The Lutheran | Moving forward: Congregations split, thrive following 2009 Churchwide Assembly action
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| A year ago, some 60 people began a new church when their congregation, Central Lutheran, Elk River, Minn., voted to leave the ELCA. Elk River Lutheran just celebrated one year as a new congregation. They gather in leased retail space, led by their pastor, Cynthia L. Ganzkow-Wold, who says it is "a welcoming, biblical and joy-filled place to be." |
