New Detroit MI LDS Family Services Web Site

The Detroit Michigan Agency of LDS Family Services has launched a new Web site to help people in the area they serve—in Michigan, western Pennsylvania, and parts of New York, West Virginia and Ohio—better connect with the services they offer.

Features of the site include profiles of the professional staff, information on counseling and addiction recovery and support groups of various kinds, and links to related Church Web sites.  As time goes on we can expect the site to add information and become increasingly useful.

Families Supporting Adoption Area Conference

My daughter Amy and I attended the North America Northeast Area conference of Families Supporting Adoption.  We loved it.  We attended sessions on advocating for adoption, open communication between birth mothers and adopting couples, and financing adoption.  (The Church subsidizes adoptions done through LDS Family Services.)

One of the highlights of the conference was a panel of birth mothers, who told their unique stories.  Every one of the four women on the panel bore testimony of how God had supported them in making the difficult decision of placing their child for adoption and guided them to the couple that was right for their child.  They knew God had been involved, and they had no regrets for the decision they had made—pretty heroic.

We came home thinking that we would benefit greatly from establishing a sub-chapter of Families Supporting Adoption in Pittsburgh.