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Northwestern Publishing House (NPH) [93] is the official publishing house for the Wisconsin Evangelical Lutheran Synod. Located in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, it produces a wide variety of materials including curriculum, periodicals, books, and worship resources. The publications are mainly for use of churches, schools, pastors, and members of the WELS.
The Protes'tant Conference arose out of a controversy in the WELS over a document known as the Beitz Paper (written by then Wisconsin Synod pastor W. F. Beitz) in 1926–1927. In his paper, Pastor Beitz discussed the doctrinal philosophy then prevalent in the synod.
The Synodical Conference was founded at St. John's Evangelical Lutheran Church in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, a member at that time of the Wisconsin Synod.. In October 1870 the Ohio Synod contacted the Illinois, Missouri, Norwegian, and Wisconsin synods to see if they would be interested in a union of Midwestern confessional synods.
(The WELS severed its fellowship relations with the LCMS in 1961, and also withdrew from the Synodical Conference in 1963.) In 1993, the ELS and WELS, working with a number of other worldwide Lutheran churches, some of which had been founded through mission work by both synods, founded the Confessional Evangelical Lutheran Conference (CELC).
The AFLC accept and believe in the Holy Bible as the complete written Word of God, preserved by the Holy Spirit for salvation and instruction. The AFLC accepts the ancient ecumenical symbols, namely, the Apostles , the Nicene , and the Athanasian Creeds ; Luther's Small Catechism , and the unaltered Augsburg Confession , as the true expression ...
In 2003, the WELS began work on Christian Worship: Supplement. It was published in 2008, 15 years after Christian Worship , and contains 88 hymns numbered from 701 to 788. [ 6 ] The hymnal was intended to be used alongside Christian Worship , providing a newer and broader range of hymns, psalms, and liturgical materials.
The Evangelical Lutheran Diocese of North America (ELDoNA) is a confessional Lutheran church body in the United States.There are twenty-eight pastors in the diocese, serving congregations in Alaska, Arkansas, Florida, Georgia, Illinois, Michigan, Minnesota, Missouri, New Mexico, North Carolina, Oregon, South Carolina, Tennessee, Texas, and Wisconsin plus Colombia and the Philippines.
Wisconsin Lutheran Seminary (WLS) is a post-secondary school that trains men to become pastors for the Wisconsin Evangelical Lutheran Synod (WELS). It is located in Mequon , Wisconsin . The campus consists of 22 buildings, including a library that has over 58,000 volumes and a collection of rare pre-18th century theological books.