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Collection Overview
Title: Luke Society Collection, 1940-2002
ID: COLL/427
Extent: 4.0 Boxes
Arrangement: Folder level description
Abstract
Luke Society is an organization of Christian Reformed physicians and dentists promoting missionary medicine. The collection includes articles of incorporation; by-laws; reports; minutes; correspondence; clippings; brochures; papers; periodicals [sporadic, available online]; and materials on various projects, i.e., Rehoboth, Mississippi Evangelistic Medicine, Ecuador, and Nigeria medical missions. [See also the Campus Titles Database.]
Collection Historical Note
The Luke Society was established in 1964 by a group of Christian Reformed physicians and dentists. Their original mission was to save the Rehoboth Mission Hospital in Gallup, New Mexico. With the help of these doctors, they were able to build a new hospital and providing community outreach. By 1978, groundwork for the Luke Society to expand internationally takes place. In 1981, the first international ministries are formed in the Philippines. They expanded their outreach and in 1990 they hosted their first international conference, soon followed a much larger role in international ministry in Asia, Latin America, Africa and Eastern Europe. In 1999, Luke Society relocated their central office to Sioux Falls, South Dakota. In 2014, Luke Society celebrated its 50th anniversary and now supports 42 active ministry partners.
Box and Folder Listing
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- Series 1
- Box 1
- Folder 1: Articles of Incorporation, By-laws --- 1965-1971
- Folder 2: Reports to Synod --- 1969-1975
- Folder 3: Minutes and Agenda --- 1967-1973
- Folder 4: Minutes and Agenda --- 1974-1976
- Folder 5: Correspondence --- 1970-1974
- Folder 6: Correspondence --- 1975-1976, 2002
- Folder 7: Memos to board members, office correspondence --- 1973-1976
- Folder 8: Finances --- 1969-1976
- Folder 9: Personnel policies and employees --- 1973
- Folder 10: Ballots --- 1972-1974
- Folder 11: Members --- 1965-1974
- Box Vault
- Item 1: Minutes --- 6/4/1964-9/26/1968
- (1 microfilm reel)
- Box 2
- Folder 1: Legal correspondence and materials concerning restrictive clause --- 1974-1975
- Folder 2: Medical Missionary Scholarships and Travel Funds --- 1975-1976
- Folder 3: Acts of Synod re: Rehoboth --- 1940-1963
- Folder 4: Rehoboth Articles of Incorporation and By-laws; deed --- 1968-1974
- Folder 5: Rehoboth Board of Governors minutes; committee minutes and reports --- 1974-1975
- Folder 6: Rehoboth Board of Governors minutes; committee minutes and reports --- 1974-1976
- Folder 7: Rehoboth correspondence --- 1970-1975
- Folder 8: Rehoboth dedication --- 1970
- Folder 9: Rehoboth finances --- 1973-1975
- Folder 10: Rehoboth Annual Report --- 1966, 1967, 1974, 1975, 1976
- Folder 11: Hospital regulations --- 1966, 1974
- Folder 12: Rehoboth auxiliary --- 1975
- Box 3
- Folder 1: Rehoboth skit --- [undated]
- Folder 2: Rehoboth brochures --- 1968-1974, [undated]
- Folder 3
- Item 1: Rehoboth clippings --- 1911-1976
- Item 2: Luke Society brochure re: Rehoboth Hospital --- 1970
- Folder 4: Rehoboth clippings and newsletter, The Pulse --- 1967
- Folder 5: Mississippi Evangelistic Medicine Organization and Accounting Procedures --- 1973, [undated]
- Folder 6: Board of Governors and staff materials --- 1973-1974
- Folder 7: Cary Christian Center information and by-laws --- 1970-1974
- Folder 8: Mississippi Retreat --- 1974
- Folder 9: Mississippi Evangelistic Medicine Progress Reports --- 1973-1975
- Folder 10: Mississippi Evangelistic Medicine correspondence --- 1974, 1976
- Folder 11: Mississippi Evangelistic Medicine budgets --- 1976
- Folder 12: Mississippi Evangelistic Medicine summer programs --- 1974, [undated]
- Folder 13: Mississippi Evangelistic Medicine clippings and brochures --- 1974-1976, [undated]
- Folder 14: Mississippi Evangelistic Medicine Newsletters --- 1972-1975, [undated]
- Folder 15: Dental --- 1975-1976
- Folder 16: Nigeria --- 1975
- Folder 17: Luke Society brochures --- 1970-1974, [undated]
- Folder 18: Luke Society promotions --- 1973-1975
- Folder 19: Organ Transplantation and Christian Thinking --- [undated]
- Folder 20: Newsletter, Contact, miscellaneous issues --- 1965-1999
- Folder 21-22: Luke Society News Oct. 1978-vol. 20. No. 2 (Fall 1998)
- [newsletter available on their website: < http://www.lukesociety.org >]
- Box 4
- Folder 1-4: Luke Society News, vol. 21, no. 1 (Spring 1999)-vol. 31, no. 2 (Fall 2009)
- [newsletter available on their website: < http://www.lukesociety.org >]
- Folder 5: Ecuador: Phil and Karen VanDeWege-Westra correspondence and related material --- (1981-1984)
- Folder 6: Luke Society News, vol. 37, no. 2 --- (Summer 2014)-[ongoing] (sporadic)
- Folder 7: History of Luke Society --- (1964-1970)
- Folder 8-9: Board of Directors' Minutes --- (1964-1966)
- Folder 10: Hospital Administrator's Report --- (Dec 1969)
- Folder 11: Material Re: Special Meetings --- (May 1965)
- Folder 12-14: Correspondence --- 1964-1966
- Box 5
- Folder 1-5: Correspondence --- 1967-1971
- Folder 6
- Item 1: Christimas letters --- 1979-1990
- Item 2: Touching Lives --- Fall 1991 - Christmas 1998
- Folder 7
- Item 1: People Touching People --- Mar 1983-Dec 1990
- Item 2: People Touching People used as Banner inserts --- Mar 1991-Dec 1998
- Folder 8: Promotional materials
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