Lutheran World Federation - Department of World Service Consultation and Program Files, 1975-1987.

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Lutheran World Federation - Department of World Service Consultation and Program Files, 1975-1987.

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Lutheran World Federation - Department of World Service consultation and program files (1960-1987) contain correspondence, meeting minutes, memoranda, reports, financial statements, consultation itineraries and programs, program evaluations, and publications regarding the Department's activities in countries around the world, including Haiti, Tanzania, the Middle East, Jerusalem, Ethiopia, Bangladesh, India, El Salvador, Swaziland, and Zimbabwe. The Department provided emergency relief to victims suffering from natural disasters and lack of food. In order to determine needs, the Department held Related Agencies meetings and. Consultations in which relief agencies provided their counsel and guidance in outlining needed programs and monies. Files also regard visitations to countries by Department of World Service and Lutheran World Ministries (LWM) staff; meetings and consulation with Commission on World Service members regarding the Department's program; cooperation with non- Lutheran agencies in providing relief; and evaluations of the Department's overall program and its specific projects. Files are those of U.S.A. National Committee of the Lutheran World Federation (USANC) and LWM General Secretary Paul A. Wee (1976-1986) and Harold T. Hanson (1986-1987).

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Lutheran World Federation. Dept. of World Service.

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Lutheran World Ministries (Agency). General Secretary.

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Wee, Paul A., 1937-

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Lutheran World Federation. Commission on World Service.

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Hanson, Harold T.

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