02345cam a2200241 4500 443324622 TxAuBib 20101019120000.0 980624|||||||||||||||||||||||||||||eng|u JYH JYH OCL OCLCQ DAN TxAuBib National Lutheran Council, Division of American Missions. County By County Populations and Lutheran Membership Study Project Publications. 1. The collection conatin publications (1962-1963) of the Division of American Missions' County By County Population and Lutheran Membership study project. Publications include analysis of the U.S. population from 1950 to 1960 and general Lutheran membership, Lutheran membership in the three major church bodies (The American Lutheran Church, Lutheran Church in America, and Lutheran Church-Missouri Synod), and in open country, towns, and small cities. The third phase publication of the study, "Lutheran Metropolitan Fact Book" (1962), is contained in microfilm form in the Division of American Missions' publication series (NLC 7/9, OCLC #36907496). 20101019. The National Lutheran Council was formed on September 6, 1918 as a common agency of participating Lutheran church bodies to administer domestic programs, publicize Lutheran activities and beliefs, and provide overseas emergency relief to areas devastated by World War I. In 1942, a Commission of American Missions was established to meet the needs of Lutherans in temporary communities formed by World War II production. By 1945, the Commission received division status and expanded its program to include a ministry to rural communities, Jewish people, African Americans, and displaced persons; and an Office of Urban Church Planning. This Office was reconstructed and renamed the Office for Human Relations in 1962. Finding aid available in the archives : folder level control. Received from the University of Illinois at Chicago, University Library/Special Collections, Box 8198, Chicago, Illinois, as authorized by Mary Ann Bamberger, Assistant Librarian/Associate Professor, May 1998. Lutheran Church United States. Lutheran Church Statistics. Lutherans United States.