Correspondence created at the time of the LCA was removed and placed in LCA collection.

Forms part of: Subgroup ULCA 19/9 International Students

This series contains general correspondence regarding the United Lutheran Church in America's (ULCA) involvement in the theological education of international students. It is from 1948-1967 with the bulk of the material generated from 1953-1962. These records represent a portion of the ULCA's Board of Foreign Missions (BFM) correspondence about financial matters related to scholarships, work of various ecumenical committees related to theological education, international service, and higher education, in general, for international students. Primary authors of this correspondence are Earl S. Erb, Executive Secretary, BFM, and David L. Vikner, Secretary for East Asia, BFM. There is also a small amount of correspondence related to general issues regarding scholarship students. The bulk of information regarding individual students is found in the series ULCA 19/9/2 Scholarship Student Files, 1951-1964.

There is one file pertaining to Mr. Lincoln Chao, a student educated at the Lutheran Bible Institute and Augustana Theological Seminary with the intention of returning to China to teach. The file contains a great deal of correspondence pertaining to the Augustana Evangelical Lutheran Church. It initially sponsored his studies in the United States. It was decided that since the correspondence pertained to one person and a situation in which he was involved, it was best to keep all records related to him together instead of separating a portion of it to place in the Augustana Evangelical Lutheran Church collection.

Augustana Evangelical Lutheran Church > Missions.

United Lutheran Church in America > Missions

Lutheran Church > Missions.

Lutheran Church > Education.