PITTS THEOLOGY LIBRARY
ARCHIVES AND MANUSCRIPTS DEPT.

UNITED METHODIST CHURCH (U.S.) NORTH GEORGIA CONFERENCE. 
Board and agency records, 1830-1983.

RECORD GROUP NUMBER 025-2

EXTENT: Cubic ft.: 6 cubic ft. (7 legal-size archives boxes, and 2 flat oversize boxes)

ACCESS: Unrestricted

REPRODUCTION: All requests subject to limitations noted in departmental policies on reproduction.

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CITATION: United Methodist Church (U.S) North Georgia Conference Boards and agencies, RG 025-2, Archives and Manuscripts Dept., Pitts Theology Library, Emory University.


Scope and Content

This collection contains the records of several boards and agencies of the North Georgia Conference of the United Methodist Church, as well as the preceding denominations, the Methodist Episcopal Church (M.E.C.), the Methodist Episcopal Church, South (M.E.C., S.), and the Methodist Church.  In each case the organization existed for the purpose of overseeing specific areas of work for the entire conference.  Activities prominently featured in this collection include benevolent aid, community outreach, and missionary work.

Several agencies assisted pastors and their families in time of need.  Most notable within the collection are the Bishop’s Fund, the Fund of Special Relief, and the Preacher’s Aid Society, whose activities are recorded for the years 1830 to 1943 through their financial and administrative records.  Among the various outreach programs, the Sunday School Society contains the most material.  The societies’ work for the period 1852 to 1930 is established in a variety of records.  Considerably less material is available for the Council on Ministries and Asbury Hills Home for the Aged, Inc., the majority of which is financial, and ranges from 1968 to 1979.  Missionary work for the period 1830 to 1951 is well documented within the collection, with the exception of a gap from 1866 to 1889.  This may be due to chaos following the Civil War or that these records did not survive.  The activities of women within the conference are known through the records of the Woman’s Foreign Missionary Society and the Woman’s Missionary Society for the period 1878 to 1931 and 1937.  Additional subjects of interest in the series include the United Methodist Children’s Home, conference legal transactions from 1841 to 1908, the merger with the Central Jurisdictional Conference, temperance activities for the years 1964 to 1965, and politics and current events in the Atlanta area from 1898 to 1904.

This series is arranged alphabetically by name of organization, then alphabetically by type of material and, thereunder, chronologically.


CONTAINER LISTING
MICRO
FILM   BOX  FOLDER   DESCRIPTION                            DATE
                     Atlanta Area Reconciliation Committee
       6    6          Audit reports                                       1971, 1973
       9    3          Budget ledger [bound and oversized]                 1969-1973
       6    7          Miscellaneous                                       1973-1974

                     Bishop’s Fund   
2      1    1          Financial records                                   1865-1892
        
                     Board of Finance
       1    2          Financial records                                   1849-1857
2      1    3          Financial records                                   1858-1881
       1    4          Financial records                                   1882-1895

                     Board of Health and Welfare Ministries
                       Asbury Hills Home for the Aged, Inc.
       9    4            Accounts ledger [bound and oversized]   1968-1972
6    8            Audit report                                     1971-1972
       6    9            Board of Trustees Meeting material                1969

                     Board of Ministerial Training
       6    10         Diplomas                                            1942, 1946

                     Board of Missions
       6    11         Financial reports                                   1889-1891
       1    5          Record book, V.2                                    1897-1912

                Board of Missions and Church Extension
6    12         Correspondence                                      1939-1948
       6    13         Correspondence                                      1949
       6    14         Correspondence                                      1950-1951
       7    1          Executive Committee minutes                         1940-1944
       7    2          Executive Committee minutes                         1945-1948

Centenary Committee     
       5    2          Pledge list [bound and oversized]                   1841-1842
       7    3          Pledge records                                      1840-1854
       9    1          Report [oversized]                                  n.d.

Commission on Religion and Race
       7    4          Material on merger with Central Jurisdiction        1973-1974
 
Commission on World Service and Finance
       7    5          Audit reports                                       1969-1970
       7    6          Audit reports                                       1970-1973

                     Commission on Worship
       7    7          Calendar and lectionary                             1965-1966

                     Committee on Ecumenical Affairs
       7    8          Correspondence and reports                  1967

                     Committee on Outdoor Ministries
       9    2          Evaluation study [oversized]                        ca. 1978

                     Council on Ministries
       7    9          Budget material                                     1974-1978
       7    10         Executive Committee meeting material                1976
       7    11         Executive Committee meeting material                1977
       7    12         Executive Committee meeting material                1978-1979
       7    13         Staff quarterly reports                             1975-1976

                     Fund of Special Relief
8      2    1          Record book                                  1830-1934

                     Georgia Commission on Higher Education
       8    1          Supplementary report                                1960
                       Wesley Foundation
       8    2            Georgia College - “Wesley Notes”                  1978
       8    3            University of Georgia - Miscellaneous             1950-1977
       8 4 Valdosta State College - Dedication service
program          1973

                     Georgia Temperance League
       8    5          Report to district conferences                      1964-1965

                     Legal Conference                        
       2    2          Records book                                        1841-1908

                     Missionary Society
8      2    3          Minutes                                             1830-1836
8      2    4          Minutes                                             1830-1866
8      2    5          Treasurer’s book                                    1831-1835
8      3    1          Treasurer’s book                                    1840-1850
       6    1          Treasurer’s report                                  1860

                     Preacher’s Aid Society
       6    2          Correspondence and minutes                  1921-1943
       3    2          Record book                                 1838-1943

                     Preacher’s Meeting
                       Atlanta
       6    5          Minutes [bound]                         1898-1900
                       Elberton district [also Preacher’s
Institute, Missionary Institute]
       8    6          Minutes [bound]                         1900-1904
                                        
                     Standing Rules Committee
       8    7          Report                                              1965

                     Study Committee on District Lines
       8    8          Miscellaneous                                       1976-1977
                                               
                     Sunday School Board
2      3    3        Minutes                                             1852-1866
       8    9        Minutes [bound]                                     1897-1929
       8    10         Loose material                                   1912-1930
       6    3        Miscellaneous                                       1854-1857
2      3    4        Treasurer’s book                                    1833-1853

                     United Methodist Children’s Home
       6    4          Miscellaneous                                       1952-1983

                     Urban Action, Inc.
       8    11         Annual report                                       1975
       8    12         Grant proposal outlines and funding applications    1976-1978

                     Woman’s Foreign Missionary Society
10     4    1          Minutes                                             1878-1884
11     4    2          Minutes                                             1884-1898

                     Woman’s Missionary Society
       4    3          Executive meeting                                   1937
10     4    4          Minutes                                             1885-1900
       4    7          Miscellaneous                                       1892-1931
       4    5          Pledge list                                         1919
10     4    6          Treasurer’s book                                    1878-1886

Last Modified: 11/23/2004