Administrative Files, 1962, 1966-1987.

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Administrative Files, 1962, 1966-1987.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/38922527

Administrative files (1962, 1966-1987) of the Division of Mission and Ministry contain correspondence, minutes and agenda, memoranda, reports, studies, consultation participant lists and papers, staff position descriptions, articles, newsletters, news releases, news clippings, and publications regarding the activities and programs of the Division and of its administrative units and related agencies. Files regard Division administrative issues; non-metropolitan and metropolitan area ministries; ministries targeting African-Americans, Native Americans, Asian Americans, and Hispanic peoples; conferences and consultations on mission issues; coordination of Lutheran Council in the USA (LCUSA) participating church bodies' international and national mission programs; the activities of the Division's Department of Immigration and Refugee Service. (DIRS) and Department of Specialized Pastoral Care and Clinical Education; activities of the Lutheran Domestic Disaster Response Board and Lutheran Housing Coalition; social ministries targeting the physically and mentally challenged; social service agency planning, and volunteer services. Correspondents include Division Executive Secretaries Harold Haas, Donald H. Larsen, and Norman E. Minich; Division consultants and staff; LCUSA General Secretaries C. Thomas Spitz, George F. Harkins, and John R. Houck; LCUSA officials and staff in other divisions and units; LCUSA participating church body officials and mission board members; Lutheran social service agencies; Eugene Crawford, LCUSA American Indian Services and National Indian Lutheran Board director; Lutheran theological school officials; and Lutheran World Federation mission officials.

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Evangelical Lutheran Church in America Library, ELCA Library

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Lutheran Housing Coalition.

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Lutheran World Federation

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Larsen, Donald H., 1925-

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Minich, Norman E., 1926-

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Haas, Harold, 1917-

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Lutheran Council in the USA. Division of Welfare Services.

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Spitz, C. Thomas, Jr., 1921-

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Houck, John R., 1923-

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National Lutheran Indian Board.

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Crawford, Eugene R., 1928-1986

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Lutheran Council in the USA. Division of Mission Services.

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Harkins, George F., 1913-1991.

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Lutheran Immigration and Refugee Service

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Lutheran Immigration and Refugee Service (LIRS) was established in 1967 as a Department under the Division of Welfare Services of the newly created Lutheran Council in the USA (LCUSA)(1967-1987), an inter-Lutheran agency of The American Lutheran Church, Lutheran Church in America, the Synod of Evangelical Lutheran Churches (SELC)(which became an LCMS nongeographic district in 1970), and the Lutheran Church-Missouri Synod. (In 1978, the Association of Evangelical Lutheran Churches jo...

Domestic Disaster Response Board.

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

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(For history of the Lutheran Council in the USA (LCUSA), see OCLC #38922091.). From the description of Administrative Files, 1962, 1966-1987. (Evangelical Lutheran Church in America Library). WorldCat record id: 38922527 ...