The American Association of Lutheran Churches (TAALC, also known as The AALC) is an American
Lutheran church body. It was formed on November 7, 1987 as a continuation of the
American Lutheran Church (ALC) denomination, the majority of which merged with two other Lutheran church bodies, the
Lutheran Church in America (LCA) and the
Association of Evangelical Lutheran Churches (AELC), to form the
Evangelical Lutheran Church in America. The AALC offices were located in
Bloomington, Minnesota. The national office moved to
Fort Wayne, Indiana in 2007. It has 67 congregations, with about 16,000 members, in 2008. Its current Presiding Pastor is the Rev. Dr. Curtis E. Leins.