National Lutheran Council. Division of American Missions. Dept. for the Christian Approach to the Jewish People.

The National Lutheran Council was formed 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. The Department for the Christian Approach to the Jewish People was organized under the Division of American Missions in 1947 to "bring the gospel" to Jewish communities. Mission centers were established to provide study groups and Bible classes, religious publications and Bible translations in Yiddish, and missionary opportunities. Secretaries of the program.

Included: Harold T. Floreen (1949-1952), Nels E. Bergstrom (1953-56), H. Conrad Hoyer (1956-1960), and Lawrence W. Halvorson (1960- 62). The program was discontinued in 1962 as the Division felt that participating church bodies should take over the role of encouraging their local congregations to witness to Jewish people.