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“THREE SCORE YEARS AND TEN” MISSIONARY WORK IN CHINA
Amy Moore
promise given to rebuild the church. An orphanage and baby unit is being built in Hanzhong and
Dorothy was given a warm invitation to go and help.
So 114 years after George and Jessie Andrew went to work under Hudson Taylor in China, one of his
great granddaughters has been able to go back to the land where she was born to help China’s
babies.
But that is not all. In July 1997 Nicholaa Stephens, Dorothy’s eldest daughter doing pediatrics at
Great Ormond Street, London, was able to do a months work experience at the same orphanage in
Xi’an - the fifth generation of the Andrews family to be in China. In 1998 Frank Moore went back to
China to Hanzhong to teach for two years in the Handa, the Hanzhong Teachers College. On
Sundays he spends his time with the church people, many of whom remember him as a small boy.
And finally in 1998, I went back to Hanzhong for a visit on my way to Australia to celebrate my 90th
birthday. It was an unforgettable visit and in a small way helped to complete the story that was broken
in 1949 when we left China. Unfortunately Percy had died in 1972, so I was cared for on the journey
by my two youngest children. In 1999 Ray took his wife Bev for a visit to China and they were able to
find all the places where he had lived during his early and teenage years.
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Amy Moore
promise given to rebuild the church. An orphanage and baby unit is being built in Hanzhong and
Dorothy was given a warm invitation to go and help.
So 114 years after George and Jessie Andrew went to work under Hudson Taylor in China, one of his
great granddaughters has been able to go back to the land where she was born to help China’s
babies.
But that is not all. In July 1997 Nicholaa Stephens, Dorothy’s eldest daughter doing pediatrics at
Great Ormond Street, London, was able to do a months work experience at the same orphanage in
Xi’an - the fifth generation of the Andrews family to be in China. In 1998 Frank Moore went back to
China to Hanzhong to teach for two years in the Handa, the Hanzhong Teachers College. On
Sundays he spends his time with the church people, many of whom remember him as a small boy.
And finally in 1998, I went back to Hanzhong for a visit on my way to Australia to celebrate my 90th
birthday. It was an unforgettable visit and in a small way helped to complete the story that was broken
in 1949 when we left China. Unfortunately Percy had died in 1972, so I was cared for on the journey
by my two youngest children. In 1999 Ray took his wife Bev for a visit to China and they were able to
find all the places where he had lived during his early and teenage years.
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