Augustana Evangelical Lutheran Church. Immanuel Deaconess Motherhouse and Training School.

See also AUG 42 Administrative History.

At the 1920 meeting of the Evangelical Lutheran Augustana Synod in North America held in Jamestown, New York, it was decided that the Immanuel Deaconess Institute (IDI) needed a newspaper to publicize the deaconess cause and inform church members and others of the IDI's work, as well as the work of the deaconesses in other workstations. The rationale for starting a newspaper included that the practice of having a publication to promote diaconate work was something that was widely practiced in other deaconess institutions. Some examples mentioned included the papers of the Philadelphia Motherhouse of Deaconesses, the Lutheran Deaconess Motherhouse, Baltimore, Maryland, and the Deaconess Institute in Stockholm.

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