Evangelical Lutheran Synod of Iowa and Other States. Mission Auxiliary.

See also IOWA 28 Administrative History.

Die Missions Stunde began as a publication devoted to sharing news of foreign mission work and was published by the North Dakota Conference of the Dakota District, Evangelical Lutheran Synod of Iowa and Other States (Iowa Synod). It was a German-language publication published monthly in Waverly, Iowa, with its first issue appearing in January 1913. With the June 1914 issue, responsibility for the magazine's publishing transferred from the North Dakota Conference to selected pastors of the Iowa Synod. This remained the arrangement until the September 1916 issue when responsibility for the magazine was transferred to the newly-created Mission Auxiliary. In 1920 the Mission Auxiliary began publishing the magazine in conjunction with the Iowa Synod's Board of Foreign Missions. The Mission Auxiliary moved the publishing of the magazine to Wartburg Publishing House, 2048 Calumet Avenue, Chicago, Illinois, in 1922.

Each issue would publish news of foreign mission fields and missionaries connected with the Iowa Synod. It also publicized the need for congregational support for mission work. In 1928 the publication added Iowa Synod home mission news and the Board of Home Missions joined in publishing the magazine. Editors of the magazine included the Rev. Martin Weideraenders, 1913-1915; the Rev. G. Wilhelm Kraushaar, 1915-1916; the Rev. Curt Taubert, 1916-1924; and Professor J. Becker, 1924-1930. Professor Becker continued in the same capacity when the magazine was published by the American Lutheran Church after 1930. In 1928, the Rev. Karl Ermisch became an assistant editor in charge of content related to home mission work. He remained in the position until 1930. The magazine continued to be published after the creation of the American Lutheran Church in 1930.