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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