National Evangelical Lutheran Church

The National Evangelical Lutheran Church was a Finnish-American Lutheran church that was organized 1898 at Rock Springs, Wyoming. The church was started by people who had left the Finnish Evangelical Lutheran Church of America over concerns of losing congregational freedom and autonomy. The church merged with the Lutheran Church - Missouri Synod on January 1, 1964. After about 40 years of close cooperation with the LCMS, during which time all her ministerial students had been trained at LCMS seminaries.