The
Laestadian Lutheran Church (LLC) is a religious Christian movement, its teachings based on the
Bible and the
Lutheran Confessions. From June 9, 1973, the organisation was named the
Association of American Laestadian Congregations (AALC), before the association changed its name in 1994 in order better to convey its spiritual heritage. , the Laestadian Lutheran Church has 33 member congregations in the United States and Canada, with highest concentrations of members in
Minnesota,
Washington,
Arizona,
Michigan in the United States and in
Saskatchewan, Canada; the congregations are served by a bit over 100 ministers, nearly all of them
lay preachers.