Board of Directors of the United Church Board for Homeland Ministries records

The records of the United Church Board for Homeland Ministries and the Congregational independent societies have come to the Amistad Research Center through a number of deposits and have a convoluted Custodial History, as well as, a complex functional structure. The initial deposits for the American Missionary Association established the Amistad Research Center as the repository for these records in February of 1966 with additions in August 1968 and March of 1969. These records were processed from 1966 to 1969.

The American Missionary Association records addendum, was processed in 1991 and consolidated additions that came in 1979 and 1989. The additions were designated as the AMA records; however, in 1927, the AMA became a division of the Board of Home Missions of the Congregational Churches, then continued as a division of the Untied Church Board for Homeland Ministries in 1962. The nature of the processing done for the AMA addendum incorporated the materials for the UCBHM.

The first deposit documented for the United Church Board for Homeland Ministries records constitutes an accession record titled, United Church Board for Homeland Ministries, Division of Health and Welfare records and Christian Education. This deposit came in 1989 and consisted of approximately 20 linear feet of material. This deposit was inventoried in 2003 in preparation of the expected final deposit of the UCBHM records. The inventory shows that these materials include more than records only for the Division of Health and Welfare and Christian Education, but also include records from the Division of Church Extension, the UCBHM Board of Directors, the Division of Evangelism, and the Council on Health and Welfare Services and Indian Ministries, as well as Executive Vice President's files particularly of Howard Spragg.

The bulk of the United Church Board for Homeland Ministries records (1957-2000) were send from the United Church of Christ's archives located in Cleveland, OH in 2003. The last deposit of the UCBHM records came from the Local Church Ministries department of the United Church of Christ's offices in Cleveland, OH in 2008 and encompassed the Clerk of the Board of Directors records for the UCBHM.

There is no evidence of records from the Evangelical and Reformed Church within the records of the UCBHM, except for property records for 1505 Race Street in Philadelpha, PA. The bulk of the records prior to the 1957 merger encompass the materials generated under the Board of Home Missions of the Congregational and Christian Churches.