ELCA News Blog
August 13, 2009  

Lutheran Services in America's Jill Schumann named in The NonProfit Times

by Melissa Ramirez Cooper, ELCA News Service

Jill A. Schumann, president and CEO of Lutheran Services in America (LSA), Baltimore, has been named in The NonProfit Times' 2009 "Power and Influence Top 50."  Schumann is one of few leaders included in the list for seven consecutive years, according to a LSA news release.

"Lutheran health and human service organizations in the United States have been compelled and sustained by their call to love and serve our neighbors," said Schumann.  "In preparation for LSA's 10th anniversary, we asked our members how LSA should live that out in the next decade.  It is our members who inspire me and the whole system to shape the future with enthusiasm, savvy and resolve to create communities that are generous, inclusive and just," she said.

There are 300 Lutheran health and human service organizations that participate in LSA, serving more than 6 million people annually in the United States and Caribbean.  The aggregated budgets of these organizations total over $10 billion.  LSA is an alliance of the Evangelical Lutheran Church in America, the Lutheran Church-Missouri Synod and their 300 social ministry organizations.