Administrative Files, 1915, 1967, 1972-1979.

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Administrative Files, 1915, 1967, 1972-1979.

Lutheran Social Service System (LS/3) administrative files (1915, 1967, 1972-1979) contain correspondence, Lutheran agency and institution board minutes, memoranda, reports, LS/3 guidelines for endorsing Lutheran agencies, LS/3 guidelines for writing and revising Lutheran agency by-laws and articles of incorporation, church affiliation applications and related documents, LS/3 newsletters, directory, and other publications regarding the agency's work in evaluating and providing services from Lutheran social service agencies, homes, hospitals and other institutions. Files specificallly concern agency consultations, scholarship grants to soical ministry personnel, agency studies, budgetary issues, Lutheran agency and institution fiscal analysis work conducted by the Service Information Systems for LS/3, and training. Programs for agency and institution administrators and boards. Correspondents include LS/3 Director Ross T. Wilbur; Division of Mission and Ministry officials and staff; lutheran agency and institution administrators and board members; LS/3 Policy Committee members; Lutheran Council in the USA (LCUSA) General Secretaries; and LCUSA church bodies.

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Wilbur, Ross T.

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Lutheran Social Service System.

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The Lutheran Council in the USA (LCUSA) was founded in 1967 as an inter-Lutheran agency of The American Lutheran Church (TALC), the Lutheran Church in America (LCA), the Synod of Evangelical Lutheran Churches (SELC)(which became an LCMS nongeographic district in 1970), and the Lutheran Church-Missouri Synod (LCMS). The Association of Evangelical Lutheran Churches (AELC) joined LCUSA in 1978 and the Latvian Evangelical Lutheran Church in America became a member in 1982. LCUSA coordin...

Lutheran Council in the USA. Division of Mission and Ministry.

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