{"id":2507,"date":"2022-07-07T15:10:16","date_gmt":"2022-07-07T15:10:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.lutheranmetro.org\/?page_id=2507"},"modified":"2022-07-21T10:41:07","modified_gmt":"2022-07-21T14:41:07","slug":"history","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.lutheranmetro.org\/who-we-are\/history\/","title":{"rendered":"History"},"content":{"rendered":"\t\t<div data-elementor-type=\"wp-page\" data-elementor-id=\"2507\" class=\"elementor elementor-2507\" data-elementor-post-type=\"page\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<section class=\"has_eae_slider elementor-section elementor-top-section elementor-element elementor-element-d246af0 elementor-section-height-min-height elementor-section-stretched elementor-section-boxed elementor-section-height-default elementor-section-items-middle\" data-id=\"d246af0\" data-element_type=\"section\" data-settings=\"{&quot;stretch_section&quot;:&quot;section-stretched&quot;,&quot;background_background&quot;:&quot;classic&quot;,&quot;jet_parallax_layout_list&quot;:[]}\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-background-overlay\"><\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-container elementor-column-gap-default\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"has_eae_slider elementor-column elementor-col-100 elementor-top-column elementor-element elementor-element-27827fac\" data-id=\"27827fac\" data-element_type=\"column\">\n\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-wrap elementor-element-populated\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-4d8df440 elementor-widget elementor-widget-heading\" data-id=\"4d8df440\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"heading.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t<style>\/*! elementor - v3.21.0 - 18-04-2024 *\/\n.elementor-heading-title{padding:0;margin:0;line-height:1}.elementor-widget-heading .elementor-heading-title[class*=elementor-size-]>a{color:inherit;font-size:inherit;line-height:inherit}.elementor-widget-heading .elementor-heading-title.elementor-size-small{font-size:15px}.elementor-widget-heading .elementor-heading-title.elementor-size-medium{font-size:19px}.elementor-widget-heading .elementor-heading-title.elementor-size-large{font-size:29px}.elementor-widget-heading .elementor-heading-title.elementor-size-xl{font-size:39px}.elementor-widget-heading .elementor-heading-title.elementor-size-xxl{font-size:59px}<\/style><h1 class=\"elementor-heading-title elementor-size-default\">Our History<\/h1>\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/section>\n\t\t\t\t<section class=\"has_eae_slider elementor-section elementor-top-section elementor-element elementor-element-d40b476 elementor-section-boxed elementor-section-height-default elementor-section-height-default\" data-id=\"d40b476\" data-element_type=\"section\" data-settings=\"{&quot;jet_parallax_layout_list&quot;:[]}\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-container elementor-column-gap-default\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"has_eae_slider elementor-column elementor-col-100 elementor-top-column elementor-element elementor-element-1689606\" data-id=\"1689606\" data-element_type=\"column\">\n\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-wrap elementor-element-populated\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<section class=\"has_eae_slider elementor-section elementor-inner-section elementor-element elementor-element-77c2608 elementor-reverse-mobile elementor-section-boxed elementor-section-height-default elementor-section-height-default\" data-id=\"77c2608\" data-element_type=\"section\" data-settings=\"{&quot;jet_parallax_layout_list&quot;:[]}\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-container elementor-column-gap-default\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"has_eae_slider elementor-column elementor-col-100 elementor-inner-column elementor-element elementor-element-2e66a07\" data-id=\"2e66a07\" data-element_type=\"column\">\n\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-wrap elementor-element-populated\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-2f9660b elementor-widget elementor-widget-heading\" data-id=\"2f9660b\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"heading.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t<h2 class=\"elementor-heading-title elementor-size-default\">LMM Through the Years\u200b<\/h2>\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-1bcd96c3 elementor-widget elementor-widget-text-editor\" data-id=\"1bcd96c3\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"text-editor.