Correspondence

Scope and Contents This series contains documents pertaining to each of the congregations which received subsidy from the GBHM and the BHM from 1977-1996. Included are correspondence, monthly and annual reports, demographic studies, and reports from meetings of individual congregations with the SEW DMB. Some of the congregations represented in this series continue to this day, others had been closed, and still others were never granted manpower. Although the majority of these congregations were mission...

Scope and Contents This series contains extensive correspondence relating to the founding and initial conventions of the CELC. The majority of the correspondence in this series was written by or addressed to Professor Wilbert Gawrisch, the first president of the CELC. File folders in this series are: 18 CELC Correspondence: 1986 – February 199319 CELC Correspondence: March 1993 – July 199420 CELC Correspondence: August 1994 – October 199521 CELC Correspondence:...

Scope and Contents This series contains correspondence pertaining to the work of the Central Africa Medical Mission. Included is general correspondence, copies of the annual Christmas letter written by expatriate nurses in Africa, various reports, and information and contact lists pertaining to CAMM contact women scattered throughout the WELS.Files included in Series 3 are: 16 General Correspondence17 Christmas Letters Written from the Field18 Various Reports...

Scope and Contents This series contains hymnal-related correspondence. The first subseries is devoted to official correspondence and reports, in the following order: Joint Hymnal Committee, Liturgy Committee, Hymn Committee, Tune Committee, Committee Reports. The second subseries contains non-official correspondence, sorted as follows: Addressed to Kurt Eggert, Alphabetically Arranged, General Correspondence (not arranged), Comments on Liturgies, From Werner Franzmann, From Wisconsin Lutheran Chapel....

Scope and Contents In late 1917, the newly merged synod organized into six districts. By 1920, the synod had grown from six districts to eight with the inclusion of the Pacific Northwest District and the Dakota Montana District.* Bergemann used this district structure to organize the greatest share of his correspondence from 1918 until the end of his presidency. Correspondence with individuals and congregations was reckoned according to the district where the pastor or congregation was located. Synodical...

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This series consists of reports, agendas, correspondence, essays and other items from over fifty years of Michigan District Mission Board meetings. There are also some minutes from the late 1970s to the late 1980s intermingled with the reports. The files are arranged chronologically. Files associated with this series are File numbers9-25. Files 20-25 are found in Box 3.

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This series consists of correspondence, photographs, reports, and other documents regarding the faculty of DMLHS and MLA. This series includes documents regarding faculty orientation, the reviews of faculty service, divine calls to MLA, faculty property and other faculty topics. This series was added to the collection from the MLPS collection in March 2005.

Scope and Contents This series consists of correspondence from a large number of correspondents on a variety of topics. This series was found organized by first letter of the last name. Some correspondents included are: Im. F. AlbrechtG.E. BoettcherPaul C. DowidatW.A. EggertConrad FreyIm. P. FreyA.W. FuerstenauG.W. FischerJohn GaussKarl A. GurgelPaul J. GieschenEdgar...

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This series contains minutes, reports, and correspondence pertaining to the various Lutheran groups around the world with whom the Wisconsin Synod was communicating. Included are reports from the Committee on Doctrinal Matters and Commission on Inter-Church Relations (CICR).

Scope and Contents This series contains random documents that relate to Pastor Dahlke's ministry. These documents include general messages that Dahlke gave, various bulletins and agendas from his churches, and a collection of essays by P.E. Kretzmann, which Dahlke compiled.Additionally, of special significance is a collection of Jehovah's Witness Resources that relates to members who left the WELS for the Jehovah's Witnesses. Dahlke's correspondence with these members demonstrates the tragedy of...