It merged with the Lutheran Church – Missouri Synod (LCMS) in 1971 and now operates as the non-geographic SELC District of that body.
By 1959, the use of Slovak as a primary liturgical language had died out and the denomination was renamed the Synod of Evangelical Lutheran Churches, thereby retaining SELC as its acronym.
[1] It joined the Evangelical Lutheran Synodical Conference of North America in 1910, and was one of the two remaining members of that federation (the LCMS being the other) when it was dissolved in 1967.
[3] The SELC was a founding member of the Lutheran Council in the United States of America, which began operations on January 1, 1967.
[1] In 1937, Andrew Duda Sr, one of a group of Slovaks who had moved to the Slavia area of Florida (now part of Oviedo), gave 40 acres (16 ha) and $90,000 to the SELC to open a home for the elderly and for needy children.