National Lutheran Council. Commission on Younger Churches and Orphaned Missions. China Advisory Committee.

The National Lutheran Council (NLC) was established on September 6, 1918 as a common agency of participating Lutheran church bodies to administer domestic programs, publicize Lutheran activities and beliefs, and provide overseas emergency relief to areas devastated by World War I. In 1948, the NLC created a Commission on Younger Churches (1948-1949) and the following year the Commission's name was changed to include Orphaned Missions (CYCOM). Under the leadership of Fredrik A. Schiotz, the Commission supported mission fields and societies, orphanages, younger churches, and schools for the blind from around the world.

The China Advisory Committee was initiated by NLC Executive Secretary Ralph H. Long as an "unofficial" committee with whom Lutheran World Federation China Director Daniel Nelson could counsel. In 1949, CYCOM regularized the Committee by official action. Composed of the superintendents of the American Lutheran societies working in China, it assisted CYCOM through consultation on important decision making issues relating to CYCOM's activities in that country. The Committee was disbanded in 1951 when relief efforts were discontinued due to the Communist take-over of China.

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