Part One: General Survey: missions from Biblical times to present. Part Two: "The Various Mission Fields" India, China, Southeastern Asia, Oceania, The Japanese Empire, The Near East and North Africa, Africa, Latin America. Book list.

Includes country reports on Madagascar, Nigeria, Ethiopia, Liberia, South Africa, Cameroon, Southern Rhodesia, South West Africa, Tanganyika, and the Lutheran church in Asia.

Stories and reflections from missionaries serving around the world.

Personal reflections and stories based on the authors’ service with Lutheran World Relief from 1963-1972 in Korea, Vietnam, India and Bangladesh.

Overview of Lutheran Free Church mission work in China, Hongkong, Formosa, Japan, Madagascar, and the Santal Mission (India). Bibliography; lists of missionaries.

Accounts of work supported by the Iowa Synod in New Guinea and the Ohio Synod in India.

Chapters on Bible study of missions, Mohammedans, India, Africa, Madagascar, China, Japan, South Pacific, Latin America. Lists of Lutheran missions to each area. Suggested book lists.

Some contents appeared in earlier book, In the Lands of Pagodas, Temples and Mosques. Topics: Islam, India, Africa, Madagascar, China, Japan, Southeast Asia, Latin America.

Brief histories of churches in various parts of the world, written by persons from that area. Includes Japan, China, Taiwan, Hong Kong, Korea, Southeast Asia, India, Middle East, Africa, Latin America.

Foreign missions of the American Lutheran Church, Augustana Lutheran Church, Evangelical Lutheran Church, Finnish Evangelical Lutheran Church, Lutheran Brethren, Lutheran Church-Missouri Synod, Lutheran Free Church, United Evangelical Lutheran Church, United Lutheran Church, and Wisconsin Synod. Also Missionary Societies: Latin American Lutheran Mission, Lutheran Orient Mission, Santal Mission, World Mission Prayer League. Lutheran World Federation -- Commission on World Missions.

Reports of missionaries serving in India, Africa (Liberia), Japan, China, South America and North America.

Promotional booklet celebrating Lutheran missions during World War II.

Includes history of mission work in Madagascar and China. Extensive descriptions.

"With Special Reference to the Foreign Missions of the United Lutheran Church in America" Missions in India, Japan, Liberia, South America (British Guiana and Argentina), China. Includes suggested books for further reading.

John Christian Frederick Heyer, Lemon Leander Uhl, Anna Sarah Kugler, Hans Christian Schmidt, Agnes Ida Schade, David Alexander Day, Charles Lafayette Brown, Edward Julius, Hans Mueller, Carl John Voskamp. Board of Foreign Missions of The United Lutheran Church in America.

Travelogue and report of mission work in India, China and Japan.

Survey of Lutheran foreign missions. Includes United Lutheran Church (India, Japan, South America, China); Norwegian L. C. (South Africa and Madagascar); Augustana Synod (China, Africa); Joint Synod of Ohio (India); Synod of Iowa (New Guinea); Lutheran Free Church (Madagascar and China); Synod of Missouri, Ohio and Other States (India and China). Bibliography.

Brief summaries of work in Argentina, the Caribbean, Chile, Ethiopia, Europe, Ghana, Guyana, Hong Kong, India, Indonesia, Japan, Liberia, Malaysia/Singapore, The Middle East, Nepal, Peru, Philippines, Taiwan, Tanzania, Thailand, Uruguay, and Zaire. Also, ecumenical action and Lutheran World Ministries. Also leader’s guide, published separately.

Account of travels of Dr. and Mrs. S. C. Eastvold from June 1 - December 2, 1958 during a leave of absence from the positions of President and First Lady of Pacific Lutheran College. Includes visits to missions in Cameroon, Zululand, Tanganyika, Madagascar, Ethiopia, Egypt, Athens/Palestine, India, Indonesia, Hong Kong, Formosa, and Japan.

Peter Fjellstedt (1802-1881) was Swedish. He spent periods of time in India and Asia Minor, and organized the first Mission Institute in Sweden.

Brief overview and summary of mission work of the U.E.L.C. (Danish) in Sudan (Nigeria), Japan, Colombia, and India (Santal, Parganas).

Brief sketches for the purpose of mission education in congregations.
Location: Luther Seminary

Compilation of articles which appeared in One in 1965 and 1966. Hans P. S. Schreuder in South Africa, August Mylius in India, John Hogstad in Madagascar, Johannes Flierl in New Guinea, Daniel Nelson in China, J. M. T. Winther in Japan, Niels Bronnum in Nigeria, A.E. Gunderson in Cameroun, Olger Quanrud in Colombia, Marjorie Bly in Taiwan, Herbert G. Schaefer in Ethiopia, O. Kenneth Stenberg in Prazil, Lars Skrefsrud in India.

