The Evangelical Lutheran Church in America (ELCA) Region 3 Archives serves as the permanent storage site for the valuable records of midwestern Lutheranism, beginning in the 1840's and continuing to the present.  In the structure of today's ELCA the Region 3 Archives also serves the 9 synod offices in the states of South Dakota, North Dakota and Minnesota.  Most importantly, the Archives makes many different services available to the congregations of these 3 states. 

The full range of our services from advice on writing a congregational history, to questions about basic storage and preservation of records to information on our microfilming service are included in Memory Work:  A Guide for ELCA Congregational Archives and History . 

If you are interested in receiving printed copies of the Guide please let us know (see information below).  If you would like to access the Guide on-line please follow the link above.   We hope that this material is helpful to you and to your congregation, we only ask that if you make copies from this site that you acknowledge where you found it and the organization (the ELCA Region 3 Archives) that made it available.

The Luther Seminary Archives is an institutional collection whose materials tell the story of this school, now over 125 years in operation as a center of theological study.  We are happy to help with the variety of questions that regularly come to us about past students, teachers and other church leaders connected with Luther Seminary.

In 1994 the school marked its 125th anniversary with celebrations at the Seminary.  In 1994 the school marked its 125th  anniversary with celebrations that included the publication of school history, entitled, Thanksgiving and Hope .  If you would like to receive a complimentary copy please contact us (see information below) and we will be happy to send you one.