Women's Missionary Society Records 1913-1918.

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General Council of the Evangelical Lutheran Church in North America. Women's Missionary Society. Women's Missionary Society Records 1913-1918.

Women's Missionary Society Records 1913-1918.

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This series consists of records pertaining to the annual meetings and biennial conventions of the Women's Missionary Society of the General Council (WMS). The records cover the time period of 1913 through 1918. They consist of handwritten and typewritten reports and correspondence, in addition to printed booklets from biennial conventions. The majority of the records are annual or biennial reports given at WMS conventions and WMS Executive Committee meetings. There are reports from WMS officers and standing committees along with reports from the women's missionary societies of General Council synods. These records would be valuable used with GC 14/3/1 Convention Minutes and GC 14/3/2 Executive Committee Minutes. In many cases they are the only source for the reports cited in meeting minutes, or they give greater detail than the brief summaries included in official meeting minutes. Some of the reports appear to have dates penciled in some time after the report was generated. Anyone examining this series should keep that in mind that those dates may not be accurate. There are also typewritten copies of adopted resolutions available for some convention years. The correspondence in the series generally pertains to authorizations for payments, notices of committee meetings, scheduling information for upcoming WMS meetings, and invitations to attend other missions-related meetings. In addition to the reports and correspondence, there is also material pertaining to the programs, schedules of events, and orders for service and hymns from some of the WMS biennial conventions.

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