Lutheran Hour Ministries - The Lutheran Hour

History of 'The Lutheran Hour'

On October 2, 1930, the first broadcast of The Lutheran Hour® radio program was aired, with Dr. Walter A. Maier as speaker. The Lutheran Laymen's League, which had formed thirteen years earlier as a financial support organization for the Lutheran Church—Missouri Synod, had a vision of spreading the Gospel message using the young technology of broadcast radio. For more than 80 years, the call of Christ has been carried around the world by radio waves to share the Good News.

Listed below are links to biographies of the men who served as speakers of this radio ministry.

Dr. Walter A. Maier Speaker from 1930-1950 Listen to Sermons from Dr. Maier	Dr. Lawrence Acker Speaker from 1950-1951 Listen to Sermons from Dr. Acker
Dr. Oswald C. J. Hoffmann Speaker from 1955-1988 Listen to Sermons from Dr. Hoffmann	Reverend Wallace Schulz Associate Speaker from 1977-2002 Listen to Sermons from Rev. Schulz
Dr. Andrew Melendez Spanish Lutheran Hour Speaker from 1941-1972	Dr. Dale A. Meyer Speaker from 1989-2001 Listen to Sermons from Dr. Meyer
Dr. Armin C. Oldsen Speaker from 1951-1953 Listen to Sermons from Dr. Oldsen	Reverend Ken Klaus Speaker from 2002-2010
Rev. Greg Seltz Speaker from 2011-present

Historic Broadcasts:

(The following programs are currently only available in MP3 format.)

"The Man of Sorrows" - April, 1999
Columbine High School
(Dr. Dale Meyer)