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story by bailey hemphill • photo by bill sitzmann
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From left: Lutheran Family Services’ President and CEO Ruth Henrichs, Family Support Liaison Nellie Beyan, and LFS Forever Families Guild President Nancy K. Johnson
Lutheran Family Services
A Community Born to Win
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UTHERAN FAMILY SERVICES PRESIDENT and CEO Ruth
Henrichs remembers meeting a young man a year ago who had a tattoo on his lower arm that read “Born to Lose.” When she asked him about it, he told her that life had always been against him—that he had been “born to lose.” That was, of course, until he came to LFS, he said. “There are lots of people who come to LFS on a daily basis who have this sort of invisible tattoo on their hearts that says >
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