Our Companion Synod:

Evangelical Lutheran Church in the Central African Republic (EELRCA)

Relationship between the ELCA and EELRCA

How do the Evangelical Lutheran Church of the Central African Republic and the Evangelical Lutheran Church of America accompany one another in ministry?

Through the churchwide ELCA Global Mission unit, the ELCA relates to and is in bilateral relationship with over 80 companion churches and institutions. The ELCA Global Mission unit stewards a church-to-church relationship with the Evangelical Lutheran Church of the Central African Republic. This relationship is deepened and extended by the EELRCA’s relationships, through the ELCA Companion Synods program, with the ELCA Western North Dakota, Eastern North Dakota, and Texas-Louisiana Gulf Coast Synods.

Churchwide funding through the ELCA Global Mission unit supports key priorities identified by the EELRCA, including strengthening the EELRCA’s leadership development, capacity building for the development of effective programs and ministries, as well as sustainable development in the areas of water and sanitation, agriculture, health care, and education. Four ELCA mission personnel serve in CAR in the areas of village-based education and water and sanitation.