Krause volunteer director to help more
as regional development director
August 15, 2005

Katy - Lutheran Social Services has named Diane Covert as regional development director for southeast Texas. For the past two years Covert has worked to improve the lives of emotionally and behaviorally disturbed children through her role as director of volunteer services at Krause Children’s Center in Katy. The promotion expands her responsibilities to include all ministries of Lutheran Social Services in southeast Texas: children’s residential treatment, therapeutic foster care, adoption, retirement communities and disaster response.

Covert replaces former director of community and church relations, Bernard Scrogin. Scrogin retired after serving LSS for more than 19 years.

Covert’s promotion is well deserved. While serving as the first director of volunteer services at Krause, Covert inspired new support from the Katy community and grew the program to include more than 35 mentors and 250 volunteers.

Covert looks forward to having a broader impact on the success of LSS programs and clients’ lives. “I want to raise awareness and much-needed funds so that more people can receive the kind of help that they need and deserve,” said Covert.

Covert studied computer science at Tulsa University before attending Lancaster Bible College to study theology. She has served the Katy community for more than four years as a philanthropist and artist.

Lutheran Social Services is the social service arm of the Evangelical Lutheran Church in America and The Lutheran Church - Missouri Synod. LSS annually serves more than 23,000 children, elderly and poor in Texas and Louisiana regardless of religious beliefs, ethnicity, gender or age.