National Lutheran Council. Division of Welfare. Children's Service.

The National Lutheran Council (NLC) was founded on September 6, 1918 as a common agency of participating Lutheran church bodies to administer domestic programs, publicize Lutheran activities and beliefs, and provide overseas emergency relief to areas devastated by World War I. By the 1940s, the NLC expanded and reorganized its program through the creation of divisions, departments, commissions, and bureuas. Its Division of Welfare was first established as a Department in 1940 and as a Division in 1946. Formed as a separate functioning program under the Division, Children's Service addressed the needs of displaced children.

Coming to the U.S. under the Displaced Persons Act of 1948. It served as the Lutheran segment of the U.S. Committee for the Care of European Children, Inc.'s unified all-faith program for displaced children. The program ended in 1952.