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t<style>\/*! elementor - v3.21.0 - 18-04-2024 *\/\n.elementor-widget-text-editor.elementor-drop-cap-view-stacked .elementor-drop-cap{background-color:#69727d;color:#fff}.elementor-widget-text-editor.elementor-drop-cap-view-framed .elementor-drop-cap{color:#69727d;border:3px solid;background-color:transparent}.elementor-widget-text-editor:not(.elementor-drop-cap-view-default) .elementor-drop-cap{margin-top:8px}.elementor-widget-text-editor:not(.elementor-drop-cap-view-default) .elementor-drop-cap-letter{width:1em;height:1em}.elementor-widget-text-editor .elementor-drop-cap{float:left;text-align:center;line-height:1;font-size:50px}.elementor-widget-text-editor .elementor-drop-cap-letter{display:inline-block}<\/style>\t\t\t\t<p>LMM\u2019s mission is to promote shalom (peace, well-being, health, harmony, wholeness) and justice (the demands of right relationship in community) through Christian ministry of service and advocacy with those who are oppressed, forgotten and hurting. LMM has embraced this mission for more than 50 years.<\/p>\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/section>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/section>\n\t\t\t\t<section class=\"has_eae_slider elementor-section elementor-top-section elementor-element elementor-element-6cc2e8b elementor-section-boxed elementor-section-height-default elementor-section-height-default\" data-id=\"6cc2e8b\" data-element_type=\"section\" data-settings=\"{&quot;jet_parallax_layout_list&quot;:[]}\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-container elementor-column-gap-default\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"has_eae_slider elementor-column elementor-col-50 elementor-top-column elementor-element elementor-element-4f7ca9f\" data-id=\"4f7ca9f\" data-element_type=\"column\">\n\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-wrap elementor-element-populated\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-502370c elementor-widget elementor-widget-heading\" data-id=\"502370c\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"heading.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t<h3 class=\"elementor-heading-title elementor-size-default\">The Early Days<\/h3>\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-871426f elementor-widget elementor-widget-text-editor\" data-id=\"871426f\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"text-editor.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<p>According to the late Rev. Richard E. Sering, founding executive director of LMM, such a mission statement and such a mission don\u2019t just happen. He wrote:<\/p><p>\u201cIt was not conjured up in a backroom by clergy ennobled by good Lutheran beer. It gets hammered out over years of following Jesus\u2019 call to participate with him in His kingdom of God ministry\u2014preaching good news to the poor, proclaiming release to the captives, recovering of sight to the blind and setting at liberty those who are oppressed. Wielding the hammers over the years were clergy and lay, younger and older, black and white, male and female, persons with disabilities and able bodied persons, wealthy and modest means, street educated and highly educated, Lutherans, Catholics, Episcopalians, Methodists, Presbyterians, UCC members, Baptists, Jews, Muslims, agnostics and, goodness, probably a few secular humanists.\u201d<\/p><p>LMM\u2019s conception goes back to the pain of the upheaval in the Hough area of Cleveland in the mid 1960s. The campus pastor at Case Western Reserve University called together the All Lutheran Pastoral Conference of Cleveland to consider an appropriate response. Misunderstood by many was a central figure for peace and neighborhood progress, Harllel Jones, often known as \u201cHarllel X\u201d (late director of Community Re-Entry\u2019s Denise McNair New Life Center and longtime civil rights advocate). Harllel was the prime minister of the Afro Set, Cleveland\u2019s most powerful black nationalist organization. Harllel spoke to the pastors, along with Concordia Seminary Professor Dr. David Schuller, an urbanologist. Each in his own way gave the same message; the clergy should unite and act.<\/p>\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"has_eae_slider elementor-column elementor-col-50 elementor-top-column elementor-element elementor-element-8201dd4\" data-id=\"8201dd4\" data-element_type=\"column\">\n\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-wrap elementor-element-populated\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-1231168 elementor-widget elementor-widget-image\" data-id=\"1231168\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"image.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t<style>\/*! elementor - v3.21.0 - 18-04-2024 *\/\n.elementor-widget-image{text-align:center}.elementor-widget-image a{display:inline-block}.elementor-widget-image a img[src$=\".svg\"]{width:48px}.elementor-widget-image img{vertical-align:middle;display:inline-block}<\/style>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"402\" height=\"666\" src=\"https:\/\/www.lutheranmetro.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/07\/1657497869.jpg\" class=\"attachment-large size-large wp-image-2847\" alt=\"Richard E. Sering, Founder\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.lutheranmetro.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/07\/1657497869.jpg 402w, https:\/\/www.lutheranmetro.