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American Lutheran Church (1930-1960). Commission on Mexican Missions. Correspondence, Chronological 1923-1961 (inclusive); 1934-1961 (bulk) [microform].

Title: Correspondence, Chronological 1923-1961 (inclusive); 1934-1961 (bulk) [microform].

Two sets of chronologically arranged correspondence were found among The American Lutheran Church (ALC) Commission on Mexican Missions (CMM) records. The less voluminous set contains much correspondence from the ALC Director of Stewardship and Finance, who served as the CMM treasurer. However, it is uncertain if that is the office from which all of the correspondence in that series came. The larger, second set had no discernable provenance. Consequently, the two sets of correspondence will remain in separate folders, but will be interfiled chronologically in this series. The smaller set is usually organized chronologically within the folders (that is not always the case, however), with the most recent date first (i.e. December correspondence is first in the folder, and January correspondence is last), and is identified by the Roman numeral I after the date. The larger set is usually arranged with the most recent date last, i.e. January is first in the folder, and December is last (again, that is not always the case; some files are arranged alphabetically), and is identified by the Roman numeral II after the date. This second set dates only to 1954. Set I contains more than correspondence; it also has telegrams, monthly general fund reports, and financial reports. Some of the folders contain photographs (1923-1924). Some of the correspondence is in German (1930-1933), more in Spanish, but most of it is in English. The correspondence is hand-written as well as typed and is both to and from officers and members of the CMM. Major correspondents are Robert D. Lechleitner, director of the Board of American Missions (BAM); Vernon A. Mohr and Carl N. Roth, Presidents of the American Lutheran Church Texas District; George Beck, pastor of Zion Lutheran Church of Houston, Texas; Jacob C. Felger (also pastor of the First English Evangelical Lutheran Church, Victoria, Texas), Frederick A. Neumeister, and Alvin H. Koehler (at Texas Lutheran college, San Juan), Chairmen of the CMM; CMM members; Carl Christian Hein (ALC president 1930-1937), Emanuel Frederick Poppen (1937-1950), and Henry Frederick Schuh (1951-1960), Presidents of the ALC; Heinz C. Ziehe, John A. Scherzer, and William Durkop, Secretaries of the CMM; Katharine Lehmann, president of the ALC Women's Missionary Federation; officers of the ALC Luther League; officers of the mission boards of the Lutheran Church - Missouri Synod and the Evangelical Lutheran Augustana Synod of North America; and officers of the National Lutheran Council. Early topics in the correspondence mainly concern financing the missions (land acquisition and transfer, salaries, pensions, insurance, construction and maintenance of buildings, publications, equipment), statistics of activity (membership, baptisms) in the missions, and finding adequate teachers for the mission schools. As the missions grew so did the volume of correspondence on maintaining the missions, which still included funding and staffing along with new concerns such as publications and expanding the mission work into Mexico.

ArchivalResource: 8 microfilm reels 35mm.

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American Lutheran Church (1930-1960). Commission on Mexican Missions. Chronological 1923-1961; 1934-1961 [microform]

Title: Chronological 1923-1961; 1934-1961 [microform]

