Title: ELCA Archives Awarded Grant
ELCA NEWS SERVICE

April 15, 1996

ELCA ARCHIVES AWARDED GRANT

Sorting more than 650 cubic feet of paper and memorabilia is a
full-time job.  The National Historical Publications and Records
Commission of the National Archives has awarded a grant of
$83,310 to the Archives of the Evangelical Lutheran Church in
America, Chicago.  The money will be used to process and catalog
the major collections of the Helen M.  Knubel Archives of
Cooperative Lutheranism.  The two-year grant project is to begin
July 1, as soon as a full-time project archivist and part-time
secretary are hired.  The Knubel Archives contains about 70 years
of records from agencies conducting inter-Lutheran work between
World War I and the formation of the ELCA in 1987.  Documented
activities include famine, refugee and emergency war relief,
church-state relations, immigration services, European-American
church relations, global missions, ecumenical and inter-religious
dialogues, and social welfare.  The Knubel Archives had been
administered by the Lutheran Council in the U.S.A., New York,
until that agency went out of existence in 1987 and its holdings
were transferred to the ELCA Archives.  Plans are in place to
microfilm portions of the collection, and this will be completed
once the materials are processed and cataloged.

For information contact: Ann Hafften, Dir., ELCA News Service,
(312) 380-2958; Frank Imhoff, Assoc. Dir., (312) 380-2955; Lia
Christiansen, Asst. Dir., (312) 380-2956