Marked with the cross of Christ forever, we are claimed, gathered, and sent for the sake of the world
              -Mission Statement of the Evangelical Lutheran Church in America

 Background
I. Theological and Biblical Foundations for Planning for Mission
II. Our Mission
III. Our Vision
IV. Our Operational Values
V. Five Strategic Directions of the ELCA Churchwide Organization

Augsburg Fortress
resources relating to the strategic directions

Summary of the
ELCA Plan for Mission
English Adobe PDF | en Espaņol

The Future of ELCA Institutions 01/06

Outcomes for the Churchwide Organization 03/05

Ecclesiology, Mission, and Structure Adobe PDF 4/04 By the Reverend Dr. H. George Anderson

 

 

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Report on Churchwide Structure Adobe PDF   (adopted by the 2005 Churchwide Assembly)

Report on Governance Adobe PDF
(adopted by the 2005 Churchwide Assembly)

Previous Proposals for Churchwide Structure and Governance 8/25/04
In English and Espaņol

Churchwide Organizational Chart Adobe PDF

Video

"The ELCA in 2012" - Bishop Hanson's Friday evening, October 4, 2002 keynote address at the synod-churchwide consultation (50 minutes)
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Mark S. Hanson,
ELCA Presiding Bishop

 

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