• Women's Care Center - Connecting new moms with resources
• First Northeast Indiana Immigration Network event highlights refugee resettlement programs
• Meet our foundress: Saint Katharina Kasper
• Lutheran Social Services of Indiana's ECHO Program - Helping moms to graduate

The Women’s Care Center just recently moved into its new offices on Lake Avenue, but already staff are seeing more clients. 

The renovated building at 2910 Lake Avenue was ready for business in mid-January and replaced the location on Wayne Street in downtown Fort Wayne. Two other Fort Wayne locations, 921 W. Coliseum Blvd. and 4600 W. Jefferson Blvd., remain open.

“We have more than doubled our space from the Wayne Street location,” says Anne Koehl, longtime director of Women’s Care Centers in Fort Wayne. “It’s been wonderful to have...



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The recent Northeast Indiana Immigration Network inaugural event brought about 100 people to the Allen County Public Library to learn about local refugee resettlement programs. Hosted by the St. Joseph Community Health Foundation, Amani Family Services, Catholic Charities, and International House, the discussion began with a moving personal story from So Min Oo, a Burmese refugee who moved to Fort Wayne in 2007 after living in a refugee camp for just over a decade. 

Oo described living in a peaceful Burmese village until he was 11 years old. It was then that the Burmese military bombed his village, killing thousands of people. Oo and his family escaped and he says...

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Q. What values and works do you find especially important? 

In her own words, Katharina said in 1884

“The path we should tread …is namely to seek our loving God in greater perfection, to serve and love Him more.” 

Her mission and ministry knew no bounds or borders. She reached out wherever possible to tend to the sick, the suffering, the needy, and the children.



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