Ecumenical Delegations Files, 1981-1988.

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Ecumenical Delegations Files, 1981-1988.

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Ecumenical Delegations files (1981-1988) contain correspondence, participant reports, participant lists and biographical information, itineraires, seminar proposals, resource materials and handbooks, questionnaire responses, and newsclippings regarding study seminars and visitations to and from the U.S., U.S.S.R., Germany, and other Eastern Europe. Correspondence regards arrangement activities for the seminars and visitations. Correspondents include Lutheran World Ministries (LWM) General Secretaries Paul A. Wee and Harold T. Hanson; Lutheran World Federation (LWF) and LWM officials and staff; LWM church member leaders. Eastern European Lutheran church officials, and seminar participants. One file contains information regarding a 1988 German Democratic Republic delegation trip to the U.S. which was coordinated by the Evangelical Lutheran Church in America's (ELCA) Office of Ecumenical Affairs. This body assumed U.S.A. National Committee of the Lutheran World Federation responsibilities after the establishment of the ELCA and the termination of LWM in 1987.

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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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Hanson, Harold T.

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Lutheran World Federation. U.S.A. National Committee

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The Lutheran World Federation (LWF) was founded as the successor body to the Lutheran World Convention at its Lund Assembly in Sweden in 1947. The new LWF constitution stipulated that each country in which LWF member church bodies were located establish a national committee to carry out its work and nurture its relationship with that country's member churches. The Executive Committee of the National Lutheran Council, an inter-Lutheran agency established to direct the Lutheran missio...

Evangelical Lutheran Church in America. Office of Ecumenical Affairs.

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Lutheran World Ministries (Agency). General Secretary.

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Established in 1977 as the successor body of the U.S.A. National Committee of the Lutheran World Federation, LWM was the joint agency of the Lutheran Church in America, The American Lutheran Church, and the Association of Evangelical Lutheran Churches. Its programs focused on world mission, theological and social study, volunteer service, publicity and communication, and international scholarship exchange. In 1987, LWM was terminated with the establishment of the Evangelical Lutheran Church in A...

Wee, Paul A., 1937-

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