[american colleen]

I ask because my mother in law is an ECLA (Swedes here are exclusively ECLA)... and she told me last week that there is no one there under age 70 for services. Her parish used to be a thriving Lutheran community but I don't think they passed on the faith very well. My husband went to service and had confirmation at the ECLA as a child and is now an agnostic/atheist. I can understand why one would question religious tenets, but not the existance of God.

[ACAC]

I can understand why an ECLA church is dying. They barely preach the gospel anymore. The MS church we go to has many young people.