Why are there occasional references to the Central Pennsylvania Evangelical Lutheran Ministerium and General Parish or to CPaELMGP?
The Central Pennsylvania Evangelical Lutheran Ministerium and General Parish or CPaELMGP was the un-incorporated entity that is the Parish arrangement between Faith Evangelical Lutheran Church, Duncansville PA and Barley Ev. Lutheran Church, New Enterprise, PA. This continues to exist as the General Parish arrangement between these two congregations and their Pastor. This General Parish arrangement began in December of 1992 when Faith Lutheran launched the successful Mission effort which resulted in Barley Lutheran congregation. The General Parish continued throughout the our trial membership with TAALC and with LMS-USA and then served as our umbrella organization as we reflected upon whether or not to officially incorporate a Centrist Lutheran Church body. Our Web site began thus as the CPaELMGP Web site and now has become the ELCM Web site. There are lots of documents on the Site and so it will take a bit of time to edit and update all the various pages so that the references are to
