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The Evangelical Lutheran Church of
America
The Evangelical Lutheran Church of
America (ELCA) is a theologically liberal, Protestant Christian denomination. It
was formed in 1988 as the result of a union of three North American Lutheran church bodies: The American Lutheran Church, the Association of Evangelical Lutheran Churches and the Lutheran Church in America.
The denomination currently has approximately 5,181,000 members with 10,833 churches in the United States. The
ELCA is the 5th largest religious
group in the country.
The ELCA participation in the
FACT project included a survey of 1000 churches randomly chosen from a listing of
all Evangelical Lutheran congregations in the United States. A total of 832
questionnaires
were returned for a 83.2% response rate. View
the version of the questionnaire used by The Evangelical Lutheran Church
of America.
If you are interested in obtaining specific
information about the results of the ELCA survey, please get in
touch with their official contact person Kenn Inskeep at kinskeep@elca.org.
Several additional persons were involved in
collecting the ELCA information. Martin Smith and Kenn Inskeep
were the key researchers, Robert Bacher is the person charged with encouraging denominational congregations to
use this information, and John Brooks is the media contact person for this
information.
You can find further information about the
ELCA Faith Communities Today participation at their web pages
devoted to this project at the Research Office web
site. You can also read
the press release they have distributed. Additionally, the ELCA
has distributed the following articles and survey results:
(Please note: These
documents appear in .pdf format. If you do not have Adobe Acrobat reader,
you may download
it for free from their web site.)
If you would like to know more about the
Evangelical Lutheran Church of America, visit the denomination's official web site at
www.elca.org or these other sites.
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