BARBARA BELOW is Director of Social Ministry Organizations for the Department of World Relief and Human Care of the Lutheran Church--Missouri Synod. In this position Below serves as a resource to and support for 123 LCMS Recognized Service Organizations who offer human care services such as adoption, foster care, assistance for people with disabilities, disaster response, senior care, mental health counseling, emergency services, and shelter, and immigration or refugee resettlement. She is the Synod's liaison to Lutheran Services in America (LSA), the inter-Lutheran alliance of nearly 300 Luth...