BIOLAMS SERVE
CHRIST OVERSEAS
b y Bom W . m i l l s BIOLA’s long and faithful record o f preparing young people for overseas missionary service is reflected in the pictures o f the men and women on this page. These are but a few of the more than eighty BIOLA alumni serving in The Evangelical Alliance Mission. They are scattered from France to Japan and from South Africa to Pakistan. The sun never sets on these and the several hundred other BIOLANS serving God on foreign fields. TEAM’S esteemed General Director, Dr. Vernon Mortenson, is an honorary alum nus o f Talbot Seminary, having received his Doctor o f Divinity degree in 1964. Dr. Mabel Culter, former BIOLA dean of women, has served with The Evangelical Alli ance Mission in Korea, where she founded the “ Mountain of Blessing” orphanage. Four teen other BIOLANS are carrying on evangelistic, church planting, and youth camp minis tries with TEAM in that land. Mr. and Mrs. Ken Henry have been laboring in Japan since 1951. Much o f Ken’s ministry has been in the field o f literature. He has served in the Mission’s publishing and corresponding school ministries. He has made effective use o f Christian newspaper ads. Ten other BIOLANS are serving with the Henry’s in TEAM’S Japan field. The Emerson Froeses went to Rhodesia in 1961. As a trained pharmacist, Dr. Froese has given much time to the work of the Gundersen-Homess Mission Hospital, located at Karanda, Rhodesia. Clinic administration and building construction have consumed some o f Emerson’s time. As a trained nurse, Mrs. Froese has served in places of real leadership among the nurses at the hos pital. The Froeses have a Gospel outreach through child evangelism classes, Bible classes for the nurses and local workmen, teaching the annual short-term Bible course for laymen and evange lists, and assisting in the work o f a nearby village church. The labor and zeal o f this busy couple are characteristic o f the seven BIOLANS associated with them in TEAM’Sministry in Rhodesia. Mr. and Mrs. David Crane are missionaries in Trinidad. Dave is known to his BIOLA friends as the engineer who built Radio Station KBBI. In Trinidad, Mr. and Mrs. Crane established the Caribbean Broadcasting Company. Their hope was to obtain a broadcasting license for the building o f a radio station on the island. In 1964, they amalgamated with The Evan gelical Alliance Mission and today an effective church planting and Christian camp ministry are being carried on among the one million inhabitants of Trinidad and To bago by the Cranes and their ten co-workers. The name, Pietsch, was a familiar one on the BIOLA campus a few years ago. Five members of the Paul Pietsch family attended the school. Three of them are now working with The Evangelical Alliance Mission in widely-scattered
fields. Mr. and Mrs. Jim Pietsch are in Aruba, where Jim is the manager of TEAM’S 10,000-watt Radio Victoria. A younger brother, Bill, and his family are missionaries in Pakistan. Bill has served with distinc tion as the field council chairman in that country. Three other BIOLA alumni are on TEAM’S Pakistan missionary list. Jim and Bill have a sister, Barbara (Mrs. James Cornel- son) serving in Korea. Though now in a church planting ministry on Korea’s east coast, the Comelson’s have ministered in the Mountain of Blessing
The author of this article is the Associate Director of The Evangelical Alliance Mission, and a BIOLA grad of the class of 1932.
JUNE, 1969
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