The Lutheran Institutional Ministry Association (LIMA) consists of Wisconsin Evangelical Lutheran Synod (WELS) congregations in the upper Midwest. LIMA exists to serve men, women and children with the comforting truths of God's Word. LIMA ministers to those who are hospitalized, in nursing homes or in correctional facilities in the Rochester and Twin Cities, MN areas. LIMA also assists in the WELS campus ministries at the University of Minnesota--Twin Cities and Minnesota State University--Mankato.