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Sunday, April 1, 2012
ADDITIONAL VOTE FOR CONGREGATION VOTING TO LEAVE THE ELCA
Vale Lutheran Church, Vale, SD passed first vote to leave the ELCA, March 2, 2012, 14-1.
Congregation has 39 baptized members. Second vote TBA.
The unreported story is that Biblically faithful Christians are leaving ELCA congregations every day. Their congregation won't leave, so they leave. We are the only congregation in our area that has left the ELCA, and we receive members from the other area churches on a regular basis. We aren't sheep stealing, but we are also not turning them away. They are hungry for Biblical teaching in a Lutheran context.
The unreported story is that Biblically faithful Christians are leaving ELCA congregations every day. Their congregation won't leave, so they leave. We are the only congregation in our area that has left the ELCA, and we receive members from the other area churches on a regular basis. We aren't sheep stealing, but we are also not turning them away. They are hungry for Biblical teaching in a Lutheran context.
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