Lutheran World Federation. U.S.A. National Committee

The Lutheran World Federation (LWF) was founded as the successor body to the Lutheran World Convention at its Lund Assembly in Sweden in 1947. The new LWF constitution stipulated that each country in which LWF member church bodies were located establish a national committee to carry out its work and nurture its relationship with that country's member churches. The Executive Committee of the National Lutheran Council, an inter-Lutheran agency established to direct the Lutheran mission efforts of its member bodies, served as the U.S.A. National Committee of the Lutheran World Federation (USANC). With the termination of the NLC in.

1966, the U.S.A. National Committee became its own body. In 1977, the USANC became Lutheran World Ministries.

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