ELCA Advocacy Ministries
"He has told you, O mortal, what is good; and what does the Lord require of you
but to do justice, and to love kindness, and to walk humbly with your God?" (Micah 6:8)
There are four advocacy ministries of the Evangelical Lutheran Church in America. Each ministry advocactes for just, sound and compassionate public social policies based upon the officially adopted social justice policy positions of the ELCA.
Please contact the following advocacy offices for more information about their ministries.
One Ministry...many settings:
The ELCA Washington Office fulfills the Evangelical Lutheran Church in America's witness for social justice on domestic and foreign policy issues facing the nation, and through it, the world.
The Lutheran Office for World Community represents the Evangelical Lutheran Church in America and The Lutheran World Federation (LWF) at the United Nations (UN) headquarters in New York under a written agreement between the ELCA Church in Society program unit and the LWF.
State Public Policy Advocacy Offices represent the church in advocating at the state government level with and on behalf of those without economic or political power. State Public Policy Advocacy Offices are located in the following states: Arizona, California, Colorado, Delaware, Illinois, Iowa, Maryland, Michigan, Minnesota, Nebraska, Nevada, New Jersey, New Mexico, New York, North Carolina, Oregon, Pennsylvania, South Carolina, Virginia, Washington, Wisconsin.
The Corproate Social Responsibility Program operates on the belief that God’s business involves all of life and that God calls the Church both corporately and individually to use all that is committed to our care to practice good stewardship of the creation, pursue justice, care for people in need, and to seek things that make for peace.