Location: Luther Seminary

Music from the 1998 Global Mission Events of the Evangelical Lutheran Church in America.

Yearbook published by the Suomi Synod and later continued by Finnish Special Interest Conference (Suomi Vapaa Konferenssi); variety of articles pertaining to mission work of the Suomi Synod. Individual years may have articles written in Finnish and/or English.
Location: Finnish American Historical Archives, Finlandia University and ELCA Archives, Chicago

Contains thirty essays dealing with mission work across the globe.

Bicentenial memorial of Danish-Halle missionaries, Ziegenbalg and Pluetschau. Includes Lutheran mission from Europe and America. Survey of modern mission fields India, Africa, Madagascar, China, Japan, Oceanica, America.

Brief sketches of mission work in South Africa, Madagascar, Cameroon, Nigeria, Ethiopia, India, New Guinea, Hong Kong, Taiwan, Japan, Brazil, and Colombia.

Summaries of history and present mission work in China, Madagascar, South Africa (Natal, Zululand) and Latin America (general introduction; prior to NLCA involvement). Large pages, numerous photographs, lists of missionaries.
Location: Luther Seminary

Stories from South Africa, China, Colombia, Madagascar, for education and inspiration.
Location: Archives, St. Paul - uncatalogued item

Programs on India, Colombia, Sudan, Japan, Utah Mission, Jewish Mission.
Location: no information available

Reports, addresses, sermons presented at the conference. Includes reports from the churches of The French Camerouns, Ethiopia-Eritrea, Liberia, Madagascar, Nigeria, Rhodesia, Union of South Africa, Southwest Africa, and Tanganyika.

Section on "Our Foreign Missions" pp 9-54, description of work in India and China.

Mission projects given financial support: Europe (orphanages); Japan, India, Philippines, Argentina, Brazil, Guatemala, Chile, Cuba, Nigeria, Taiwan, Ghana, New Guinea, Ceylon, Korea.

Four stories present the work of Lutheran Bible Translators in translating Bibles into other languages worldwide.

Photographs of all missionaries.

Twelve videocassettes with varying running times. Series describes work of the Lutheran Bible Translators developing writing systems for unwritten languages and developing literacy programs, as well as encouraging the use of Scripture in every day life.

Focuses on Lutheran missions in Tanzania and Kenya.

Survey of outreach work of the Norwegian Lutheran Church of America, including foreign missions in South Africa, Madagascar, and China.
Location: Luther Seminary

Schiotz served as Executive Director of CYCOM, the Commission on Younger Churches and Orphaned Missions. Helped orphaned missions in Tanzania, Ethiopia, China, and New Guinea. Later worked with Lutheran World Federation.

India, Japan, Southeast Asia (Hong Kong, Taiwan, Malaya, North Borneo), Liberia, Tanganyika, South America (British Guiana, Uruguay, Chile), North America.

Published on Quadricentennial of the Reformation by Societies representing the General Synod, the General Council, and the United Synod in the South. Lutheran missions in India, Africa, China, Japan, and the Western Continent.

Includes "Constitution of the Foreign Missionary Society of the Evangelical Lutheran Church in the United States, as amended 1843."

Information pertaining to the Arusha region of Tanzania and the Meru district of Kenya.

The author was a staff member of Partners in Mission, affiliated with the Association of Evangelical Lutheran Churches, one of the ELCA’s predecessors. He had previously been a Japan missionary and mission executive for the Lutheran Church-Missouri Synod. His stories and memoirs encompass all of those experiences.

History of Augustana missions in Puerto Rico, India, China, Hong Kong, North Borneo, Taiwan, Africa, Japan, Latin America. Bibliography.

India: August B. Carlson and others. China: August W. Edwins and others. Africa: Ralph D. Hult and others.

An account of an extended trip by air and ship to numerous destinations in Latin America, written by the president of the Board of Foreign Missions of the United Lutheran Church.

Profiles mission work in Kenya and Tanzania.

History and celebration of fifty years of Woman’s Missionary Society of Augustana Synod Chapter on Foreign Missions, pp. 70 - 105. Mission fields in India (Telugus, S. India); China (Honan Province); Africa (Tanganyika Territory); Puerto Rico.

Biographies of Bartholomew Ziegenbalg, Christian Frederick Schwartz, John Christian, Frederick Heyer, Morris Officer, John Henry Harpster, Adam D. Rowe, David A. Day, and Samuel Christian Kinsinger. Editor was General Secretary of the Board of Foreign Missions, Evangelical Lutheran Church (General Synod).

Includes summaries of work in China, South Africa, and Madagascar, and roster of missionaries.
Location: Luther Seminary

Work of United Lutheran Church, Latin American Lutheran Mission, World Mission Prayer League, Evangelical Lutheran Church and United Evangelical Lutheran Church. Bibliography.

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