In 1975, Lutheran Immigration and Refugee Service (LIRS) contacted LFSRM to begin resettlement of refugees. Since that time, the LFSRM Refugee & Asylee Programs have helped people who have been uprooted by persecution and violence work towards self-sufficiency through essential resettlement services, including: housing, employment, English language, and cultural orientation.
LFSRM works together with LIRS, and other churches, organizations, community groups, businesses, and individuals to provide the services and supplies necessary for refugees to become self-sufficient and integrate into their new communities.
Refugees are individuals who are forced to flee their countries of origin because of a well-founded fear of persecution due to race, religion, nationality, or membership in a particular social or political group.
Asylees are people already in the United States who receive protected status and are unable to return home for the same reasons that refugees are unable to return home.
LFSRM serves refugees in the Rocky Mountain Region with offices in Denver, Colorado Springs, Greeley, and in Albuquerque, Las Cruces, and Santa Fe in New Mexico.
Get involved!
To volunteer, please click the volunteer button to schedule a Refugee 101 New Volunteer Orientation with our Volunteer Coordinator.
Colorado Springs
c/o First Lutheran Church
1515 N. Cascade
Colorado Springs, CO 80907
719.227.8899