Adele Ferguson - ELCA decision on gay pastors

CONGREGATIONS fleeing the Evangelical Lutheran Church in America, now that ELCA has put out the welcome mat for gay pastors, are on the increase.

Lutheran Congregations in Mission for Christ, their new home, is now the fourth largest Lutheran body in the USA, according to The Lutheran Hedgehog, with 192 congregations in this country and about 50 more abroad.

Thirty seven have joined LCMC in the past year, twelve of those since August when the vote was taken in the annual national ELCA meeting that generated their flight. Most LCMC congregations are from ELCA although some are from the Missouri...