Chaplaincy Files, 1944-1966.

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Chaplaincy Files, 1944-1966.

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Files (1944-1966) contain correspondence, minutes, memoranda, and reports concerning the NLC Office of Chaplaincy Services' work in appointing and training chaplains for service to Veteran Administration hospital patients and Federal prison inmates. Issues of concern include clinical pastoral education, distribution of religious literature to patients, and work of the Division's Committee on Chaplaincy Services and Clinical Training. Correspondents include NLC and Division of Welfare officials and consultants, Lutheran Church-Missouri Synod officials, Lutheran hospital officials, welfare agencies and institutions, Veteran. Administration and Federal prison chaplains, and contact pastors and staff.

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Evangelical Lutheran Church in America Library, ELCA Library

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SNAC Resource ID: 7380785

Evangelical Lutheran Church in America Library, ELCA Library

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Lutheran Church--Missouri Synod.

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National Lutheran Council. Division of Welfare.

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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. By the 1940s, the NLC expanded and reorganized its program through the creation of divisions, departments, commissions, and bureaus. Its Division of Welfare was first established as a Department in 1940 and as a Divisi...