Lutheran Beliefs El Salvador Years of solidarity work, dating from the predecessor church and a request of El Salvador's Lutheran Bishop Medardo Gomez, connected Sister Synods to sistered congregations. Though the civil war in El Salvador is over, the situation is still very difficult, challenging, and even dangerous for the church workers and their mostly poor congregations. Government promises made in the Peace Accords have not been kept. Juvenile crime is widespread, random and violent.
Death squads are still active and still target workers for peace and justice.
Wages are low, unemployment high. In the poorer communities technology is archaic and expensive. The process of living takes all of a person's time and energy. Shepherding a flock takes all of a pastor's time and energy. The Salvadoran Sistering Committee has been concerned about the relative silence from its Salvadoran sister congregations for the past two years so it sent a delegation of four persons to El Salvador with the specific task of determining the status of each congregation through a personal visit.