Directing Pastor Program Files 1888-1963.

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Mary J. Drexel Home and Philadelphia Motherhouse of Deaconesses. Directing Pastor Program Files 1888-1963.

Directing Pastor Program Files 1888-1963.

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This series comprises program files generated or retained by the directing pastors that served the Mary J. Drexel Home and Philadelphia Motherhouse of Deaconesses (MJDH/PMD) from 1888-1962. The records are from 1888-1963 and include correspondence, biographical information, news articles, sermons, death notices, reports, orders of service and church schedules, circular letters, meeting minute excerpts, copies of letters of call, and position descriptions. These records were retained by the directing pastors as part of their assigned administrative tasks. The bulk of the records are correspondence. It is handwritten and typewritten primarily in English, but much of the earlier correspondence is written in German. It is correspondence received by the pastors and copies of their correspondence sent related to activities of the motherhouse. Subject matter includes publicizing deaconess causes, plans for forming a conference of Lutheran deaconess houses in the United States; observances for fortieth and fiftieth anniversaries of MJHD/PMD; revision of position description for directing pastor, National Lutheran Council Project at Willow Run, Michigan; and circular letters to deaconesses informing them of decisions made at Board of Trustees meetings and Sisters' Conference meetings. Subject matter for other record types includes anniversaries of MJDH/PMD, resignations of directing pastors, letters of call to directing pastors, death notices for deaconesses, associate pastor, and directing pastors, and sermons preached at investitures and consecrations. Records are arranged chronologically from first directing pastor to last directing pastor.

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