The material in this series comes from the General Welfare Division of the General Board of Church and Society. The series contains administrative records, newsletters and scrapbooks from the Geneal Board of Temperance, the predecessor to the General Welfare Division. There are also records pertaining to the Department of of Alcohol Problems and Drug Abuse, the Depart of Population Problems, and the Department of Law, Justice and Community Relations. Each of these departments had wide-ranging portfolios and were active in a variety of issues. Some of the issues relate to United Methodism's historic stance on drug and alcohol abuse, as well as issues surrounding population and hunger in the 1970s and the division's involvement in Kent State slayings legal defense, Wounded Knee and other societal issues of the 1960s and 1970s.
United Methodist Church (U.S.). General Board of Church and SocietyConsists primarily of minutes; committee files, and correspondence relating to the work of this commission during the 1964-1968 study on the structure of the denomination overseas.
Methodist Church (U.S.). Commission on Structure of Methodism OverseasContains material relating to the plan of union of the Evangelcal United Brethren and The Methodist churches; committee reports, drafts, plans of church union, newsletters.
Methodist Church (U.S.). Joint Commission on Church UnionThese series contains minutes of the meetings, correspondence, resolutions, research projects.
Methodist Church (U.S.). Commission on Interjurisdictional RelationsThis series contains mostly financial files generated by the Methodist Episcopal Church, South. There are also some files from the Methodist Episcopal Church and the Methodist Protestant Church. After merger in 1939 corporations created by the three former denominations were often kept by the Methodist Church rather than going through the legal requirements of re-definition. That is why there were financial files relating to the three denominations still in existence after 1940. These files deal primarily with issues of finance. Topics such as bank, property, insurance, litigation, foreign properties and annuities are covered in this series.
Methodist Episcopal Church, South. Board of Missions