Association of Free Lutheran Congregations

The Association of Free Lutheran Congregations
Current President:	Rev. Lyndon Korhonen
:	270
Mailing Address:	3110 East Medicine Lake Blvd. Plymouth, Minnesota 55441
Official Website:	www.AFLC.org

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Association of Free Lutheran Congregations is the sixth largest Lutheran church body in the United States. The AFLC includes congregations in 27 different states, as well as four Canadian provinces. The AFLC is not an incorporated synod, but a free association. Each local congregation is a separate corporation. Minnesota is the geographic center of the organization, with over 80 congregations and over 12,000 members. There are also numerous congregations in the neighboring states of North Dakota, South Dakota, and Wisconsin. The AFLC headquarters are at 3110 East Medicine Lake Blvd., Plymouth, Minnesota 55441 along with the Association Free Lutheran Bible School and Seminary.

The AFLC was formed by 40 churches in 1962. The churches that formed the AFLC were members of the Lutheran Free Church who did not wish to join The American Lutheran Church. The body was originally called the Lutheran Free Church-not merged. The ALC filed suit against the group for using the name Lutheran Free Church. By 1964 the name Association of Free Lutheran Congregations was established. In 2006 the AFLC had 43,360 baptized members in 267 churches. The estimate for 2009 saw the AFLC growing to 44,000 members.

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 of the Christian faith and life.

Five principal reasons for the formation of the AFLC:

The AFLC allows open communion and women's suffrage in congregational voting.

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