First Lutheran Church in Fargo, a congregation of more than 5,000 members, has renewed its giving to the national offices of the Evangelical Lutheran Church in America.

But the church, which has budgeted about $75,000 in benevolence, or 5 percent of its budget, to the ELCA for 2010, is also providing congregants the option to restrict their donations from going to the denomination’s national offices.

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