LSS President Elected to LSA for Second Term
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Executives elected to terms on LSA Board
Executives were elected to the national Board of Lutheran Services in America, the Baltimore-based alliance of two Lutheran denominations and their 300 social ministry organizations, during its annual meeting April 30 in Washington, DC.
Board members were elected for three-year terms beginning July 1, 2009:
Barbara Dröher Kline is President and CEO of Lutheran Social Services of Northern California. She begins her second term on the LSA Board. Previously Dröher Kline worked at: Kairos Home for runaway girls in East Oakland; Alameda County Social Services; and Lutheran Social Services of Northern California, where she started the Turning Point Women’s Center in San Jose, CA. She is the board chair for Miracles of Faith, an ELCA mission-start in Oakland, California.
Lutheran Services in America creates opportunities with people in thousands of communities throughout the United States and the Caribbean as an alliance of the Evangelical Lutheran Church in America, The Lutheran Church – Missouri Synod, and their nearly 300 health and human service organizations. Working neighbor to neighbor through services in health care, aging and disability supports, community development, housing, and child and family strengthening, these organizations together touch the lives of one in 50 Americans each year.