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The Old Apostolic Lutheran Church is the largest Laestadian/Apostolic Lutheran church in America. At its beginning in about 1900, it was a small group when the Laestadian movement in America was splintered, giving rise to the "New Apostolic Lutheran Church" and the "Old Apostolic Lutheran Church."
The Apostolic Lutheran Church of America (ALCA) is a Laestadian Lutheran church denomination established by Finnish American and Norwegian immigrants in the 1800s. They came mainly from northern Finland and northern Norway where they had been members of the state churches.
The Old Apostolic Lutheran congregations hold annual Elders' Meetings, often combined with St. John's summer services, several days to one week long, with guest preachers delivering evening sermons each weekday and two or more church services on the bracketing Sundays.
They are represented in North America by the Old Apostolic Lutheran Church. Rauhan Sana ("Word of Peace") are known to other Laestadians as the "Mickelsens", after 20th-century leader Andrew Mickelsen. They are represented in North America by the Apostolic Lutheran Church of America. The other branches are small and some of them inactive.
The Reformed Lutheran Church of America (RLCA) The Lutheran Evangelical Protestant Church (GCEPC) Lutheran Ministerium and Synod – USA (LMS-USA) North American Lutheran Church (NALC) Old Apostolic Lutheran Church; Orthodox Lutheran Confessional Conference (OLCC) Protes'tant Conference; Wisconsin Evangelical Lutheran Synod (WELS)
Old Apostolic Lutheran Church of America: 1899: 25,000 [298] United States: Orthodox Lutheran Confessional Conference: 2006--[280] United States: Protes'tant Conference: 1927: 1000 [299] United States: United Lutheran Mission Association: 2005--[300] Zambia: Lutheran Evangelical Church in Africa—Zambia Diocese----[301]
The Laestadian Lutheran Church (LLC) is a religious Christian movement, with teachings based from the Bible and the Lutheran Confessions. From June 9, 1973, the organisation was named the Association of American Laestadian Congregations ( AALC ), before the association changed its name in 1994 in order better to convey its spiritual heritage.
In the US and Canada, the Firstborn organized as the Old Apostolic Lutheran Church around the turn of the twentieth century. There are congregations in Alaska , British Columbia , Washington state, Wyoming , Montana , South Dakota , North Dakota , Minnesota , Michigan , Ontario , Delaware , North Carolina , New York , Washington, D.C. , and ...