History
The Lutheran Communion in Southern Africa (LUCSA) was founded in May 1991. It is the legal successor of the Federation of Lutheran Churches in Southern Africa (FELCSA) which was formed in 1966 as the need for communion within the Lutheran churches across racial lines was felt. LUCSA is one of the three sub-regional expressions of the Lutheran World Federation within Africa, which understands itself as a communion of churches. The other two are the Lutheran Communion in Central and Eastern Africa (LUCCEA) and the Lutheran Communion in Western Africa (LUCWA).
LUCSA was inaugurated in a constituent assembly which met at the Lutheran Church Centre in Kempton Park, Johannesburg, in 1991. Since then LUCSA has become a platform that enables its member churches to collectively respond to the challenges and the needs of the sub-region.