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The California–Nevada–Hawaii District includes approximately 188 congregations and missions, subdivided into 19 circuits, as well as 36 preschools, 32 elementary schools and 1 high school. Baptized membership in district congregations is approximately 39,000.
The Pacific Southwest District is one of the 35 districts of the Lutheran Church – Missouri Synod (LCMS). It covers Southern California (the eight southernmost counties in California, including the Los Angeles metropolitan area), Arizona and the southern tip of Nevada, and includes approximately 291 congregations subdivided into 32 circuits, as well as 72 preschools, 65 elementary schools ...
The LCMS also calls these organizations "partner churches". [8] The American Association of Lutheran Churches says their altar and pulpit fellowship with the Missouri Synod means the two church bodies are "separate but interdependent", [9] and that pastors of each organization may be called to permanent pastoral positions in the other. [10]
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.
The Northwest District includes approximately 267 congregations and missions, subdivided into 25 circuits, as well as 93 preschools, 31 elementary schools and 4 high schools. Baptized membership in district congregations is approximately 65,461.
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
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 ...
The Southern Illinois District includes 96 congregations [2] and 1 mission start, [3] subdivided into 11 circuits, as well as 14 preschools, 22 elementary schools, and 3 high schools. [4] Baptized membership in district congregations is 43,046. [ 5 ]