Tanzania Records 1975-2005; 1988-2002

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Tanzania Records 1975-2005; 1988-2002

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This series comprises records created or retained by persons responsible for coordinating ELCA mission activities in Tanzania. These records were generated during the course of documenting, monitoring, and publicizing projects, programs, and general updates pertaining to the efforts to practice the accompaniment model of mission whereby the ELCA's Division for Global Mission (DGM) walks with the Evangelical Lutheran Church in Tanzania (ELCT) in mission efforts. The records are from 1976-2005, but the bulk date from 1988-2002. The date range precedes the existence of the ELCA because certain records were retained permanently by the area program director and as such were kept in this series for continuity purposes. This series comprises several accessions received into the ELCA Archives and as such includes records of the program directors mentioned in this series' background: Carol J. Birkland, Lynda M. Tidemann, and Gaylord M. Thomas. Record types include correspondence, meeting minutes, project proposals, progress reports, audit reports, assistance applications, financial statements, budget proposals, project reports, agenda, exhibits, memoranda, and topical papers and resource materials. The series includes minutes, correspondence and financial reports related to the ELCT and include records that pertain to specific departments of the ELCT. It also includes records pertaining to work carried out by agencies coordinating the mission efforts of partner churches and the ELCT. The series is arranged into three subseries. Two of these subseries represent documentation of mission work related to Tanzania as represented by the Lutheran Coordination Service (LCS) and its successor Lutheran Mission Cooperation. LMC, as well as its predecessor LCS works as a means by which the ELCT coordinates its work with the mission agencies of churches in Denmark, the United States, Norway, Germany, and Finland. These records include proceedings and minutes from annual assemblies as well as minutes from executive committee meetings. The third subseries comprises records that document the ELCA's global mission partnership with the ELCT, as well as the work of ELCT dioceses as they partnered with the ELCA, as well as its various synods in the companion synod program. Subject matter for records includes educational partnerships, secondary as well as post-secondary education, community health programs, HIV/AIDS prevention, Stand With Africa efforts to combat hunger, and Operation Bootstrap Africa. Also included in this series are records related to ELCA missionaries and trip reports of ELCA program directors. While this series includes records related to specific governing councils, committees, and assemblies, it does not have complete sets of these minutes and in most cases, there are many gaps in the records. This caveat also holds true for church publications, audit reports, financial statements, and membership statistics. It appears that whatever was sent to DGM is what comprised the files. It cannot be ascertained if consistent efforts were made to fill in any gaps in the records.

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Lutheran Church in America. Division for World Mission and Ecumenism

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See LCA 28/5/3 Background. From the description of Guyana Correspondence and Subject Files 1971-1978. (Evangelical Lutheran Church in America Library). WorldCat record id: 48086325 See LCA 28 and LCA 28/5. From the description of Subject Files 1965-1987; 1971-1987. (Evangelical Lutheran Church in America Library). WorldCat record id: 48086317 From the description of Lutheran Church in America. : Division for World Mission and Ecumenism. Subject Files by ...

Birkland, Carol J., 1945-

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Lutheran Mission Cooperation

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Tidemann, Lynda M.

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Lutheran Church in America

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Organized June 28, 1962, by consolidation of the American Evangelical Lutheran Church, the Augustana Evangelical Lutheran Church, the Finnish Evangelical Lutheran, and the United Lutheran Church in America; began to function formally on Jan. 1, 1963. From the description of Minutes, 1962-1987. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 70924950 ...

Evangelical Lutheran Church in America Division for Global Mission.

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See also AUG 24/8 Background, LCA 16/5/1/2 Background, LCA 28/2/3/1 Background, and TALC 14/6/7 Background. In 1988, the first year of the Evangelical Lutheran Church in America, its Division for Global Mission (DGM) work related to mission activities in Tanzania fell under the responsibility of the area secretary for Africa. Quickly a new work area that included Tanzania was created in 1989 - Middle East and East Africa. Carol J. Birkland was its area secretary from 198...

Evangelical Lutheran Church in America

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Formed by the merger, as of Jan. 1, 1988, of the Lutheran Church in America, the American Lutheran Church (1961-1987), and the Association of Evangelical Lutheran Churches; includes 65 synods and ca. 11,000 congregations, with headquarters in Chicago, Ill. From the description of Minutes, 1987-[ongoing]. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 71123254 The goal of the American Lutheran Church Women in World Mission Oral History Project, and its continuation, the Evangelical Lutheran ...

Lutheran Coordination Service.

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Evangelical Lutheran Church in Tanzania. General Assembly

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Evangelical Lutheran Church

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Venturia, North Dakota. From the description of Records, 1912-1974. (State Historical Society of North Dakota State Archives). WorldCat record id: 17732915 Formed in 1917 by synods with Norwegian/Danish background such as the Hauge Synod, the Norwegian Synod, and the United Norwegian Lutheran Church, with numerous districts in eastern, midwestern, and Pacific areas as well as Canada; offices in Minneapolis, Minn.; merger with American Lutheran Church (1930-1960) and United E...

Thomas,Gaylord M.

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