The National Lutheran Council (NLC) was formed 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 1964, the Office of Urban Church Planning, under the NLC's Division of American Missions, conducted the National Capital Region Lutheran Planning Study to evaluate the condition of the Lutheran church in the Washington D.C. metropolitan area in an effort to provide a more effective ministry. Directed by a Central Committee, the study was the cooperative effort of.
Office assistant secretary and study director Howell S. Foster, local Lutheran pastors, Lutheran jurisdictional leaders, and national board members. Church bodies involved in the study included The American Lutheran church, the Lutheran Church in America, and the Lutheran Church- Missouri Synod.
From the description of National Capital Region Lutheran Planning Study Files, 1964- 1966. (Evangelical Lutheran Church in America Library). WorldCat record id: 36907396
