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Global Missions Bibliography
Colombia
BEGINNINGS
1936 CELMOLSA - independent, intersynodical mission; started work in Columbia
1944  Boyaca/Arauca Norwegian Lutheran Church/United Evangelical Lutheran Church - joint mission; took over the work of the CELMOSA mission in 1946
(NLC/UELC - TALC - ELCA)
BIBLIOGRAPHY
Bergh, Joyce W. My Colombian Journal. [Calgary: J.W. Bergh] 1990. 105 pp.

Personal reflections of missionary to Colombia, 1946 - 1970 under the Division for World Mission, Evangelical Lutheran Church in Canada. Tells story of her life and the early life of the Evangelical Lutheran Church of Colombia.

Bergh, Joyce, and Anna Marie Mitchell. American Lutheran Church Women in World Mission: an Oral History and Archives Project. Minneapolis: The American Lutheran Church, Division for World Mission and Inter-Church Cooperation, 1989.

Narrator: Joyce Bergh, ELC/TALC missionary to Colombia, 1947-1960, 1963-1970.

Danielson, Helen, and Fern Gudmestad. American Lutheran Church Women in World Mission: an Oral History and Archives Project. Minneapolis: The American Lutheran Church, Division for World Mission and Inter-Church Cooperation, 1987.

Narrator: Helen Danielson, UELC/TALC missionary to Colombia, 1947-1950, 1953-1972.

Jensen, Corneila, and Fern Gudmestad. American Lutheran Church Women in World Mission: an Oral History and Archives Project. Minneapolis: The American Lutheran Church, Division for World Mission and Inter-Church Cooperation, 1987.

Narrator: Cornelia Jensen, ELC/TALC missionary to Colombia, 1959-1971.

Hedin, Arnold, M.. ed. The Latin American Lutheran Mission : Pioneering in Colombia and Mexico. N.p. [1987]. 187 pp.
Morck, Hildur, and Solveig Swendseid. American Lutheran Church Women in World Mission: an Oral History and Archives Project. Minneapolis: The American Lutheran Church, Division for World Mission and Inter-Church Cooperation, 1989.

Narrator: Hildur Morck, CELMOSA/UELC/TALC missionary to Colombia, 1943-1966, 1970-1976.

Olson, Opal, and Solveig Swendseid. American Lutheran Church Women in World Mission: an Oral History and Archives Project. Minneapolis: The American Lutheran Church, Division for World Mission and Inter-Church Cooperation, 1987.

Narrator: Opal Olson, CELMOSA/ELC/TALC missionary to Colombia, 1943-1978.

 

 

UNPUBLISHED PAPERS
Copies of the Arnfeld C. Morck Colombia Files 1936 - 1976+, which include the history of CELMOSA work, later missionary work, and the history of the Iglesia Evangélica Luterana de Colombia (IELCO), have been donated to the following institutions:

Iglesia Evangélica Luterana de Colombia, Bogotá, Colombia
Lutheran Theological Seminary Library, Saskatoon, Saskatchewan, Canada
Augustana University College Library, Camrose, Alberta, Canada
Dana College Library, Blair, Nebraska, USA
Luther Seminary Archives, St. Paul, Minnesota, USA
Lutheran Bible Institute of Seattle Library, Issaquah, Washington, USA

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