National Lutheran Council: from the Pan-Lutheran Bodies Collection
Scope and Contents
This collection documents the activities of various divisions, departments, commissions, and bureaus of the National Lutheran Council. Types of records included are minutes, agendas, correspondence, promotional materials, pamphlets, statements, addresses, essays, reports, bulletins, and miscellaneous publications.
The records are arranged in 22 series. Series include:
- Series 1: Division of American Missions
- Series 2: Cooperation in Latin America (1951-1954)
- Series 3: Division of Student Services
- Series 4: Division of College and University Work
- Series 5: Division of Welfare
- Series 6: Bureau of Service to Military Personnel
- Series 7: Commission on Younger Churches and Orphaned Missions
- Series 8: Committee on Lutheran Church Center
- Series 9: Lutheran Refugee Alliance
- Series 10: Lutheran Resettlement Service
- Series 11: Lutheran Service Commission
- Series 12: Student Service Commission
- Series 13: USA Committee for Lutheran World Federation
- Series 14: Division of Lutheran World Federation Affairs
- Series 15: Committee on Theological Cooperation
- Series 16: National Lutheran Educational Conference
- Series 17: Commission for Soldiers and Sailors Welfare
- Series 18: Executive Committee Agenda and Minutes
- Series 19: Division on Public Relations (DPR)
- Series 20: Financial Reports and Budget Committee
- Series 21: Miscellaneous
- Series 22: Lutheran World Action
The contents of each series are arranged in the order in which they were originally processed, except items that were consolidated.
Dates
- Other: Majority of material found within 1918 - 1966
Conditions Governing Access
This collection is open for research.
Biographical / Historical
The National Lutheran Council (NLC) was an agency of participating Lutheran church bodies established in 1918 to administer domestic programs, publicize Lutheran activities and beliefs, and provide overseas emergency relief to areas devastated by World War I. By 1940 the NLC expanded and reorganized its program through the creation of divisions, departments, commissions, and bureaus. In 1966 the NLC became the Lutheran Council in the U.S.A.
The eight founding members were:
- General Synod
- General Council
- Ohio Joint Synod
- Iowa Synod
- Augustana Synod
- Norwegian Synod
- Lutheran Free Church
- Danish Church
Extent
10 Linear Feet (18 boxes)
Language of Materials
English
Arrangement
The records are arranged in 22 series. Series include:
- Series 1: Division of American Missions
- Series 2: Cooperation in Latin America (1951-1954)
- Series 3: Division of Student Services
- Series 4: Division of College and University Work
- Series 5: Division of Welfare
- Series 6: Bureau of Service to Military Personnel
- Series 7: Commission on Younger Churches and Orphaned Missions
- Series 8: Committee on Lutheran Church Center
- Series 9: Lutheran Refugee Alliance
- Series 10: Lutheran Resettlement Service
- Series 11: Lutheran Service Commission
- Series 12: Student Service Commission
- Series 13: USA Committee for Lutheran World Federation
- Series 14: Division of Lutheran World Federation Affairs
- Series 15: Committee on Theological Cooperation
- Series 16: National Lutheran Educational Conference
- Series 17: Commission for Soldiers and Sailors Welfare
- Series 18: Executive Committee Agenda and Minutes
- Series 19: Division on Public Relations (DPR)
- Series 20: Financial Reports and Budget Committee
- This series contains financial reports from 1948-1954 and committee minutes.
- Series 21: Miscellaneous
- This series contains news bulletins, studies, essays, booklets, pamphlets, memorandums, constitutions, programs, committee reports, and minutes related to the National Lutheran Council.
- Series 22: Lutheran World Action
Bibliography
Sources Consulted:
Social Networks and Archival Context. National Lutheran Council. http://snaccooperative.org/ark:/99166/w67q36d7Processing Information
This subgroup was reprocessed and consolidated by Archives Assistant, Matthew Kayhart and a new cumulative finding aid was created in March 2019 by archivist Sheila Joy. The materials were previously rehoused and reprocessed by Harold Robinson and Katie McGowan in 2014-2015. Processing stopped at the end of 2015 due to staff changes. When Sheila Joy arrived in December 2015, she was unaware of the processing project. Priority was placed on the collection in Fall 2018 and reprocessing and description was completed March 2019.
Series 1-16 were originally rehoused and processed by Harold Robinson in 2014-2015. The series were originally comprised of boxes 1-17. Mr. Robinson created finding aids for each series. His containing listing was transferred to this new finding aid to retain his original processing.
Series 17-22 were originally rehoused and processed by Katie McGowan in 2014. The series were originally comprised of boxes 1-10.
The boxes (1-17 by Mr. Robinson and 1-10 by Ms. McGowan) were merged and consolidated when Sheila Joy created series 1-22 for the collection to create an ease of access for researchers. The arrangement of previous processors was maintained except in instances where items were consolidated
- Title
- National Lutheran Council Materials
- Subtitle
- Record Group: Pan-Lutheran Bodies
- Status
- Completed
- Author
- Harold Robinson
- Date
- 2014-10-01
- Description rules
- Describing Archives: A Content Standard
- Language of description
- Undetermined
- Script of description
- Code for undetermined script
- Language of description note
- English
Repository Details
Part of the Lutheran Organizations Record Groups, Seminary Archives, United Lutheran Seminary Library, Gettysburg, PA Repository