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Thursday, August 10, 2006
Picture of the Week
Hato Village Children's Orphanage and School
Most United Brethren are familiar with our current work in Hong Kong and Macau but many are not familiar with our extensive work with Chinese children in and around the city of Canton (Guangshou) in the nineteen twenties through nineteen forties. Rev. Moy Ling, the leader of our Portland Chinese Mission in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, had a deep seated desire to spread the gospel among his ethnic brothers and sisters especially in his homeland of China. In China he had a cousin Yan Tze Chiu who was a fellow believer. Through the interaction and efforts of these two men, the United Brethren, especially the Women's Missionary Association, were convinced to help sponser the establishment of an orphanage and school from Chinese children. The program was active for many years and introduced Christ to hundreds of children and their parents. We were finally forced to abandon the program when the communists took over after WWII. The program led to the establishment of the Hong Kong Conference and other work throughout Asia.