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The ELCA has schools which are part of the Network of ELCA Colleges and Universities while the Lutheran Church–Missouri Synod has the Concordia University System. Other denominations such as the Wisconsin Evangelical Lutheran Synod , Evangelical Lutheran Synod , Church of the Lutheran Brethren , also have their own colleges and universities.
All school supplies should be provided to pupils free of charge, according to an analysis of the education code by Kathleen Fay, family engagement commission consultant for the California State PTA.
Founded as a non-sectarian school, later run by the Methodists and Presbyterians, taken over by the Synod of the Norwegian Evangelical Lutheran Church in America in 1901 Golden Valley Lutheran College
The Association of Free Lutheran Congregations (AFLC) is the sixth largest Lutheran church body in the United States. The AFLC includes congregations from the former Lutheran Free Church in 27 different U.S. states and four Canadian provinces. The AFLC is not an incorporated synod, but a free association. Each local congregation is a separate ...
The Evangelical Lutheran Church in America (ELCA) has seven seminaries: Lutheran School of Theology at Chicago (Illinois) Lutheran Theological Southern Seminary (Columbia, South Carolina): merged with Lenoir–Rhyne University; Luther Seminary (St. Paul, Minnesota)
As of January 1, 2014, PLTS became the seminary of California Lutheran University, a Lutheran university located in Thousand Oaks, California. [3] [2] The mission of PLTS is to equip people to put their faith into action as the church and culture face dramatic change; because people who follow their purpose can transform a community, and the world.
The encyclopedia of the Lutheran Church (3 vol 1965) vol 1 and 3 online free Brauer, James Leonard and Fred L. Precht, eds. Lutheran Worship: History and Practice (1993) Brug, John F., Fredrich II, Edward C., Schuetze, Armin W., WELS and Other Lutherans .
The Evangelical Lutheran Church in America consists of 65 synods which are configured into nine regional offices. Each of the synods of the ELCA elects one bishop and three synod council officers at its Synod Assembly to oversee the spiritual and organizational activities of its member congregations. [1]