The LCHKS grew from the China mission of The Lutheran Church–Missouri Synod (LCMS), which was established in the early 1900s.
The missionaries preached the Gospel along the Yangtze River (Changjiang) in Hupeh and Szechwan.
After the Chinese Communist Revolution, the Chinese Communist Party expelled Christian missionaries after gaining control of Mainland China in 1949, the LCMS missionaries planned to return to the United States.
[citation needed] However, they decided to stay and start evangelical work in Hong Kong when they saw so many Chinese Civil War refugees in Hong Kong.
Currently, the LCHKS is operating schools at kindergarten, primary, secondary levels serving nearly 20,000 students throughout Hong Kong.