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American Lutheran Church (1930-1960). Board of Foreign Missions. Minutes 1920-1973.

Title: Minutes 1920-1973.

The records consist of the minutes of the India Conference from the time of its formation in 1920 until 1973. Also included are cover letters and correspondence related to the minutes. The correspondence is from the officers of the India Conference to the administrators of the home boards. These administrators include JSO BFM Secretary J.H. Schneider; ALC Executive Secretary of the India Section of the BFM C.V. Sheatsley; ALC Executive Secretary of the BFM Richard C. Taeuber; TALC Executive Director of the Division of World Missions Theodore P. Fricke; and TALC Associate Secretary Lester A. Dahlen. The files are arranged chronologically, and those from 1920-1935 are bound.

ArchivalResource: 2 boxes.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/48113127 View

American Lutheran Church (1930-1960). Board of Foreign Missions. Reports 1930-1940.

Title: Reports 1930-1940.

The records consist of annual reports made by Executive Secretary C.V. Sheatsley and reports from the field. The latter are labeled Station Reports, but they also include reports from institutions such as schools and the Katharine Lehmann Hospital. They are arranged chronologically. The records were collected by Sheatsley.

ArchivalResource: 1 box.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/48112896 View

American Lutheran Church (1930-1960). Board of Foreign Missions. Correspondence 1937-1968; 1946-1960.

Title: Correspondence 1937-1968; 1946-1960.

The records contain the correspondence of C.V. Sheatsley and Theodore P. Fricke. Sheatsley served as Executive Secretary of the India Section (1930-1943), and Fricke served first as commissioner and later as Executive Secretary of the Board of Foreign Missions. Sheatsley's correspondence includes a file about a controversy that arose between missionaries F.B. Kantzer and Carl Schwan. The remainder of the records are files of correspondence from individual missionaries. Many include duplicated letters that the missionaries sent to friends and family. These are arranged alphabetically by missionary name.

ArchivalResource: 1 box.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/48112892 View

Evangelical Lutheran Joint Synod of Ohio and Other States. Board of Foreign Missions. Program Files 1910-1930.

Title: Program Files 1910-1930.

Box 1 contains general correspondence related to the India mission field and documents relating to the Hermannsburg Mission Society and Hermannsburg Evangelical Lutheran Mission. the Hermannsburg records were originally kept in volumes held together with string. The file title lists the volume number and the title printed on the cover of each volume. Where there was no title listed, the processor has supplied a title, indicated by brackets. Also in Box 1 are minutes, in German, from the mission field. Box 2 contains a few random issues of mission periodicals, reports, and statistics of the work of the India Conference arranged chronologically, and general subject files arranged alphabetically. There is nothing to indicate what office originally collected these files.

ArchivalResource: 2 boxes.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/48086350 View

American Lutheran Church (1930-1960). Board of Foreign Missions. Minutes 1920-1973. [microform].

Title: Minutes 1920-1973. [microform].

The records consist of the minutes of the India Conference from the time of its formation in 1920 until 1973. Also included are cover letters and correspondence related to the minutes. The correspondence is from the officers of the India Conference to the administrators of the home boards. These administrators include JSO BFM Secretary J.H. Schneider; ALC Executive Secretary of the India Section of the BFM C.V. Sheatsley; ALC Executive Secretary of the BFM Richard C. Taeuber; TALC Executive Director of the Division of World Missions Theodore P. Fricke; and TALC Associate Secretary Lester A. Dahlen. The files are arranged chronologically, and those from 1920-1935 are bound.

ArchivalResource: 8 microfiche.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/54108991 View

American Lutheran Church (1961-1987). Division of World Missions. Correspondence 1935-1973.

Title: Correspondence 1935-1973.

Except for a constitution of the Andhra Lutheran Conference, the records consist of correspondence between the executives of the Board of Foreign Missions (C.V. Sheatsley, Richard Taeuber, and Theodore P. Fricke) and the secretaries and treasurers of the Andhra Lutheran Conference (called India Conference until 1948). The secretaries included are C.W. Oberdorfer, 1955; S. Fritz, 1947-1949; L.H. Heyde, 1949- 1951; Leonard J. Schulz, 1951-1953, 1955-1957, 1963-1968 (secretary-treasurer beginning in 1968); E. Chell, 1953-1954; Gertruth Kettner, 1957-1960; Mildred Monke, 1960-1961; Dorothy Meyer, 1961; Raymond A. Martin, 1961-1962; William N. Weiss, 1968-1971; and Hilma Gjerde, 1973. The treasurers included are A. Wilch, 1936-1937; M.H. Schramm, 1932-1935; Carl M. Doermann, 1938-1945; H.W. Mayer, 1946-1951, 1953-1954, 1960-1963; Willis Nye, 1951- 1953; R.E. Behm, 1955-1958; Joel Mayer, 1960, 1971-1973; W.N. Weiss, 1963-1965, 1969- 1970; Leonard H. Schulz, 1968; and Hermina Meyer, 1973. The correspondence of the treasurers often includes financial statements.

ArchivalResource: 1 box.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/48166186 View

American Lutheran Church (1930-1960). Board of Foreign Missions. Minutes 1930-1941 [microform].

Title: Minutes 1930-1941 [microform].

The records contain the minutes of the India Section of the Board of Foreign Missions of the American Lutheran Church. They include minutes, reports of Executive Secretary C.V. Sheatsley, and correspondence sent as cover letters to accompany the minutes and reports and related materials.

ArchivalResource: 1 microfilm reel 35mm.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/702181813 View