The Lutheran Free Church (LFC) was a Lutheran denomination that existed in the United States from 1897 to 1963 mainly in Minnesota and North Dakota. The history of the church predates its official start and a breakaway group of congregations continues to the present under the LFC legacy.
Read more about Lutheran Free Church: Background, Presidents of The LFC, Annual Conferences
Famous quotes containing the words free and/or church:
“To assault the total culture totally is to be free to use all the fruits of mankind’s wisdom and experience without the rotten structure in which these glories are encased and encrusted.”
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