The NTNL Synod is the local expression of the ELCA. It covers an area from Clovis, NM to the Mississippi River, from the top of the Texas Panhandle to Killeen and Midland.

The Lutheran Church in Sierra Leone is the Companion Synod for the NTNL. This Church, on the west coast of Africa, seeks to reach out with God’s Word to all peoples, replace false teachings with Jesus’ truth, bring physical, psychological, social and political relief to all the needy, speak out and stand against oppression, and fight for justice to foster holistic approach in the teaching and the practice of the Gospel.

Affirming God's love for all people, we work with Lutherans and partners around the world to end poverty, injustice and human suffering.

Watch a video about LWR in the Ukraine.

The NT-NL Mission Endowment Fund seeks to support mission projects in the Northern Texas–Northern Louisiana Mission Area. It works much like a foundation: an endowment fund serves as its core; the principal is invested and only the income from the investment is expended annually to benefit special causes that might otherwise go unfunded and unrealized.

The Parish Lay Ministry Academy is a program of the Northern Texas - Northern Louisiana Synod of the Evangelical Lutheran Church in America for the purpose of providing trained lay leadership for one's home congregation or other ministries of this synod.

Formerly Lutheran Social Services of the Southwest, Upbring brings social services like foster care, adoptions, charter schools, disaster relief and elder services to thousand on behalf of Lutherans across Texas.

1517 Media is the publishing house for the ELCA. You can find bibles, study materials, clothing and even Lutheran Coffee!

The magazine of the Evangelical Lutheran Church in America.

Proclaim your Lutheran heritage with a wide variety of Lutheran-themed items.  From Luther rose necklaces to Saint/Sinner carryalls to Lutheran Chick tattoos, this site has them all.