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Lutheran World Ministries (Agency). General Secretary. Church Body Correspondence Files, 1967-1987.

Title: Church Body Correspondence Files, 1967-1987.

Church body correspondence files (1967-1987) regard the Lutheran Church in America (LCA), The American Lutheran Church (TALC), and the Association of Evangelical Lutheran Churches' (AELC) involvement in and financial support of the U.S.A. National Committee of the Lutheran World Federation (USANC) and in its successor body, Lutheran World Ministries (LWM). Correspondents include USANC and LWM General Secretaries Paul C. Empie, Carl H. Mau, Jr., Paul A. Wee, and Harold T. Hanson; other USANC and LWM officials; and church body presidents, officials, and staff including AELC Presidents William H. Kohn and Will L. Herzfeld; LCA Presidents Robert. J. Marshall and James R. Crumley; and TALC Presidents Kent S. Knutson and David W. Preus.

ArchivalResource: 2 boxes.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/37511103 View

Lutheran World Ministries (Agency). Office on Mission, Service, and Development. Summer Institute for Mission Files, 1976-1985.

Title: Summer Institute for Mission Files, 1976-1985.

Summer Institute for Mission files (1976-1985) contain director's reports, participant lists and addresses, participant biographical and registration material, child-care program information, and financial correspondence. Director's reports include faculty, staff, and speaker lists; letters and other material sent to faculty and participants; participant schedules and a reading bibliography; summaries of group discussion; and Institute midterm and final evaluations.

ArchivalResource: 2 boxes.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/37511254 View

Lutheran World Ministries (Agency). Office on Mission, Service, and Development. Subject Files, 1978-1987.

Title: Subject Files, 1978-1987.

Office on Mission, Service, and Development subject files (1978- 1987) contain correspondence, reports, minutes and agenda, statements, memoranda, grant proposals, mission agency newsletters, news releases, and news clippings regarding Lutheran World Ministries' (LWM) funding for individual mission projects in the U.S. and abroad; establishement of a Center for Global Mission at the Lutheran School of Theology at Chicago (Illinios); financial support for the Lutheran Immigration and Refugee Service's (LIRS) Central America Concerns program; support for victims of tortures in Venda, South Africa; missionary consultations and studies; and. Cooperation with and support of international and national mission organizations and agencies. Files are those of Office Directors Robert J. Marshall, Carl M. Fisher, and Philip A. Johnson.

ArchivalResource: 3 boxes.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/37511193 View

Inter-Lutheran Commission on Worship. The Rev. Ralph Van Loon, Records 1966-1978.

Title: The Rev. Ralph Van Loon, Records 1966-1978.

The records in this series were collected by Ralph Van Loon in his capacity as Coordinator for Worship of the LCA. Records include annual reports, papers, bibliographies, budgets, newsletters, committee documents, correspondence, surveys, evaluations, and drafts of liturgical text and music as well as hymn music and text for the Lutheran Book of Worship (LBW). Many items in this series are not Van Loon's copies of official Inter-Lutheran Commission on Worship (ILCW) documents but are LCA DPS administrative files dealing with the ILCW. The records range from 1968 to 1978, but the bulk of the records is from the mid to late 1970s, when the Lutheran Book of Worship was nearing completion and the ILCW was approaching its end. Some correspondence is in a separate file folder, but other correspondence is arranged by subject and incorporated within the other files, such as correspondence regarding the Contemporary Worship series. Correspondents include local pastors who used the Contemporary Worship series, other ILCW participants, and LCA officials. The most significant portion of this series is devoted to surveys done by the LCA regarding the Lutheran Book of Worship. Files on this subject include Hymn Survey; ILCW Testing, Evaluation Instrument and ILCW Testing, Test Congregations; New Hymnal and New Hymnal Responses; Review Committee; Supplementary Information for Pastors' Review of Liturgical Texts; Survey of Hymns; and all Test files. These files include correspondence from LCA pastors as well as reviews concerning the Lutheran Book of Worship. They also include criticisms and suggestions regarding all aspects of the LBW. The Comparative Hymn Lists were prepared by the Lutheran Church-Missouri Synod (LCMS) Commission on Worship (Fred L. Precht served as its Executive Secretary and Kay E. Cogswell as its Secretary). The ILCW Copyrighted Material for Editorial Use and Review Purposes Only are booklets of material prepared for ILCW participants. The Hymns are simply hymn texts and music that were under consideration for the LBW. The Progress Report contains a draft of and rationale for the order, music, and text of the LBW. Seminary Colloquia on the New Liturgy was a program by the LCA to provide for a thorough review of the liturgy proposed by the ILCW. The files are sub-divided and include correspondence with William G. Rusch and Robert J. Marshall. Rusch was director of the LCA's Department of Ecumenical Relations in the Division for World Mission and Ecumenism and Marshall was president of the LCA.

ArchivalResource: 9 boxes (3.4 cubic ft.)

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/46805269 View