Articles of Incorporation, Bylaws, Agreements 1965-1970, 1972, 1987

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Lutheran Church in America Deaconess Community of the Lutheran Church in America. Articles of Incorporation, Bylaws, Agreements 1965-1970, 1972, 1987

Articles of Incorporation, Bylaws, Agreements 1965-1970, 1972, 1987

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Records in this series comprise documents that establish and define the officially merged sisterhood known as the Deaconess Community of the Lutheran Church in America (LCA). This community resulted from the merger of three motherhouses affiliated with predecessor churches of the LCA: the United Lutheran Church in America's (ULCA) Philadelphia Motherhouse of Deaconesses and Lutheran Deaconess Motherhouse and Training School, Baltimore, Maryland, and Augustana Evangelical Lutheran Church's Immanuel Association of Lutheran Deaconesses of Omaha. The bulk of records date from 1965-1970 and include the decree and articles of incorporation, adopted and revised bylaws, and copies of the tri-partite agreement that established the new deaconess community and created the framework in which it, its predecessors' corporations, and the LCA's Board of College Education and Church Vocation (BCECV) would relate and work with each other. This series also include statements and reports issued by the BCECV, and later the LCA's Division for Professional Leadership, that outlined these bodies' relationships to the deaconess community, their areas of responsibility as they related to deaconess work, and how these areas interacted with the responsibilities held by the community itself. The last set of records is basic governing documents for one of the predecessor corporations, the Mary J. Drexel Home and Philadelphia Motherhouse of Deaconesses, Inc. This corporation and its Baltimore counterpart, the Baltimore Lutheran Deaconess House and School, Inc. remained in existence after the merger to be responsible for real property, endowments, and other assets. This series includes both original and photocopies of documents.

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