Two sets of chronologically arranged correspondence were found among The American Lutheran Church (ALC) Commission on Mexican Missions (CMM) records. The less voluminous set contains much correspondence from the ALC Director of Stewardship and Finance, who served as the CMM treasurer. However, it is uncertain if that is the office from which all of the correspondence in that series came. The larger, second set had no discernable provenance. Consequently, the two sets of correspondence will remain in separate folders, but will be interfiled chronologically in this series. The smaller set is usually organized chronologically within the folders (that is not always the case, however), with the most recent date first (i.e. December correspondence is first in the folder, and January correspondence is last), and is identified by the Roman numeral I after the date. The larger set is usually arranged with the most recent date last, i.e. January is first in the folder, and December is last (again, that is not always the case; some files are arranged alphabetically), and is identified by the Roman numeral II after the date. This second set dates only to 1954. Set I contains more than correspondence; it also has telegrams, monthly general fund reports, and financial reports. Some of the folders contain photographs (1923-1924). Some of the correspondence is in German (1930-1933), more in Spanish, but most of it is in English. The correspondence is hand-written as well as typed and is both to and from officers and members of the CMM. Major correspondents are Robert D. Lechleitner, director of the Board of American Missions (BAM); Vernon A. Mohr and Carl N. Roth, Presidents of the American Lutheran Church Texas District; George Beck, pastor of Zion Lutheran Church of Houston, Texas; Jacob C. Felger (also pastor of the First English Evangelical Lutheran Church, Victoria, Texas), Frederick A. Neumeister, and Alvin H. Koehler (at Texas Lutheran college, San Juan), Chairmen of the CMM; CMM members; Carl Christian Hein (ALC president 1930-1937), Emanuel Frederick Poppen (1937-1950), and Henry Frederick Schuh (1951-1960), Presidents of the ALC; Heinz C. Ziehe, John A. Scherzer, and William Durkop, Secretaries of the CMM; Katharine Lehmann, president of the ALC Women's Missionary Federation; officers of the ALC Luther League; officers of the mission boards of the Lutheran Church - Missouri Synod and the Evangelical Lutheran Augustana Synod of North America; and officers of the National Lutheran Council. Early topics in the correspondence mainly concern financing the missions (land acquisition and transfer, salaries, pensions, insurance, construction and maintenance of buildings, publications, equipment), statistics of activity (membership, baptisms) in the missions, and finding adequate teachers for the mission schools. As the missions grew so did the volume of correspondence on maintaining the missions, which still included funding and staffing along with new concerns such as publications and expanding the mission work into Mexico.

ArchivalResource: 8 microfilm reels 35mm.

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American Lutheran Church (1930-1960). Board of Foreign Missions. Correspondence 1919-1960; 1930-1960.

Title: Correspondence 1919-1960; 1930-1960.

The records consist of correspondence to and from the members and staff of the Board of Foreign Missions (BFM) of the American Lutheran Church (ALC). Some pre-date the ALC from the time when its predecessor church body, the Evangelical Lutheran Synod of Iowa and Other States (Iowa Synod), was in charge of the New Guinea mission work. Most of the files are organized by the name of the person who created the file. Chief correspondent of Box 1 is F. Braun, who served both as the Chair of the New Guinea Section from 1931-1938 and as Finance Agent (later Financial Secretary) from 1940-1945. Box 2 contains correspondence of Braun as well as of Richard Taeuber, Executive Secretary of the New Guinea Section from 1931-1943 and of the BFM from 1944-1947. Box 4 and part of Box 5 are credited to Theodore Fricke, Commissioner from 1945-1947 and Executive Secretary of the Board of Foreign Missions from 1948-1960. Fricke's files include correspondence with the United Evangelical Lutheran Church in Australia, Department of World Missions. The files for Braun, Taeuber, and Fricke are further titled by the name of the chief correspondent, though the one named may not be the only correspondent. The correspondents include individuals such as F. Otto Thiele, long-time mission official of the United Evangelical Lutheran Church in Australia (UELCA) and director of the combined work of the Iowa Synod and the UELCA, and C.C. Hein, president of the American Lutheran Church. They also include the related mission groups, the Rheinische Missions Gesellschaft and the Neuendettelsau Mission Society, which founded and later handed over the fields in which the ALC was working. A large section of the Fricke records deal with the Commission on Younger Churches and Orphaned Missions of the National Lutheran Council and the Department of World Mission of the Lutheran World Federation. Box 4 also includes the New Guinea correspondence of Emmanuel Poppen, president of the ALC. Poppen's correspondence is arranged chronologically. Box 5 records, labeled internal, consist of correspondence among members of the Board of Foreign Missions. The remainder of Box 5 and all of Box 6 and Box 7 contain correspondence between the BFM and the New Guinea field superintendents (later called presidents) for the Lutheran Mission Madang (LMM) and the Lutheran Mission New Guinea (LMNG). These include J.F. Mager, 1932; F.E. Pietz, 1932-1938; Paul E. Fliehler, 1939-1942; and John Kuder, 1945-1960. Kuder's records contain letters to and from A.C. Frerichs, who acted as president in 1951-1952 and 1959-1960 when Kuder was on furlough. The Kuder records are further separated into letters from Kuder and letters to Kuder.

ArchivalResource: 7 boxes.

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