Keeping connected

Moving? If you want to know where ELCA congregations are located in any area in the United States — or in Canada, the Bahamas, Bermuda, Puerto Rico and the Virgin Islands — a new service called CLOSE can tell you.

The service shows the names of churches in a specific zip code or town and state, as well as the phone number, the pastor's name and average attendance. To use CLOSE, call (800) 638-3522, Ext. 2560; write to the Division for Congregational Ministries, 8765 W. Higgins Rd., Chicago, IL 60631, Attn. Mildred Dukes; or use the World Wide Web at: http://www.elca.org/findachurch.html.