NLCS supports our Transportation Program

Thank you to the National Lutheran Communities & Services (NLCS) for their generous 2017 grant award of $4,000 to support our Transportation Program. The NLCS is dedicated to supporting the needs of seniors in the community.

Based in Rockville, Md., NLCS is a not-for-profit, faith-based ministry of the Evangelical Lutheran Church in America’s (ELCA) Delaware-Maryland, Metropolitan Washington, D.C. and Virginia Synods, serving people of all beliefs. With more than 125-years’ experience, NLCS provides seniors with a variety of lifestyle, residential and health care options through retirement communities and services in Maryland and Virginia. Other communities and services sponsored by National Lutheran include The Village at Rockville in Rockville, Md., The Legacy at North Augusta in Staunton, Va., The Village at Orchard Ridge and myPotential at Home in Winchester, Va., and The Village at Crystal Spring in Annapolis, Md., subject to Maryland Department of Aging approval. For more information, visit www.nationallutheran.org.

The Community Impact Program was established to enhance NLCS’ commitment to the greater community through working collaboratively with other organizations and continued efforts to enrich the lives of seniors. Each organization’s proposal met one of the following greatest needs identified by a recent community needs assessment: chronic disease management, navigating and accessing health care and social services, dealing with Alzheimer’s, dementia and memory loss, social isolation and financial insecurity. Gaithersburg HELP’s transportation program addresses several of these priorities by assisting seniors and disabled residents with a ride, by a volunteer or taxi, to their medical or social service appointments.

Gaithersburg HELP was featured in this NLCS video entitled Grace: the unmerited gift of God’s saving love.