Archive Record
Metadata
Title |
Ascension Lutheran Church, San Antonio, TX |
Collection |
Ascension Lutheran Church, San Antonio, TX Collection |
Catalog Number |
2014.4.1 |
Object Name |
File, Document |
Location |
SBox 57,58,Cab.C. |
Date |
1946-1988 |
Scope & Content |
Contains yearbooks/reports, newsletters, photograph albums, scrapbooks, Woman's Missionary Society, Lutheran Church Women, correspondence, church building drawings, Altar Guild, sports and comfirnation photographs, pastors photographs and resumes, WMS photo ablums, and correspondence between 1946 until 1988. This was Ascension Augustana Lutheran Church, then Lutheran Church in America, then part of the ELCA in 1987 and finally merged with House of Prayer Lutheran Church, San Antonio, TX, in November 1989. See Finding Aids for more details. |
Finding Aids |
Cabinet C: Oversize Scrapbook of the Ascension Guild Business Women's Division of the Women's Missionary Society Organized April 1954. SBox 57 Folder 1: Forming New Church 1945 - Correspondence, Map of San Antonio ca 1945, Foreign Mission Table ca 1945. Folder 2: Correspondence: Beginning a Mission Congregation 1946. Folder 3: Correspondence: Pastors Annual Reports and correspondence 1946-1950; Confirmation 1948-1950; Mortgage; financial reports 1946-1950. Article on Foley Bros. 1947; Article on Cullen Foundation ca 1947; Folder 4: Ledger with Women's Missionary Society Minutes 1949-1952 Folder 5: Women's Missionary Society Scrapbook 1947-1956. Folder 6: Let's Have a Visit Luncheon July 8, 1990. Folder 7: Ascension Guild Minutes March 26, 1954 - October 4, 1956 in ledger; November 1956 - December 1958 typed. Folder 8: Ascension Lutheran Women's Missionary Society Minutes April 17, 1947 - October 11, 1956. Folder 9: Augustana Lutheran Church Women of Ascension Evangelical Lutheran Church Minutes December 11, 1958-1960. Folder 10: Jr. Missionary Society - organized June 8, 1950 - History. Folder 11: Ledger with Luther League Minutes November 3, 1946 - December 9, 1951; League Activities 1946-1969. Folder 12: Membership Lists 1946 - 1967. Folder 13: Ledger with Board of Trustees Minutes August 11, 1947 - December 13, 1947. Folder 14: Ledger with Minutes of the Secretary of Board of Administration September 29, 1946 - January 1949. Folder 15: Sunday School Correspondence April 10, 1947 - September 4, 1948. Folder 16: List of Confirmation Classes 1947-1966; Family Fellowship 1957; Men's Club 1951, 1952, 1953, 1958, 1961. Folder 17: History, Anniversaries, List of Pastors, Symbols of Apostles.. Folder 18: Financial Papers 1948; Petition for Tax Exemption 1946. Folder 19: Miscellaneous - Congregational Meeting Minutes and Reports January 13, 1963; Song sheet. Folder 20: Pastors' Resume's Folder 21: Pastor Leslie Carlson and Pastor Leaf Reports 1951-1966. Folder 22: 40th Anniversary. 1986. Folder 23: Ascension Lutheran Church Women Directories 1969, 1970, 1972, 1974-1979, 1981, 1983, 1985. Folder 24: The Choir -- A play by Ramsey Yelvington. Folder 25: TELL-U-SCOPE June 1, 1947 thru June 8, 1948. Folder 26: The Ascension Voice April 1951 thru 1959 Folder 27: The Ascension Voice 1960 thru 1969. Folder 28: The Ascension Voice 1970 thru 1979. SBox 58 Folder 29: Annual Reports for 1946-1956. Folder 30: Annual Reports for 1957-1967. Folder 31: Annual Reports for 1970-1979. Folder 32: Annual Reports for 1980, 1982-1985, 1987-1988. Folder 33: Ascension 1946-1986 Scrapbook of 40th Anniversary History. Folder 34: Drawings of Parsonage; Specifications of Church Building. Folder 35: Photographs of Church and Addition. Folder 36: Photographs of Sports Folder 37: Photographs of Confirmation. Folder 38: Photographs of Pastors with Name Plaques. Folder 39: Lutheran Women's Photo Album 1949-1986. Folder 40: Lutheran Women's Photo Album #2 1980-1986?. Oversize ledger: Organizational meetings of congregation and congregational minutes from September 3, 1946 thru September 24, 1963. See Also SBox 45 Folder 1: Southwestern Texas (ELCA) Synod file contains correspondence from 1968 to 1986, congregational reports dated 1987-89, and letter to the office of the secretary of the ELCA advising of the merging of Ascension Lutheran Church into House of Prayer Lutheran, San Antonio, TX, as of November 19, 1989. |
Notes |
This congregation continued after 1988 and merged with House of Prayer Lutheran Church, San Antonio, TX, in Nov. 1990. |
Language of Material |
English |
Subjects |
Ascension Lutheran Church--San Antonio, TX--History Ascension Augustana Lutheran Church--San Antonio, TX--History Southwestern Texas (ELCA) Synod--History |
Classification |
Church Records Augustana Lutheran Church |
Search Terms |
Ascension Lutheran Church, San Antonio, Texas Church Records Southwestern Texas (ELCA) Synod--History |
People |
Berglund, Oliver Martin Bergman, Gustav Bersell, P.O. Breitkrautz, Vernon Edgar Carlson, Leslie A. F. Dallmann, Johannes Siegmund Hawkins, Eric Nels Leaf, Philip A. Linke, Robert Petersen, William S. |
Relation |
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