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Title: ELCA 1999 Assembly to be Held in Denver, Colo. ELCA NEWS SERVICE - NEWSBRIEF April 24, 1996 1999 ELCA ASSEMBLY IN DENVER The Evangelical Lutheran Church in America's 1999 Churchwide Assembly will be held August 16-22 in Denver, Colo. The ELCA Church Council made that decision during its April 12-15 meeting in Chicago. The biennial Churchwide Assembly is the ELCA's chief legislative body. Because of the space requirements and "because the utmost attention is exercised for the control of costs related to the assembly, comparatively few sites lend themselves to assembly use," said the Rev. Lowell Almen, ELCA secretary. Key cost factors are overall price for transportation, convention space, housing and food for 1,200 voting members and hundreds of advisory members. The 1997 assembly will be held in Philadelphia. The ELCA has 5.2 million members in 11,000 congregations across the United States and Caribbean. For information contact: Ann Hafften, Dir., ELCA News Service, (312) 380-2958; Frank Imhoff, Assoc. Dir., (312) 380-2955; Lia Christiansen, Asst. Dir., (312) 380-2956