Correspondence Files, 1964-1974.

  1. Resources
  2. View Resource

ArchivalResource

Correspondence Files, 1964-1974.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/38922430

Department of Church and Community Planning correspondence files (1964-1974) contain correspondence, minutes and agenda, memoranda, reports, studies, research proposals, news releases, and publications regarding the Department's activities in conducting studies regarding the church's ministry to metropolitan and rural areas and to ethnic groups; and in providing mission planning consultations to Lutheran Council in the USA (LCUSA) participating church body leadership and mission administrators. Files concern liaison and consultant activities with African-American Lutheran clergy; establishment and support of resource centers for planning at Lutheran colleges and seminaries across the U.S.; coordination of church participation in a continuing education program for pastors; provision of consultancy services to. Inter-Lutheran study and planning committees, churches, colleges and seminaries, and mission organizations; and assistance to regional committees participating in the Division's regional American mission planning consultations. Correspondents include Department Secretary Donald H. Larsen; Associate Secretaries Walter Kloetzli, E.W. Mueller, Donald L. Killmer, Victor B. Struefert, John A. Nasstrom, Osgood Magnuson, Will Herzfeld, and Eugene Crawford; LCUSA participating church body mission board officials and staff; theological seminary presidents and faculty; university faculty members; mission agencies, associations, and commissions; and Lutheran pastors and lay persons.

6 boxes.

Evangelical Lutheran Church in America Library, ELCA Library

Information

SNAC Resource ID: 7408956

Evangelical Lutheran Church in America Library, ELCA Library

Related Entities

There are 10 Entities related to this resource.

Mueller, E. W. 1908-1993.

http://n2t.net/ark:/99166/w6md0ksw (person)

Larsen, Donald H., 1925-

http://n2t.net/ark:/99166/w61g2wh6 (person)

Herzfeld, Will Lawrence, 1937-

http://n2t.net/ark:/99166/w6rj6fzc (person)

Will L. Herzfeld, pastor of Bethlehem Lutheran Church in Oakland, California since 1973, was the first African-American bishop to head a Lutheran denomination in the United States. Born in Mobile, Alabama, Herzfeld was enrolled in Lutheran schools beginning at the elementary level and attended the Alabama Lutheran Academy in Selma and graduated with an Associate degree in Arts in 1957 from Immanuel Lutheran College of the Missouri Synod in Greensboro, North Carolina. He further purs...

Struefert, Victor B.

http://n2t.net/ark:/99166/w6ns3wdx (person)

Lutheran Council in the USA. Division of Mission Services. Dept. of Church and Community Planning.

http://n2t.net/ark:/99166/w68978sp (corporateBody)

(For history of the Lutheran Council in the USA (LCUSA), see OCLC #38889555.) The Division of Mission Services was established at the LCUSA's founding to further cooperation among the LCUSA church bodies in their mission activities in the U.S. and abroad. The Division's Department of Church and Community Planning sought to gather and provide resources concerning mission planning for the LCUSA church bodies; produce papers on mission issues related to the church in metropolitan, rura...

Crawford, Eugene R., 1928-1986

http://n2t.net/ark:/99166/w6j110gs (person)

Killmer, Donald L.

http://n2t.net/ark:/99166/w61g3ng7 (person)

Nasstrom, John A., 1926-

http://n2t.net/ark:/99166/w6v1563n (person)

Magnuson, Osgood T., 1918-

http://n2t.net/ark:/99166/w6vh8q5q (person)

Kloetzli, Walter

http://n2t.net/ark:/99166/w63f7r3b (person)