Lutheran World Convention World Mission Files, 1940-1947.

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Lutheran World Convention World Mission Files, 1940-1947.

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Files contain correspondence, mission committee and agency minutes, reports, mission budgets and financial statements, mission publications and statistical reports, and maps relating to Lutheran mission societies' efforts throughout the world. Correspondence relates to mission support requests, particular mission situations and needs, provision of missionaries, relief and reconstruction of churches, NLC financial appeals, and international, national, and Lutheran mission committee meetings. Correspondents include International Missionary Council officials, mission officials and missionaries, American Lutheran church body presidents and. Foreign mission board officials, NLC and LWC officials, and national and international church agency and organization leaders and members. Notable correspondents include A.L. Warnshuis, secretary of the International Missionary Council; Isaac Cannaday, Director of the Gossner Mission in India; J.A. Aasgaard, President of the Norwegian Lutheran Church in America; L. Grady Cooper, President of the American Lutheran Mission of Shantung, China; George Anderson, President of the Augustana Lutheran Mission in Kinyangiri, Tanganyika (East Africa); and Daniel Nelson, the LWC's China Field Director.

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Evangelical Lutheran Church in America Library, ELCA Library

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Evangelical Lutheran Church in America Library, ELCA Library

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Cooper, L. Grady.

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