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Our History and Status of Organization: |
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Officially Constituted and
Organized at Faith Evangelical Lutheran Church, Duncansville, Pennsylvania on September 7,
1999. |
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Organizational Principles,
Constitutions, Bylaws and Officers ratified by member congregations and pastors on October
7, 1999. |
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Officially Incorporated as a
Non Profit Lutheran Church Body headquartered in the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania with the
Corporate registered offices at Duncansville, Pennsylvania. |
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Organized as a synodical
federation, fellowship, and association of centrist-oriented Evangelical Lutheran
congregations and pastors in North America. |
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ELCM is a U.S.A. Internal
Revenue Code 501 (C) (3) Tax Exempt organization. |
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| When Jesus looked up and saw
the great crowd coming toward him, he said to Philip, Where shall we buy bread for
these people to eat? He asked this only to test him, for he already had in mind what
he was going to do. Philip answered him, Eight months wages would not buy enough bread
for each one to have a bite. Another of his disciples, Andrew, Simon Peter's brother,
spoke up, Here is a boy with five small barley loaves and two small fish, but how far
will they go among so many? John 6:5-8 (NIV) "For Consider your call,
brethren; not many of you were wise according to worldly standards, not many were
powerful, not many were of noble birth; but God chose what is foolish in the world to
shame the wise, God chose what is weak in the world to shame the strong, God chose what is
low and despised in the world, even things that are not, to bring to nothing things that
are, so that no human being might boast in the presence of God. He is the source of your
life in Christ Jesus, whom god made our wisdom, our righteousness and sanctification and
redemption; therefore as it is written, ' Let him who boasts, boast of the Lord.'"
(RSV 1 Corinthians 1:26-31) |
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