And they leave out the Apostolic Lutherans, who are a whole ‘nuther kettle of lutefisk completely...
The elca is not evangelical (it is shrinking, and has been doing so since its inception in 1988), it is not Lutheran (it adopted ccm in 1999), it is not the church (that would be the members of individual congregation around the world and across time).
It can be found in America, however.