American Lutheran Church (1961-1987). Joint Union Committee. Subcommittees.

The Joint Union Committee was created to explore the possibility of merging the American Lutheran Church, the Evangelical Lutheran Church, and the United Evangelical Lutheran Church into the American Lutheran Church. Although the group was not officially formed until 1951, preliminary meetings were held beginning in 1949. In the course of its existence, the following subcommittees were formed to carry out the committee's work: Acquisition of Headquarters, Archives, Statistics and Public Relations, Area Offices, Budget Committee, Canada Committee on Polity and Organization, Church Life and Worship and Practices, Constituting Convention Arrangements, Convention Committee on Worship and Church Music, District Affairs, District Boundaries, Doctrine, Editing, Fianancial Commitments, Incorporation and Legal Counsel, Intersynodical Relations, Joint Meetings of Boards, Auxiliaries and Commissions, Personnel, Polity and Organization, Publicity and Public Relations, Revisions Committee, Steering Committee and Year of Jubilee.