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/07\/1657497869-181x300.jpg 181w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 402px) 100vw, 402px\" \/>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-816ff28 elementor-widget elementor-widget-text-editor\" data-id=\"816ff28\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"text-editor.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<p>Rev. Richard E. Sering, Founder of LMM<\/p>\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/section>\n\t\t\t\t<section class=\"has_eae_slider elementor-section elementor-top-section elementor-element elementor-element-a23a494 elementor-section-boxed elementor-section-height-default elementor-section-height-default\" data-id=\"a23a494\" data-element_type=\"section\" data-settings=\"{&quot;jet_parallax_layout_list&quot;:[]}\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-container elementor-column-gap-default\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"has_eae_slider elementor-column elementor-col-100 elementor-top-column elementor-element elementor-element-1afae0c\" data-id=\"1afae0c\" data-element_type=\"column\">\n\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-wrap elementor-element-populated\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-10d2556 elementor-widget elementor-widget-text-editor\" data-id=\"10d2556\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"text-editor.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<p>The founding group phoned the Lutheran Human Relations Association of America for assistance. A young Lutheran minister was brought to town from St. Louis in the summer of 1967. Rev. Richard Sering, his wife Susan and baby Jennie lived in the Commodore Hotel that summer. Sering assisted Lutherans to listen to the city, learn of positive initiatives and participate. He also designed a plan for a continuing agency, left the plan with the committee and returned with his family to their parish in St. Louis. The wheels of Lutheran cooperation ground slowly but steadily and, in 1969, a cooperative arrangement was reached involving all Lutheran church bodies. Dick Sering was officially called to direct the effort. He and his family, which now also included a son, Michael, moved to Cleveland in May, 1969, and Lutheran Metropolitan Ministry began.<\/p>\n<p>Rooted firmly in the prophet Micah\u2019s command to \u201cdo justice, love kindness and walk humbly with your God\u201d (Micah 6:8), LMM staff went about \u201cdoing justice,\u201d identifying injustice and working with the people involved to build the right relationships in the community. The philosophy of servant leadership, apparent in the unique structure of LMM, an upside down table of organization, provided an administrative core that undergirded ministry efforts\u2014efforts that, for more than 50 years, have influenced legislation, gained national recognition and, most importantly, touched the lives of people who were oppressed, forgotten and hurting.<\/p>\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-89c0c7d elementor-widget elementor-widget-jet-timeline\" data-id=\"89c0c7d\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"jet-timeline.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-jet-timeline jet-elements\"><div class=\"jet-timeline jet-timeline--align-center jet-timeline--align-middle\">\n\t<div class=\"jet-timeline__line\"><div class=\"jet-timeline__line-progress\"><\/div><\/div>\n\t<div class=\"jet-timeline-list\"><div class=\"jet-timeline-item  elementor-repeater-item-bf06fc4 jet-timeline-item--image-inside\">\n\t<div class=\"timeline-item__card\">\n\t\t<div class=\"timeline-item__card-inner\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"timeline-item__card-content\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"timeline-item__meta\"><\/div><h5 class=\"timeline-item__card-title\">1960s<\/h5><div class=\"timeline-item__card-desc\">Urban upheaval begins in Cleveland\u2019s Hough Neighborhood and Lutheran congregations respond, resulting in the founding of LMM<\/div>\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<div class=\"timeline-item__card-arrow\"><\/div>\n\t<\/div>\n\t<div class=\"timeline-item__point\"><div class=\"timeline-item__point-content timeline-item__point-content--icon\"><span class=\"jet-elements-icon\"><i aria-hidden=\"true\" class=\"fas fa-calendar-alt\"><\/i><\/span><\/div><\/div><div class=\"timeline-item__meta\"><\/div><\/div><div class=\"jet-timeline-item  elementor-repeater-item-af370f3 jet-timeline-item--image-inside\">\n\t<div class=\"timeline-item__card\">\n\t\t<div class=\"timeline-item__card-inner\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"timeline-item__card-content\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"timeline-item__meta\"><\/div><h5 class=\"timeline-item__card-title\">1970s<\/h5><div class=\"timeline-item__card-desc\">Social justice advocacy & community organizing; the start of Community Re-Entry (CR) and Long Term Care Ombudsman (LTCO)<\/div>\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<div class=\"timeline-item__card-arrow\"><\/div>\n\t<\/div>\n\t<div class=\"timeline-item__point\"><div class=\"timeline-item__point-content timeline-item__point-content--icon\"><span class=\"jet-elements-icon\"><i aria-hidden=\"true\" class=\"fas fa-calendar-alt\"><\/i><\/span><\/div><\/div><div class=\"timeline-item__meta\"><\/div><\/div><div class=\"jet-timeline-item  elementor-repeater-item-3aab925 jet-timeline-item--image-inside\">\n\t<div class=\"timeline-item__card\">\n\t\t<div class=\"timeline-item__card-inner\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"timeline-item__card-content\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"timeline-item__meta\"><\/div><h5 class=\"timeline-item__card-title\">1980s<\/h5><div class=\"timeline-item__card-desc\">Establishment of Linking Employment Abilities and Potential (LEAP), Guardianship Services and Maximum Accessible Housing of Ohio (MAHO)<\/div>\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<div class=\"timeline-item__card-arrow\"><\/div>\n\t<\/div>\n\t<div class=\"timeline-item__point\"><div class=\"timeline-item__point-content timeline-item__point-content--icon\"><span class=\"jet-elements-icon\"><i aria-hidden=\"true\" class=\"fas fa-calendar-alt\"><\/i><\/span><\/div><\/div><div class=\"timeline-item__meta\"><\/div><\/div><div class=\"jet-timeline-item  elementor-repeater-item-da5dca9 jet-timeline-item--image-inside\">\n\t<div class=\"timeline-item__card\">\n\t\t<div class=\"timeline-item__card-inner\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"timeline-item__card-content\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"timeline-item__meta\"><\/div><h5 class=\"timeline-item__card-title\">1990s<\/h5><div class=\"timeline-item__card-desc\">LMM youth programs (Support To At-Risk Teens) begins and grows; Women\u2019s Re-Entry Network (WREN) started; CR, LEAP and the Volunteer Guardianship Program expand into Lorain County<\/div>\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<div class=\"timeline-item__card-arrow\"><\/div>\n\t<\/div>\n\t<div class=\"timeline-item__point\"><div class=\"timeline-item__point-content timeline-item__point-content--icon\"><span class=\"jet-elements-icon\"><i aria-hidden=\"true\" class=\"fas fa-calendar-alt\"><\/i><\/span><\/div><\/div><div class=\"timeline-item__meta\"><\/div><\/div><div class=\"jet-timeline-item  elementor-repeater-item-abfbf49 jet-timeline-item--image-inside\">\n\t<div class=\"timeline-item__card\">\n\t\t<div class=\"timeline-item__card-inner\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"timeline-item__card-content\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"timeline-item__meta\"><\/div><h5 class=\"timeline-item__card-title\">2000s<\/h5><div class=\"timeline-item__card-desc\">Transitions in leadership; strengthening of administrative infrastructure; expansion into Housing & Shelter programming<\/div>\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<div class=\"timeline-item__card-arrow\"><\/div>\n\t<\/div>\n\t<div class=\"timeline-item__point\"><div class=\"timeline-item__point-content timeline-item__point-content--icon\"><span class=\"jet-elements-icon\"><i aria-hidden=\"true\" class=\"fas fa-calendar-alt\"><\/i><\/span><\/div><\/div><div class=\"timeline-item__meta\"><\/div><\/div><div class=\"jet-timeline-item  elementor-repeater-item-1b59055 jet-timeline-item--image-inside\">\n\t<div class=\"timeline-item__card\">\n\t\t<div class=\"timeline-item__card-inner\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"timeline-item__card-content\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"timeline-item__meta\"><\/div><h5 class=\"timeline-item__card-title\">2010s<\/h5><div class=\"timeline-item__card-desc\">LMM headquarters moves into renovated, green building at 4515 Superior Avenue; LMM defines main program areas as Housing & Shelter, Workforce Development, and Health & Wellness Services; Chopping for Change (C4C) program begins; agency celebrates it\u2019s 50th Anniversary at the historic League Park in the Hough Neighborhood; Founders Day and The Founders Circle are established<\/div>\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<div class=\"timeline-item__card-arrow\"><\/div>\n\t<\/div>\n\t<div class=\"timeline-item__point\"><div class=\"timeline-item__point-content timeline-item__point-content--icon\"><span class=\"jet-elements-icon\"><i aria-hidden=\"true\" class=\"fas fa-calendar-alt\"><\/i><\/span><\/div><\/div><div class=\"timeline-item__meta\"><\/div><\/div><div class=\"jet-timeline-item  elementor-repeater-item-526f05c jet-timeline-item--image-inside\">\n\t<div class=\"timeline-item__card\">\n\t\t<div class=\"timeline-item__card-inner\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"timeline-item__card-content\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"timeline-item__meta\"><\/div><h5 class=\"timeline-item__card-title\">2020s<\/h5><div class=\"timeline-item__card-desc\">Advocacy footprint expands; 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