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The Iowa District West is one of the 35 districts of the Lutheran Church – Missouri Synod (LCMS), and covers the western half of the state of Iowa including the state capital, Des Moines; the rest of the state forms the Iowa District East. The Iowa District West includes approximately 175 congregations and missions, subdivided into 19 ...
The Argentina district of the LC-MS after 39 years became the separate independent Evangelical Lutheran Church of Argentina (Iglesia Evangelica Luterana Argentina) on August 1, 1986. Southern California: 1929/1930: California and Nevada: Renamed to the Pacific Southwest district in 1989. Iowa East: 1936: Iowa: Iowa West: 1936: Iowa ...
The Iowa District East is one of the 35 districts of the Lutheran Church – Missouri Synod (LCMS), and covers the eastern half of the state of Iowa; the rest of the state forms the Iowa District West. The Iowa District East includes approximately 119 congregations and missions, subdivided into 12 circuits, as well as 32 preschools, 9 ...
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.
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 still a German-language synod while the conference used English. The conference therefore organized as the independent English Evangelical Lutheran Synod of Missouri and Other States in 1888.
Matthew Carl Harrison (born March 14, 1962, in Sioux City, Iowa) is the 13th and current president of the Lutheran Church–Missouri Synod (LCMS). As president, he is the chief ecclesiastical supervisor of the Synod and is responsible for the national program ministries of the LCMS, including the Office of International Mission, which calls and employs some 150 missionaries globally. [1]
The Mid-South District includes approximately 129 congregations and mission stations, subdivided into 12 circuits, as has 17 preschools and 14 elementary schools. Baptized membership in district congregations is over 28,000. [1] The Mid-South District was formed in 1966 when the Western District was divided, also creating the Missouri District.
The Florida–Georgia District is one of the 35 districts of the Lutheran Church – Missouri Synod (LCMS), and encompasses the states of Georgia and Florida, with the exception of the Florida Panhandle which is part of the Southern District; in addition, four Florida congregations and two Georgia congregations are in the non-geographic English ...