Archives of the Evangelical Lutheran Church in America  
Global Missions Bibliography
Malaysia/Singapore
BEGINNINGS
1949  Sabah, North Borneo Augustana Evangelical Lutheran Church
(AUG - LCA - ELCA)
1953 Malaya/Kuala Lumpur United Lutheran Church in America
(ULCA - LCA - ELCA)
BIBLIOGRAPHY
Consultation: Lutheran Church of Malaysia and Singapore and Lutheran Church in America, Board of World Mission, October 4-10, 1967. N.p.: 1967.

Compilation of speeches delivered and discussions.
Location: ELCA Archives, Chicago

Fisher, Carl Melchior. The Relationship of Financial Subsidy to the Growth and Development of the Lutheran Church in Malaysia and Singapore. Geneva: LWF Department of Studies, N.d. 121pp.
Fisher, Carl Melchior. Stewardship and Church Structure: a Research Project Presented to the Board of World Missions, L.C.A. and the Lutheran Church in Malaysia and Singapore. N.p. 1968. 146 pp.

"What steps can be taken to enable the Lutheran Church in Malaysia and Singapore to utilize its resources, both human and monetary" for support of church programs.

Hult, Adeline Lundquist, Passport to Borneo. Corvallis, Ore.: A.L. and J.E. Hult, 1997. 231pp.
Ishida, Yoshiro. The People of God in Malaysia and Singapore: Indigenization Church Survey. N.p., 1972.
Lau, Warren. A Heavenly Vision: The Story of the Lutheran Church in Malaysia & Singapore, 1952-1991. N.p.: Lutheran Church in Malaysia & Singapore, 1993. 197 pp.

Written by a pastor of the LCMS; an expansion of his thesis.
Location: no information available

Lutheran Church in Malaysia & Singapore: Tenth Anniversary 1973. Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia: N.p., N.d.. 68 pp.

Sketch of development of LCMS from early 1950s and its ten years of existence as a church body. English and Chinese languages.

Nelson, Evelyn, and Solveig Swendseid. Women in Global Mission: an Oral History. Chicago: Evangelical Lutheran Church in America, Division for Global Mission, 1993.

Narrator: Evelyn Nelson, AUG missionary to Malaysia, 1949-1952.

Nyce, Ray. Into a New Age: A Study of Church and Society in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia. N.p.: Institute for Study of Religions and Society (ISRS) in Malaysia and Singapore, 1973. 61pp.
Nyce, Ray. The Jurong Christian Church of the Lutheran Church in Malaysia and Singapore: It’s Development and It’s Significance. N.p.: Institute for Study of Religions and Society (ISRS) in Malaysia and Singapore, 1973. 112 pp

A study requested by the Lutheran Church in America, Division for World Mission and Ecumenism, with extensive bibliography of unpublished materials.

Nyce, Ray. The Kingdom and the Country: A Study of Church and Society in Singapore. N.p.: Institute for Study of Religions and Society (ISRS) in Malaysia and Singapore, 1972. 85 pp
Nyce, Ray. Lift Up Your Heads. N.p.: Institute for Study of Religions and Society (ISRS) in Malaysia and Singapore, 1971. 186 pp.

A research project dealing with church life and work in towns and villages in Western Malaysia being served by the Lutheran Church of Malaysia and Singapore and the Lutheran Church in America, Board of World Mission.

Nyce, Ray. The Work of the Community Organization in Singapore. N.p.: Institute for Study of Religions and Society (ISRS) in Malaysia and Singapore, in conjunction with the Singapore Urban and Industrial Mission Board of the Singapore Branch of the Council of Churches, 1972. 103 pp.

The only good summary of Lutheran attempts in community organization in Singapore. Voluminously documented.
Location: no information available

Tang, Chee Yee, ea., "The l5th Anniversary of the Lutheran Church in Malaysia & Singapore 1963-1978." Lutheran Voice March-April 1979. (Malaysia) 48 pp.

English and Chinese languages.

The 20th Anniversary of the Lutheran Church in Malaysia & Singapore 1963-1983. Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia,: N.p., 1983. 48 pp.

English and Chinese languages. Messages, photos, statistics.

 

 

THESES AND DISSERTATIONS
Fisher, Carl Melchior. 1967. "The Relationship of Financial Subsidy to the Growth and Development of the Lutheran Church in Malaysia and Singapore." S.T.M. thesis, Lutheran School of Theology at Chicago. 121pp.
Vierow, Duain W. 1976. "A Comparison of Tamil and Chinese Lutheran Churches in Peninsular Malaysia and Singapore." D. Miss. thesis, Fuller Theological Seminary. 268 pp.

Analysis of two churches and differences in membership growth patterns. Suggestions for future evangelistic strategy.

Vierow, Duain W. "A History of Lutheranism in Western Malaysia and Singapore." S.T.M. thesis, Lutheran School of Theology at Chicago, 1968. 258 pp.

History of LCMS from "first recorded beginnings" in 1877 to 1965.

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