Trinity Lutheran Church is a congregation of the Evangelical Lutheran Church in America (ELCA). The ELCA has over 3 million members spread across the USA. The ELCA was formed in 1988 when three Lutheran church bodies consolidated. The headquarters of the ELCA are in Chicago and the Presiding Bishop is the Rev. Elizabeth Eaton. Trinity is a part of the Southeastern Minnesota Synod of the ELCA, which is headquartered in Rochester, Minnesota. The SE MN Synod consists of 168 congregations with 30,000 baptized members.

• The ELCA is a church called to roll up our sleeves and get to work in the world.
• The ELCA is a church whose unity is in Jesus Christ, who gathers us around Word and water, bread and wine.

The ELCA is a church who worships beneath the cross, always asking what the death and resurrection of Jesus means for the world and in our lives.