The Lutheran Council in the USA (LCUSA) was founded in 1967 as an inter-Lutheran agency of The American Lutheran Church (TALC), the Lutheran Church in America (LCA), the Synod of Evangelical Lutheran Churches (SELC)(which became an LCMS nongeographic district in 1970), and the Lutheran Church-Missouri Synod (LCMS). The Association of Evangelical Lutheran Churches (AELC) joined LCUSA in 1978 and the Latvian Evangelical Lutheran Church in America became a member in 1982. LCUSA coordinated the work of the participating church bodies in mission planning; ministry to students, immigrants, and other groups; theological education, dialogues, and studies; service to military personnel; public relations; and government liaison activities. The Division of Mission Services was established at the LCUSA's founding to further cooperation.
Among the LCUSA church bodies in their mission activities in the U.S. and abroad. The Division served the world mission boards of the LCUSA's participating church bodies through the sponsorship of consultations and conferences, studies, and a missionary training program. The world mission program succeeded the inter-Lutheran Lutheran Foreign Missions Conference of North America which had been founded by an National Lutheran Council action in 1919. In 1973, the Division of Mission Services and Division of Welfare Services merged to become the Division of Mission and Ministry. The LCUSA was terminated in 1987 at the founding of the Evangelical Lutheran Church in America (ELCA).
From the description of World Mission Subject Files, 1956-1974. (Evangelical Lutheran Church in America Library). WorldCat record id: 38922063
