Malawi Records 1987-2001 1996-2001

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Malawi Records 1987-2001 1996-2001

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This series comprises records created or retained by persons responsible for coordinating ELCA mission assistance relating to Malawi. 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) walked with the Evangelical Lutheran Church in Malawi (ELCM) in mission efforts. The records are from 1987-2001 with the bulk dating from 1996-2001. This series comprises one accession received into the ELCA Archives and includes records of the program director mentioned in this series' background: the Rev. Benyam A. Kassahun. Record types include primarily business correspondence. This correspondence is typewritten, handwritten, or printed copies of electronic mail. There are other records that include a budget, project grant listings, and project descriptions. Subject matter includes a mission consultation, financial assistance for theological study in the United States, ELCM financial audits, financial assistance for the ELCM, HIV/AIDS awareness, a feeding program for AIDS orphans; the companion synod program; and empowerment of women through micro-credit loans.

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Evangelical Lutheran Church in America Library, ELCA Library

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Evangelical Lutheran Church in America Division for Global Mission

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The first mission efforts in Malawi, which involved the Evangelical Lutheran Church in America (ELCA), took the form of providing funds for projects related to the Evangelical Lutheran Church in Malawi (ELCM), and a companion synod partnership between the Northwest Synod of Wisconsin and the ELCM. While mission efforts in Malawi were coordinated primarily through the Evangelical Lutheran Church in Tanzania and the Evangelical Lutheran Church in Zimbabwe, beginning in 200...

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 ...

Kassahun, Benyam A.

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