I was looking for some mid-century orders of service — more about that later — and found a trove of orders of service at the Internet Archive from Protestant union churches at some of the internment or concentration camps for Japanese Americans during the Second World War.
Such a terrible time in the nation’s history and a great hardship to those caught up in that dislocation, presumption of guilt, loss of civil rights and economic hardship. And then there are these documents, which in many ways are very ordinary and typical of the period. Did they have a role past the outline of the service or sharing church news? To maintain normalcy, project it, something else? I’ll leave it to those who have experience in the material to say. But they’re a worth a look, especially in the notices which describe the prisoners comings and goings — and their faith and values.
Link (Internet Archive)