Advocacy
Step forward as a public church that witnesses boldly to God’s love for all that God has created.
--"ELCA Strategic Direction"
Called to be a public church, the ELCA has an active advocacy network that witnesses social justice on domestic and foreign policy issues facing the nation, and through it, the world.
The Lutheran Office for Public Policy in Wisconsin is one of eighteen State Public Policy Offices within the ELCA. These ministries represent the church at the state government level with and behalf of those without economic or political power. The State Public Policy Offices advocate for issues and not for particular candidates.
The ELCA Washington, DC Office gives voice to the Church's federal and international concerns. The 2009 priorities for the ELCA Washington, DC Office will include health care reform; the Child Nutrition Act Reauthorization; affordable housing issues, and continued work on the economic crisis.
The Lutheran office for World Community represents the ELCA and The Lutheran World Federation at the United Nations in New York.
Finally, the Corporate Social Responsibility program of the ELCA 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.
Additional information on these ministries can be found on the ELCA website at www.elca.org/advocacy.
