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NORFOLK, Va. (ELCA) -- The Association of Lutheran Social Ministry Organizations (ALSMO) has set the stage to take its place alongside Catholic Charities U.S.A. as the largest charity in the country. The ALSMO annual meeting here April 26 unanimously approved a "strategic alliance" of more than 250 Lutheran social ministry organizations across the United States and Caribbean with the Evangelical Lutheran Church in America (ELCA) and Lutheran Church-Missouri Synod (LCMS).In 1995 about 89,000 volunteers helped 83,000 employees serve 1,763,000 people in non-residential services and 106,000 in residential services, including 20,000 elderly in independent living and 43,000 elderly in nursing facilities. The combined income of the Lutheran social ministries was $2.4 billion and expenses were $2.3 billion.
For comparison, Catholic Charities USA reported total income of $1.93 billion and expenses of $1.86 billion in 1994.
Lutherans are not Fundamentalists. Interestingly, they are one of the nearest sects to Catholicism, theologically speaking.