Related Internet Links

• Evangelical Lutheran Church in America (ELCA)
  Homepage of the Evangelical Lutheran Church in America.
  • ELCA Metropolitan Washington D.C. Synod
  • ELCA Virginia Synod
  • ELCA Delaware-Maryland Synod
• Iglesia Evangélica Luterana en América (IELA)
  Recursos en Español para congregaciones.

• Lutheran Social Services of the National Capital Area
  Provides services, assists congregations, educates constituents, encourages teamwork within the local community.
• Women of the ELCA
  Serves to affirm, support, and challenge women in their daily ministries at home and around the world.
• Lutherans Concerned North America
  Stands as a community of faith, modeling the gospel within the church and within the lesbian and gay community.
• Lutheran Immigration and Refugee Service (LIRS)
  Serves as an advocate for protection and humane treatment for uprooted people and for intercultural community-building.
• Thrivent Financial for Lutherans
  An organization of Lutherans and their families that combines insurance protection with opportunities for members to help themselves and their communities.
• National Lutheran Home
  To provide for aged persons whose circumstances may require a comfortable residence with board, clothing, employment, medical attention, and such other comforts as Christian brotherhood may dictate.

Education

• Lutheran Theological Seminary at Gettysburg
  Gettysburg Seminary is the oldest of the eight seminaries of the Evangelical Lutheran Church in America (ELCA), tracing its start to 1826.

Publications

• Augsburg Fortress Publishers
  Publishing house of the ELCA. Publishes, produces, and distributes publications of the Church.
• The Lutheran
  General, monthly magazine of the ELCA.
• The Young Lutheran
  Version of The Lutheran for young adults.
• Project Wittenberg
  Electronic library of Lutheranism compiled by volunteers. Includes works by and about Martin Luther and other Lutherans. Also contains quotations, hymns, statements of faith, theological treatises, and links to other sites.

• The Bible Gateway
  Bible search engine in 10 languages.
• The Bible Tutor
  Program of independent study and interactive self-testing which serves to strengthen basic knowledge of the Bible's structure and content.
• The Lutheran-Hymnal.Com
  Includes 3 complete Lutheran Hymnals, The Lutheran Hymnal in midi (with lyrics), Lutheran Worship in midi, and Hymnal Supplement 98.

• The Ecole Initiative
  Hypertext encyclopedia of early Church History. Includes translations of Judæo-Christian and Islamic primary sources to 1500.
• The Ontario Consultants on Religious Tolerance
  Group of volunteers whose goal is to disseminate accurate religious information; expose religious fraud, hatred and misinformation; disseminate information on "hot" religious topics.