Chapelwood awards grant to Krause Children's Center
May 30, 2007

KATY, Texas- Chapelwood United Methodist Church awarded a $5,000 grant to pay for medical needs and after-school activities for residents of the Krause Children's Center, a residential treatment center for boys and girls from ages 11 to 17 with emotional and behavioral problems.

The grant is the second awarded to the Krause Children's Center from Chapelwood. "The site visitors gave Krause high marks for operational efficiency, good financial stewardship, and for spending its money on the children and services for the children," says Noel Denison, pastor of serving ministries at Chapelwood. "We realized that the services Krause provides are unique and there are no other centers like Krause in the area."

"Krause Children's Center needs personal items, such as school supplies, hygiene items, and luggage, etc., so that when a boy or girl arrives at the center, normally with just the clothes on their backs and a trash sack of their few belongings, they can get some personal items that will make the child feel more at home," said Renate Doss, CEO/ director at Krause RTC.

The Krause Children's Center, one of three treatment centers operated by Lutheran Social Services, opened in 1995 to care for boys and girls ages 11 to 17 with emotional and behavioral problems, most stemming from physical, sexual and emotional abuse and neglect. Today, more than 160 boys and girls are annually served at the Krause Children's Center thanks to grants like the one from Chapelwood UMC.

For more information from Krause Children's Center, please visit www.KrauseChildrensCenter.org. For volunteer opportunities, please contact Schottsie Hill at (281) 392-7505 or e-mail her at shill@lsss.org.

LSS is the social service arm of The Lutheran Church - Missouri Synod and the Evangelical Lutheran Church in America. LSS affiliated ministries serve more than 35,000 children, elderly and poor in Texas, Louisiana, Oklahoma and Mississippi regardless of religious beliefs, ethnicity, gender or age. Its ministries include children's residential treatment centers, therapeutic foster care, adoption, disaster response, emergency assistance, senior health care, retirement communities and adult day care.

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