Quick Facts

Locations

• Corporate offices: Minneapolis, MN
• Distribution Center: Grove City, OH
• Stores: Augsburg Fortress operates Retail Stores in 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 15-member board. The responsibilities assigned to Augsburg Fortress are described in Section 16.30 of the ELCA Constitution.

Other Cooperative Relationships

Augsburg Fortress works closely with other organizations:

• National Council of Churches and subgroups including:
  • Committee on Uniform Series
• The Fisher's Net/Select Learning
• 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
• Midwest Publishers Association
• Publishers Roundtable
• Protestant Church-Owned Publishers' Association

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

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