Lutheran congregations near Menahga and Detroit Lakes in Minnesota have passed final votes to sever ties with the Evangelical Lutheran Church in America.
The votes made those congregations the eighth and ninth congregations to leave the Northwestern Minnesota Syond since the controversial 2009 Churchwide Assembly.
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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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