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Lutheran Council in the USA. Division of Mission Services. Dept. of Church and Community Planning. Correspondence Files, 1964-1974.

Title: Correspondence Files, 1964-1974.

Department of Church and Community Planning correspondence files (1964-1974) contain correspondence, minutes and agenda, memoranda, reports, studies, research proposals, news releases, and publications regarding the Department's activities in conducting studies regarding the church's ministry to metropolitan and rural areas and to ethnic groups; and in providing mission planning consultations to Lutheran Council in the USA (LCUSA) participating church body leadership and mission administrators. Files concern liaison and consultant activities with African-American Lutheran clergy; establishment and support of resource centers for planning at Lutheran colleges and seminaries across the U.S.; coordination of church participation in a continuing education program for pastors; provision of consultancy services to. Inter-Lutheran study and planning committees, churches, colleges and seminaries, and mission organizations; and assistance to regional committees participating in the Division's regional American mission planning consultations. Correspondents include Department Secretary Donald H. Larsen; Associate Secretaries Walter Kloetzli, E.W. Mueller, Donald L. Killmer, Victor B. Struefert, John A. Nasstrom, Osgood Magnuson, Will Herzfeld, and Eugene Crawford; LCUSA participating church body mission board officials and staff; theological seminary presidents and faculty; university faculty members; mission agencies, associations, and commissions; and Lutheran pastors and lay persons.

ArchivalResource: 6 boxes.

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National Lutheran Council. Division of American Missions. Dept. of Church in Town and Country. Correspondence Files, 1945-1966.

Title: Correspondence Files, 1945-1966.

Files (1945-1966) contain correspondence, memoranda, reports, policy statements, conference and workshop programs and announcements, studies, and publications regarding the program's rural outreach efforts through area and regional committee meetings, institutes, conferences, and workshops about rural topics; publication of books and pamphlets; studies and reports regarding specific rural communities and regions; consultations with U.S. Department of Agriculture officials, college and university agriculture professors, extension service officers, and national church organizations regarding rural youth and church ministry, soil. Conservation, and rural population and land studies. Correspondents include NLC Division and Department officials and staff; Town and Country regional committee members; NLC participating church body officials; Lutheran pastors from rural communities; U.S. Department of Agriculture officials; college and university agriculture professors; and national church organization leaders. Notable correspondents include E.W. Mueller, Department secretary; Giles C. Ekola, Department assistant secretary; and Phillip F. Aylesworth, U.S. Department of Agriculture secretary.

ArchivalResource: 8 boxes.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/36907370 View