北美路加传道会(LCMM)最早是由一群对医疗传道有负担的医护人员在六十年代 ，从芝加哥中国城的一间教会地下室的义诊开始。当时的负责人吴超厚医师及其它几位医师们，不但提供免费的医疗服务，同时也带领多人信主，并将其介绍至各教会。

七 十年代，当芬兰差会欲将当时的二间基督教医院-屏东和恒春-交出经营权时，吴超厚医师及在台湾的数码医师们，忠心的向神回应，正式成立路加传道会。吴医师 及多位热心的基督徒医疗人员，并陆续回台湾支持当时人力短缺的屏东和恒春基督教医院。一九九八年，吴超厚医师向当时仍在南加州福乐神学院进修的李荣礼医师 提出要求，希望能将传福音的棒子交给年轻的一代，继续鼓励更多的基督徒医护人员能将自己献在主前，为主使用。北美路加传道会于是在大洛杉矶地区正式成立。

LCMM, Luke Christian Medical Mission, was originally founded by a group of Christians who had a burden for medical missions. In the 60¡¦s, Dr. Stewart Wu and his associates in the medical field started a free clinic in a church basement in the Chinatown in Chicago.

Through medical care, they were able to share God's love and gospel and brought many to church and Christ. In the 70¡¦s, when Finnish mission board decided to relinquish ownership of two Taiwanese hospitals, Ping-Tung and Heng-Chun, to the native Christians, Dr. Wu and others in Taiwan faithfully responded. Thus, the organization known in Chinese as the Luke Medical Fellowship was formed. In English, the organization became Luke Christian Medical Mission. Dr. Wu in 1988 proposed to Dr. David Lee, a dentist who was in Fuller Theological Seminary, studying to be a full time missionary, to take up the challenge and establish a chapter of LCMM in the States, and to continue spreading the vision of medical mission in North America.