Churchwide Special Offerings Correspondence 1991-1995

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Churchwide Special Offerings Correspondence 1991-1995

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This series consists mainly of correspondence, but also includes financial records and reports regarding churchwide financial appeals from 1991 through 1993. Files are arranged chronologically. Correspondence regarding the 1991 Special Offering includes letters to ELCA synod bishops, board members, and churchwide staff. The correspondence describes the financial difficulties felt in early 1991 and the consequent special offering. Also included is correspondence thanking synods for their participation in the effort to raise funds for the ELCA in its early stages. Copies of letters sent by synod bishops to their pastors are also included in this file. Correspondence regarding the 1992 Ingathering also includes letters to ELCA synod bishops exhorting them to seek financial assistance from their pastors and congregations, as well as letters to Church Council members, synod secretaries and treasurers, regional coordinators, board and committee members, and ELCA churchwide staff. Letters from Bishop Chilstrom and his office give various examples of fund-raising techniques that the pastors could use as well as general requests for help with the Ingathering. Responses are from synod bishops and reflect an overall willingness and ability to participate in the Ingathering. The 1993 Churchwide Offering files contain correspondence, a majority of which is to and from synod bishops. Vision for Mission is the final churchwide offering in this series. The files contain more correspondence from ELCA lay members as well as from ELCA pastors. Also, unlike previous offerings, a greater number of the responses to this funding initiative are negative. Some of the poor response was the result of the Division for Church in Society's draft statement, "The Church and Human Sexuality: a Lutheran Perspective" (see also Human Sexuality Correspondence, ELCA 9/1/1/2/5) and the ELCA's perceived support of the Re-Imagining Conference (see also Subject Correspondence, ELCA 9/1/1/2/9) on women in religion.

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Evangelical Lutheran Church in America Library, ELCA Library

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Evangelical Lutheran Church in America. Office of the Presiding Bishop.

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