Augustana Lutheran Church Women

See AUG Administrative History, AUG 40/8/1/1/1 Background.

See AUG 40 Administrative History, AUG 40/8/1/1/1 Background.

See AUG 40 Administrative History.

See AUG 40 Administrative History.

A principal objective of the Women's Missionary Society/Augustana Lutheran Church Women (WMS/ALCW) was to educate people about mission-related topics, and the mission work of the church. At first this was accomplished through publishing educational material in two society publications: Calendar and Mission Tidings. In addition to monthly educational programs that appeared in Mission Tidings, there were other programs created for departmental work. In 1931 these programs and other helps began to appear as printed pamphlets. Starting in 1937 educational materials associated with missionary education topics and published for children, young women, and senior women began appearing as program packets produced for each society.

In June 1947 the Woman's Mission Board voted to change the name of the committee to Committee on Missionary Education. The committee was responsible for all aspects of the development of missionary education material from selecting subjects and reviewing manuscripts to promoting the sale of material. In its later years, an increased work load necessitated the formation of subcommittees responsible for the creation of program material for specific age groups. When the ALCW was created in 1958, a new functional committee was created that replaced the Committee on Missionary Education. It was called the Education Committee, but its duties remained essentially the same.

See also AUG 40 Administrative History.

The Quarterly Release was a publication designed for use by local Women's Missionary Society/Augustana Lutheran Church Women officers, and division and department workers. This publication contained important directives and needed information for those working at the local level of the WMS/ALCW. Dolores Runbeck, WMS Director of Promotion, was in charge of the publication. It was an eight-page pamphlet published four times per year beginning in September 1957. As a result of the new publication, bulletins that had been mailed to Teen-Age and Children's leaders were discontinued. This change occurred because with the publication of The Quarterly Release, division leaders, including those for Teen-Age and Children's societies, would receive information regularly. Two issues each year would contain information and directives for Department chairpersons. Included in each issue was a message to local presidents, information on new resources available, suggestions for division leaders and department chairpersons, sections on membership, service, and education, news about the mission periodicals Mission Tidings and Lutheran Women's World, and a page for leaders of Children's and Teen-Age divisions. The last issue was published in November 1962.

See also AUG 40 Administrative History.

The constitution adopted at the Woman's Missionary Society's (WMS) first convention in 1893 provided for an administrative body to oversee business matters between conventions. This Executive Committee comprised five members who were elected annually and met monthly. It expanded to include, in addition to the society's national officers, department secretaries who were responsible for promoting the work of the society's various departments, and conference society presidents. In 1918 the name of the committee changed to Woman's Mission Board (WMB), and the society's elected officers became the board's Executive Committee, whose role it was to conduct the business of the society between WMB meetings. In the 1940s the frequency of regular WMB meetings changed from monthly to twice per year, and later three times per year. The Executive Committee met on a more frequent basis between the meetings of the WMB. In 1949 the name of the board changed to Executive Board. When the society underwent a significant reorganization in 1958, a Board of Directors took the place of the Executive Board and coordinated the work of the newly created Augustana Lutheran Church Women (ALCW) with that of the church-at-large.

See also AUG 40 Administrative History.

The constitution adopted at the Woman's Missionary Society's (WMS) first convention in 1893 provided for an administrative body to oversee business matters between conventions. This Executive Committee comprised five members who were elected annually and met monthly. It expanded to include, in addition to the society's national officers, department secretaries who were responsible for promoting the work of the society's various departments, and conference society presidents. In 1918 the name of the committee changed to Woman's Mission Board (WMB), and the society's elected officers became the board's Executive Committee, whose role it was to conduct the business of the society between WMB meetings. In the 1940s the frequency of regular WMB meetings changed from monthly to twice per year, and later three times per year. The Executive Committee met on a more frequent basis between the meetings of the WMB. In 1949 the name of the board changed to Executive Board. When the society underwent a significant reorganization in 1958, a Board of Directors took the place of the Executive Board and coordinated the work of the newly created Augustana Lutheran Church Women (ALCW) with that of the church-at-large.

See also AUG 40 Administrative History.

The constitution adopted at the Woman's Missionary Society's (WMS) first convention in 1893 provided for an administrative body to oversee business matters between conventions. This Executive Committee comprised five members who were elected annually and met monthly. It expanded to include, in addition to the society's national officers, department secretaries who were responsible for promoting the work of the society's various departments, and conference society presidents. In 1918 the name of the committee changed to Woman's Mission Board (WMB), and the society's elected officers became the board's Executive Committee, whose role it was to conduct the business of the society between WMB meetings. In the 1940s the frequency of regular WMB meetings changed from monthly to twice per year, and later three times per year. The Executive Committee met on a more frequent basis between the meetings of the WMB. In 1949 the name of the board changed to Executive Board. When the society underwent a significant reorganization in 1958, a Board of Directors took the place of the Executive Board and coordinated the work of the newly created Augustana Lutheran Church Women (ALCW) with that of the church-at-large.