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The Lutheran Church – Missouri Synod (LCMS), also known as the Missouri Synod, [2] is a confessional Lutheran denomination in the United States. With 1.7 million members as of 2022 [ 4 ] it is the second-largest Lutheran body in the United States, behind the Evangelical Lutheran Church in America .
The LCMS president, C. F. W. Walther, urged the Tennessee Synod members to organize themselves as a conference of the Tennessee Synod, the English (Evangelical) Lutheran Conference of Missouri. [ 2 ] The conference applied for admission to the LCMS as a district in 1887, but was advised to instead form a separate synod because the LCMS was ...
From the time of its founding in 1847, for eight years until 1854, the LC-MS held annual synod-wide conventions. However, given the rapid growth in number of confessional Evangelical Lutheran congregations and the large geographic area then covered by the synod in its first decade in the United States, from the States of Iowa in the west, to western New York state in the northeast, and from ...
Website www .txdistlcms .org The Texas District is one of the 35 districts of the Lutheran Church – Missouri Synod (LCMS), and comprises the state of Texas with the exception of El Paso County , which is in the Rocky Mountain District .
Website www .mid-southlcms .com The Mid-South District is one of the 35 districts of the Lutheran Church – Missouri Synod (LCMS), and encompasses the states of Arkansas and Tennessee , as well as southwestern portions of Kentucky ; the rest of Kentucky is divided between the Indiana District and the Ohio District .
Website www .cnh-lcms .org The California–Nevada–Hawaii District is one of the 35 districts of the Lutheran Church – Missouri Synod (LCMS), and encompasses the state of Hawaii , California with the exception of its eight southernmost counties, and Nevada with the exception of Clark County at its southern end.
The Lutheran Church–Missouri Synod Foundation is the investment and trust administration corporation for the Lutheran Church–Missouri Synod (LCMS). The LCMS Foundation serves the LCMS, the Concordia University System, and the congregations, schools, seminaries, districts, Recognized Service Organizations, and other affiliated service organizations of the LCMS.
The district now includes approximately 52 congregations and missions (the fewest of any LCMS district), subdivided into 4 circuits, as well as 13 preschools and 4 elementary schools. As of 2021, baptized membership in district congregations was 13,876, and communicant membership was 11,239.