Diakon Family Life Services

Diakon Lutheran Social Ministries is a provider of senior living accommodations and social services, including adoption, counseling, and youth programs, in Pennsylvania and Maryland. With many hands and one heart, Diakon staff members each year touch the lives of approximately 63,000 children, youths, and adults. Diakon's mission is to respond to God's call to serve our neighbors, and Diakon staff members are proud to continue a nearly 150-year tradition of care and hospitality for people of all faiths.

With our name meaning “one assigned to minister to the needs of others,” Diakon was formed by the Jan. 1, 2000, affiliation of Tressler Lutheran Services of Mechanicsburg, Pa., and Lutheran Services Northeast—itself an affiliation between The Lutheran Home at Topton, Pa., and LWS of Northeastern Pennsylvania, Hazleton. With its deepest roots originating in 1868, Diakon’s history includes the legacy of service of such additional organizations as Lutheran Social Services of Maryland, Baltimore.

Working in approximately 50 service centers and senior living communities in the area, some 1,800 Diakon staff members bring hope, hospitality, and healing to thousands of people every day.

Diakon, in fact, was created expressly to serve more people—a goal met nearly every year since its creation. Expanding such ministry is at the heart of the Diakon mission as the organization reaches out, as part of Lutheran Services in America and the Evangelical Lutheran Church in America, to serve those in need.