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Locations

  • Corporate offices: Minneapolis, MN
  • Distribution Center: Grove City, OH
  • Stores: Augsburg Fortress operates Retail Stores across the United States and Canada

Relationship to the ELCA

Augsburg Fortress is the publishing house of the Evangelical Lutheran Church in America. It is a separate not-for-profit corporation which has its own 21-member board. The responsibilities assigned to Augsburg Fortress are described in Section 16.30 of the ELCA Constitution.

Augsburg Fortress also operates the ELCA Distribution Service to make available to congregations those publications which have been developed by the ELCA churchwide staff.

Other Cooperative Relationships

Augsburg Fortress works closely with other organizations:

  • National Council of Churches and subgroups including:
    • NRSV Bible Translation Utilization
    • Committee on Uniform Series
  • The Fisher's Net
  • Consultation on Common Texts

Augsburg Fortress is a member of the following organizations:

  • Evangelical Church Publishers Association (ECPA)
  • Church Music Publishers Association (CMPA)
  • Cooperative Publishers Association
  • Associated Church Press (ACP)—The Lutheran and Lutheran Woman Today

Augsburg Fortress staff persons are members of many professional organizations including:

  • Association of Lutheran Church Musicians (ALCM)
  • American Choral Directors Association (ACDA)
  • American Guild of Organists (AGO)
  • American Academy of Religion (AAR)
  • Society for Biblical Literature (SBL)
  • Religious Education Association
  • Evangelical Lutheran Education Association (ELEA)
  • North American Academy of Liturgy