# LCMS Convention Workbook_St. Louis Missouri_2023_S7 # Machine transcription, uncorrected — CHI Digital Archive (demonstration) OFFICER, BOARD, AND COMMISSION REPORTS Church Bodies with Whom the LCMS Has Active Church Relations 7 American Association of Lutheran Churches, AALC (U.S.) Lutheran Church of Uruguay, ILU Lutheran Church of Venezuela, ILV Partner Churches (sister church bodies, in altar and Friends (church bodies cooperating with the LCMS in pulpit fellowship with the LCMS) Evangelical Lutheran Church of Argentina, IELA Evangelical Lutheran Church in Belgium, ELKB Evangelical Lutheran Church of Brazil, IELB Lutheran Church—Canada, LCC Confessional Lutheran Church of Chile, ILCC Evangelical Lutheran Free Church in Denmark, ELFCD The Evangelical Lutheran Church of England, ELCE Evangelical Lutheran Mission Diocese of Finland, ELMDF [1] Evangelical Lutheran Church—Synod of France, EEL—SF Independent Evangelical Lutheran Church, SELK (Germany) Evangelical Lutheran Church of Ghana, ELCG Lutheran Church of Guatemala, ILG The Evangelical Lutheran Church of Haiti, ELCH The Lutheran Church—Hong Kong, LCHKS India Evangelical Lutheran Church, IELC Japan Lutheran Church, JLC [2] Evangelical Lutheran Church in Almaty, ELCA (Kazakhstan) Evangelical Lutheran Church in Kenya, ELCK Lutheran Church in Korea, LCK Evangelical Lutheran Church of Latvia, LELB Evangelical Lutheran Church of Liberia, ELCL Evangelical Lutheran Church of Lithuania, LELB Lutheran Synod of Mexico, SLM Lutheran Church of Nigeria, LCN Lutheran Church in Norway and Iceland, LKNI Gutnius Lutheran Church, GLC (Papua New Guinea) Evangelical Lutheran Church of Paraguay, IELP The Lutheran Church in the Philippines, LCP Portuguese Evangelical Lutheran Church, IELP Siberian Evangelical Lutheran Church, SELC (Russia) Evangelical Lutheran Church of Ingria in Russia, ELCIR Free Evangelical Lutheran Synod in South Africa, FELSISA Lutheran Church in Southern Africa, LCSA Confessional Lutheran Church of South Africa, CLCSA Evangelical Lutheran Church in South Sudan and Sudan, ELCSS/S [3] Evangelical Lutheran Church of Spain, IELE, active OIM Mission [4] Ceylon Evangelical Lutheran Church, CELC, active OIM Mission (Sri Lanka) [5] theological dialogue, education, and /or mercy) Lutheran Church of Australia, LCA Lutheran Church in Africa—Synod of Benin, ELA—SBE Christian Evangelical Lutheran Church of Bolivia, ICEL Evangelical Lutheran Church of Burkina Faso, EELBF Lutheran Church in Africa—Synod of Burundi, ELA—SBU Cambodian Lutheran Church, CLC Evangelical Lutheran Church in East Congo, CELCE Evangelical Lutheran Confessional Church in the Congo, EELCC Evangelical Lutheran Church in Congo, EELC Lutheran Church in Africa—Synod Cote D’Ivoire, ELA—SCI (Ivory Coast) Evangelical Church of the Augsburg Confession in the Czech Republic, ECAV Silesian Evangelical Church of the Augsburg Confession, SCEAV (Czech Republic) Evangelical Lutheran Church of Eritrea, ELCE Ethiopian Evangelical Church Mekane Yesus, EECMY Ethiopian Evangelical Lutheran Church, EELC The Lutheran Church of The Gambia, LCG Evangelical Lutheran Church of Guinea, EELG Manipur Evangelical Lutheran Church, MELC (India) The Indonesian Lutheran Christian Church, GKLI West Japan Evangelical Lutheran Church, WJELC Evangelical Lutheran Church in the Republic of Kazakhstan, ELCRK Lutheran Church Concordia, LCC (Kyrgyzstan) Malagasy Lutheran Church, FLM (Madagascar) Confessional Lutheran Church—Malawi Synod, CLC—MS Evangelical Lutheran Church in Malaysia, ELCM Lutheran Church Synod of Nicaragua, ILSN Evangelical Lutheran Diocese in Norway, DELSIN Evangelical Lutheran Church of Panama, IELPA Evangelical Lutheran Church—Peru, IEL—P Lutheran Mission in Africa—Synod of Thousand Hills, LMA— STH (Rwanda) Christ Evangelical Lutheran Church—Sierra Leone, CELC—SL South Sudan Evangelical Lutheran Church, SSELC Mission Province in Sweden, MPS Confessional Lutheran Church in Switzerland, CLCS China Evangelical Lutheran Church, CELC (Taiwan) Evangelical Lutheran Church in Tanzania, ELCT Lutheran Church of Togo, ELT Lutheran Church of East Africa, LCEA (Tanzania) 2023 Convention Workbook