Local conservative Lutherans preparing for change 'Reformers' will consider a future separate from ELCA. By MELISSA NANN BURKE Daily Record/Sunday News Updated: 09/28/2009 07:12:40 AM EDT Conservatives in the Evangelical Lutheran Church in America voted during the weekend to spend a year laying a course that could lead their group to split with the denomination. With 4.7 million members, the ELCA is the country's largest Lutheran denomination, representing more than 70 congregations in York County. Some members have already left the ELCA since the church decided last month to allow gay people in committed relationships to serve in the pulpit....