The IECLB is the Evangelical Church of Lutheran Confession in Brazil. It has over 1 million members across Brazil in 1808 congregations. It provides various social services like hospitals, schools, and support for children, youth, women, and elders. The IECLB emphasizes being a church in construction, that values plurality and democratic decision making at the congregation level.

2. Our name says
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Igreja
Evangélica de
Confissão
Luterana no
Brasil
IECLB

3. We are Church in Brazil,
Church in construction
Church that give value to plurality
Church that take decisions in Congregation
Church that wages in the horizontality of decisions and ,
Democratizations of process
We are Church in the ways of hope
We are Church that do not conform with itself
We are Church in constant transformation

4. * About a million members
* More than a thousand ministers involved directly with the work
in congregations
* Thousands of people working direct or inderectly to or for
the congregations.
Unity & planning
Strenght and ensure the health and
development of congregations.
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5. Ig. Ev.Lut. no
Chile – 3.000
Ig.no Chile -
11.800
Ig. Ev. No Rio da
Prata – IERP
45.000
Ig. Ev. Lut. Da
der Union – 7.000
Ev.Luth.
Kirche
in Bolivien
18.000
Ig. Ev. Lut.
no Equador
520
Igreja Ev. Lut. na Costa Rica – 600
Igreja Ev. Lutem Honduras – 1.000
Sínodo Lut. Salvadorenho – 12.000
Igreja Ev. Lut. na Nicaragua – 4.000
IECLB
1.000.000 members

6. 18 Synodss
With very
distinct
realities and
geographies

7. Parishes and Parish unions: 474
Congregations: 1808
Preaching points: 1163
 paróquias
 meta do PAMI
474 Parishes

8. Major Concentration
are in the states of
the South and the
State of Espírito
Santo.

9. MEMBERS: 1.000.000
SERVICES: 60.193
BATISMS: 8.242
CONFIRMATIONS: 11.575 DIACONAL SERVICES: 1.085
GROUPS: 10.276
BURIALS: 6.205
WEDDINGS: 3.242
Estatistics

10. Acting
Through departments,
Projects and partnerships

11. Diaconship
59 social centers with 6400 attended people
92 childcare centers with 3100 attended
children

12. Health
21 Hospitals
467 Visitation groups to sick people
22 Supporting groups to handicaped
1097 Community work on health with around 7150
attended people

13. Education
3 Seminaries
60 Evangelical elementary and high schools

14. Work with children
1.829 Groups of kids Sunday school involving 26.500 children
99 Work with impoverished children with 3.150 attended
children

15. Youth work
991 organized
groups, involving
14.000 young

16. Women’s work
1360 groups of OASE, involving 26.300 women
209 other organized groups, involving 2.452 women

17. Work with couples: 517
Work with men: 81
Choir: 783, involving 11.500 people
Music Groups: 388
Liturgy groups: 164

18. Work with Elders
297 organized groups , involving
11.300 Elders
14 Elders home 15 Senior dance groups

19. Other works and initiatives in the whole IECLB

20. Ecumenism

21. Igreja Evangélica de Confissão
Luterana no Brasil
IECLB
Our name
says a lot