In midSeptember. LIRS cosponsored a major conference In Washington. DC on ministry to and with African and Haitian refugees. Several ELCA churchwide units were Intimately Involved In this one. especially the Commission on Multicultural Ministries. LIRS Is also well known for foster care minIstry. helping refugee young people who come to the United States without their parents and who need support until they reach adulthood. Only LIRS Is able to function as a Protestant agency with such services through Lutheran Social Service agencies matching the other functioning agency. the Roman Catholic effort through Catholic Charities In Its dioceses. One Protestant agency.
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