoring services for juveniles and adults.

  

• Adoption. LSS offers domestic, international, and special needs adoption as well as birth parent counseling. 

  

• Counseling. Encompasses mental health and substance abuse services for children and adults. Trained professionals help our clients build resilience, facilitate recovery, and grow so they can live more fully in the community. Services are provided to individuals throughout the life span, partnering with organizations to meet the needs of the uninsured or underinsured, or people with lower incomes.

  

• Children, Youth and Family Services. Family preservation, family outreach, delinquency intervention and prevention, early intervention for children with developmental delays or disabilities, services for runaway or homeless youth and their families, treatment foster care, adult correction services, refugee and immigrant services, educational programs, transitional housing, and treatment centers.

  

• Housing Services. In cooperation with the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development, LSS manages multiple subsidized housing units for older adults and people with developmental disabilities or serious and persistent mental illness. Rent for eligible residents is 30 percent of their adjusted gross income.

  

• Older Adult Services. LSS offers adult day services, low-income housing and assisted living; assessment and case management; supportive home care; and information and referral.

  

• Persons with Disabilities. Provides services to support people to be as independent in the community as possible. Services include homes for person with disabilities or mental health concerns and community support within people's own homes.  LSS also provides day services, representative payee, case management, and guardianship.  

  

• Prison Ministries. Prison Ministries focuses on the relationships between families and incarcerated individuals to help connect them in difficult situations.  LSS believes that maintaining the connection with families enables incarcerated individuals to have a successful return to a responsible and accountable environment, where families are supportive and a new future can be realized.  LSS sees a tremendous need to begin working with individuals who are incarcerated long before the re-entry time is realized.  Prison Ministries is the articulation of restorative justice to heal victims, families, communities and offenders.  This Line of Service is currently under development.

  

• Urban Ministries. Services dedicated to alleviating the conditions associated with poverty, homelessness and disaster by providing individuals with their most basic needs of shelter, food, clothing and hope, as well as the resources to become self-sufficient.

The Kettle Moraine Food Pantry  served it's first clients in 1983.  Its mission is to provide supplemental food to those in the Kettle Moraine school district who are in need.  The current site, inside All Saints Lutheran Church in Wales, has been occupied since the fall of 2001.

The Kettle Moraine Food Pantry is open on Tuesdays, Thursdays and Saturdays from 10 - 11 am.  For more information visit the Client Services and Donations pages or call 262-968-6466. The address is 705 W. Tomlin Road, Wales, Wisconsin 53183

Lutheran Homes of Oconomowoc is much more than senior housing. 

LHO includes Shorehaven Health and Rehabilitation Center, Shorehaven Tower and Lake Terrace Apartments. It is also exploring Lake Shore Place, brand new apartments for active adult living on Lac La Belle.

You can serve in so many ways, including the following:

• 1-1 visitor or household volunteer—this opportunity includes being a "good listener" and can be fit into your busy schedule
• Program escorts in the Great Room
• Activity Assistants—assist with ceramics, special dinners or shopping
• Chapel escorts
• Mail Delivery
• Bingo Players
• Mobile meal drivers
• Special event planners as in Fall Fest, Tree of Love, Plant Sales and Market Day
• Gift and Re-Sale Shop volunteers

Below are three opportunities in which you can help support the Lutheran Homes of Oconomowoc mission.

• Gifts to the Lutheran Homes of Oconomowoc Charitable Foundation will serve seniors for years to come, as only the interest is used to support those who have outlived their resources. 
• Gifts to Current Operations benefit immediately people living at Shorehaven Health & Rehabilitation Center and Shorehaven Tower by supporting the cost of the daily operation of these facilities. 
• A gift to the Capital Campaign will reduce the cost of the new Shorehaven Health & Rehabilitation Center building which carries a debt of $12,000,000. 

Lutherdale Ministries located just north of Elkhorn, WI on beautiful spring fed Lauderdale Lakes provides a ministry of hospitality twelve months of the year. Lutherdale is a faith community, dedicated to building lives in Christ, through the wonder of God's creation, and the study of God's word.  Lutherdale’s unique location and facilities provide groups the opportunity to plan your own retreat, conference, or camp.

The Greater Milwaukee Synod El Salvador Committee works with the Sister Parish office of the Salvadoran Lutheran Church, encouraging the growth of relationships between congregations and individuals in Milwaukee and El Salvador.  The committee offers assistance with congregational visits in El Salvador and Salvadoran visits in the United States, and typically coordinates one or more synod delegation visits to El Salvador each year.  The committee hosts educational events, provides resources and guest speakers to congregations, manages the allocation of donated funds, promotes development initiatives of the Salvadoran Lutheran Church and Comunidad Rutilio Grande, and encourages advocacy.  In every aspect, the committee promotes the use of the accompaniment model as Milwaukeeans and  Salvadorans work together on issues of importance to us as people of faith and advocacy.

"Hand to Hand" - a video presentation from Synod Assembly 2008 which celebrates 20 years of partnership between the Greater Milwaukee Synod and the Salvadoran Lutheran Church: