The Lutheran Church—Missouri Synod

St. Louis, United States

The Lutheran Church--Missouri Synod, founded in 1847, is America's second-largest Lutheran denomination, with 2.3 million members in some 6,200 congregations across the United States. It is a mission-oriented, confessional Christian church adhering to the Scriptures and to the explication of God's Word as articulated in the Book of Concord of 1580.