Augustana Evangelical Lutheran Church. Board of World Missions.

See also AUG 24/2/1 Background.

As part of the Augustana Foreign Missionary Society, later known as the Augustana Association for Christian Missions, mission to create an interest in foreign mission work, it published The Missionary Calendar. Its first issue appeared in 1921 and according to the society's president G. Fred Andree, the reason for publishing a calendar was the need for such a publication for young people, and that the publication carried the message that the Gospel was the power of God to lead those who believed to salvation. This type of calendar was an annual publication, similar to an almanac that provided information pertaining to mission work, home and foreign. Each volume had poems, articles, photographs, maps, charts, reports of foreign mission work of various North American Lutheran Church bodies, including the Augustana Synod. The education committee of the Augustana Foreign Missionary Society edited its annual volumes and the Augustan Book Concern, Rock Island, Illinois, published the volumes.

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