Regional Home Missions Committees Files, 1929-1966, (bulk 1942-1966).

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Regional Home Missions Committees Files, 1929-1966, (bulk 1942-1966).

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Files (1929-1966) contain both general and individual mission correspondence. General files contain background information about the program, listings of Lutheran Home Mission Council's regional councils, correspondence, minutes, conference reports and presentations, procedures for committees, meeting schedules, and form letters and questionnaires to committee members and pastors regarding the establishment of the program and related issues. Individual files contain minutes and agenda, correspondence, reports, and studies of individual regional home missions committees. Correspondents include Division of American Missions officials. And field coordinators, reigional home missions committee secretaries and members, NLC participating church body officials, and Lutheran pastors. The bulk of the records date from the time of the Commission on American Missions' establishment (1942) through the termination of the NLC and formation of the Lutheran Council in the U.S.A. (1966). Earlier records include minutes from committees before and during their time under the Lutheran Home Mission Council's auspices. The Home Missions Council was absorbed into the Commission in 1942, at which time the Council's regional committees were transferred to the NLC. In 1945, the Division established new regional home mission committees and developed new rules of procedure for their operation.

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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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National Lutheran Council. Commission on American Missions.

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National Lutheran Council. Division of American Missions

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The National Lutheran Council (NLC) was formed on September 6, 1918 as a common agency of particpating 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 1942, a Commission on American Missions was established to meet the needs of Lutherans in temporary communities formed by World War II production. After the War and the creation of the Division of American Missions, the p...

Lutheran Home Mission Council.

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