LCMS. Emergency Planning Council

The collection consists of minutes of the council’s Executive Committee, Committee at Large and special meetings with various entities of the synod for special projects. The minutes of the NAEPC have been gathered from the original NAEPC records and from the Lawrence B. Meyer Collection. All minutes are filed together chronologically, whether they are for the Executive Committee or the council at large. Page numbers printed on the minutes indicate that they were regarded as one series, regardless of the terminology used for the group that met on a given occasion.

The remaining records in the collection are filed alphabetically by subject. Files on Displaced Persons consist mostly of correspondence relating to the coordination of the work of resettling refugees from Europe in the U.S. between 1947 and 1952. Additional resources on the Bad Boll theological conferences are found in other collections at Concordia Historical Institute, including the records of President John W. Behnken and the papers of Lawrence Meyer and several other seminary faculty members who participated in the conferences.

In its report to the 1950 Missouri Synod convention, the council reported that there was still significant work to be done among displaced people and refugees in Europe and suggested that the council continue with this work. Other work in Europe would be placed under the jurisdiction of the Board for Missions in Europe, and the theological free conferences would be under the auspices of the president of the synod. The convention approved this recommendation. The name of the Board for Missions in Europe was changed to the Board for European Affairs (Proceedings, 1950, pp. 448–49, 859).

Reports of the NAEPC to LCMS conventions are found in Proceedings, 1944, pp. 371–95; Proceedings, 1947, pp. 647–65; Proceedings

Series 1: Minutes

• 1. Minutes — Index, 1942–1944
• 2. Minutes — Index, 1945–1949
• 3. Minutes, 1942
• 4. Minutes, 1943
• 5. Minutes, 1944
• 6. Minutes, 1945
• 7. Minutes, 1946
• 8. Minutes, 1947
• 9. Minutes, 1948
• 10. Minutes, 1949–1950

Series 2: Subject Files

• 11. Bad Boll, 1949
• 12. Correspondence, 1945–1949
• 13. Demobilization, 1945
• 14. Doerffler, Alfred, File, 1942–1945 [Minutes of the EPC were removed from this folder. The folder does contain minutes of a Saint Louis Pastoral Conference Committee on Defense Workers.]
• 15. European Relief Photographs
• 16. Fact-Finding Commission to Europe, 1945
• 17. Fiscal Conference
• 18. Foreign Correspondence Office, 1947–1948
• 19. Foreign Correspondence Office — Excerpts from Pastors’ Letters, 1947–1948
• 20. Foreign Correspondence Office — Excerpts from Newspaper Articles, 1946–1948
• 21. Hilfswerk (Germany)
• 22. LCMS Convention, 1950
• 23. Letters to Pastors, 1948–1949
• 24. “Lutheranism in England” (Paul M. Bretscher), 1948
• 25. Members
• 26. Mission to Europe, Behnken and Meyer, 1945
• 27. “Our Call to Europe” (L. Meyer)
• 28. “Our Task in the Present Emergency”
• 29. Planning Subcommittee, 1943
• 30. Post-War Planning Committee, 1942–1943
• 31. Post-War Planning Committee, 1944
• 32. Program
• 33. “The Rehabilitation of the Christian Home” (E. J. Friedrich)
• 34. Relief Office
• 35. Relief Packages
• 36. Reports, 1942–1949
• 37. “A Review of Our European Missions,” F. C. Streufert, 1948
• 38. Saint Louis Pastoral Conference Committee on Defense Workers
• 39. Selective Service
• 40. Service Committee, 1944 [a joint committee of members of the Army and Navy Commission and the National Advisory Emergency Planning Council]
• 41. “The Service Man Returns,” 1944
• 42. Staff Meetings, 1947
• 43. Trailer Mission, 1943–1944
• 44. Vacation Bible School in Europe Project
• 45. Visitors’ Seminar on Post War Problems of the Church, 1944
• 46. War-Time Missions and Conservation Program
• 47. Displaced Persons
• 48. Displaced Persons, 1947
• 49. Displaced Persons, 1948
• 50. Displaced Persons, 1949–1952
• “The Relief Program of The Lutheran Church—Missouri Synod” (Hugo Bloedel, Purchasing Agent and Supervisor of Packing and Relief Shipments)