Guide to the Executive and Field Service Commission Records
Open for research.
The Executive and Field Service Commission was established in 1956 by the Board of Christian Education, the Board of National Missions, the Commission on Ecumenical Mission and Relations, and the Department of Stewardship and Promotion of the General Council, acting jointly. The purpose of the Commission was to provide an agency for a unified plan of executive and field services to serve the synods and presbyteries, forwarding the interests of the whole Church program in judicatories, coordinate the activities of field service personnel representing particular interests, and to relate those serving the various judicatories in administering the work of the Church. In 1972, the Commission was disbanded and reformed into the Council on Administrative Services.
Record Group 397 consists of the financial records, minutes and correspondence of the executive Field Service Commission. The years are not complete or sequential.
SERIES 1: MINUTES, 1958-1971
SERIES 2: CORRESPONDENCE AND REPORTS, 1956-1972
SERIES 3: FINANCIAL RECORDS, 1956-1963
SERIES 4: MISCELLANEOUS, 1959-1971
Collection processed and Finding Aid prepared: September 1995
Kerry Jean Norce, Co-ordinator for Governing Body Services
| Box | Folder | Description | |
| 1 | 1 | Finding Aid to Record Group 397 | |
| SERIES 1: MINUTES, 1958-1971 | |||
| 1 | 2 | Minutes, 1958, 1960, 1963 | |
| 1 | 3 | Minutes, 1970 | |
| 1 | 4 | Minutes, 1971 | |
| SERIES 2: CORRESPONDENCE AND REPORTS, 1956-1972 | |||
| 1 | 5 | Correspondence, 1956-57, 1960-61 | |
| 1 | 6 | Correspondence, 1962-63, 1972 | |
| 1 | 7 | Reports, 1962 | |
| 1 | 8 | Manual for Field Unit Executives | |
| SERIES 3: FINANCIAL RECORDS, 1956-1963 | |||
| 1 | 9 | Financial Statements, 1956-1962 | |
| 1 | 10 | Balance Sheets, 1958-1963 | |
| 1 | 11 | Budget, 1958 | |
| 1 | 12 | Budget, 1959 | |
| 1 | 13 | Budget, 1960 | |
| 1 | 14 | Budget, 1961 | |
| 2 | 1 | Budget, 1962 | |
| 2 | 2 | Budget, 1963 | |
| SERIES 4: MISCELLANEOUS, 1959-1971 | |||
| 2 | 3 | Convocation of Executives, 1962 | |
| 2 | 4 | Convocation of Executives, 1971 | |
| 2 | 5 | Papers presented at Convocation of Executives, 1960 | |
| 2 | 6 | Papers presented at Convocation of Executives, 1961 | |
| 2 | 7 | Orientation of Field Executives, 1959 |