| The Lutheran Church-Missouri Synod chose to participate in cooperative work with other
members of the National Lutheran Council. It was re-formed as the Lutheran Council in the
U.S.A. by the American Lutheran Church, Lutheran Church in America and Lutheran Church
Missouri Synod. When the Association of Evangelical Lutheran Churches came into being in
1976 it also joined LCUSA. The Council provided news and information, ecumenical and
theological studies, cooperative work in American missions, immigration and refugee work,
campus ministry support, and military and institutional chaplaincy coordination. The
Council was discontinued with the merger of the ALC, LCA and AELC to form the Evangelical
Lutheran Church in America, since by 1987 the LCMS had pulled back from many cooperative
programs and there was no need for a coordinating body for what work could be done between
two: ELCA and LCMS.
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