National Lutheran Council. Division of Lutheran World Federation Affairs. Dept. of Lutheran Cooperation in Latin America.

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 1951, it created a Division of Lutheran Cooperation in Latin America to assist the Lutheran World Federation (LWF) in establishing its Committee on Latin America, founded in 1952 (this body became a Commission in 1963). In 1956, this Division became the Department of Lutheran Cooperation in Latin America, under the NLC's newly created Division of Lutheran World.

Federation Affairs. Stewart W. Herman, Jr. served as executive secretary of both the Division and Department of Lutheran Cooperation in Latin America and the Division of Lutheran World Federation Affairs (1956- 1963). Levon H. Spath served as part-time secretary of the Department of Lutheran Cooperation in Latin America from 1964 through 1966.

From the description of Correspondence Files, 1948-1968. (Evangelical Lutheran Church in America Library). WorldCat record id: 37498931