ArchivesSpace Public Interface

Scope and Contents Records consist of documents produced and received by the offices of the Board for Home Missions. Correspondence and reports to and from various administrative bodies, District Mission Boards, congregations, missions and individuals make up the bulk of the collection. Due to the fact that the Board for Home Missions and the Board for World Missions (BWM) were under joint administration until 1957, the majority of BWM documents are housed in a separate collection.

Scope and Contents The records consist of documents pertaining to committees on which Pastor Rolfe Westendorf participated, including the Inner-City Mission Committee (ICMC), the Multi-Cultural Mission Committee (MC2), and the Urban Mission Committee (UMC). Including are agendas and minutes from committee meetings, planning documents for mission seminars, personal letters written by Pastor Westendorf, essays on inner-city outreach, demographics of Milwaukee and the neighborhoods surrounding WELS churches, and...