Tag: Yangzhou

Turning Weakness Into Strength

Today, I'm thinking about my great grandmother Dagny and her bravery. 131 years have passed since Dagny set out from Norway to start her life as a missionary in China. It must have taken a lot of guts and stubborness for a woman to travel across the vast oceans on such a dangerous and uncertain... Continue Reading →

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Learning Language For The Love of God

Even though the English language is "taking over the world" today, that was certainly not the case back in the 19th Century, when my relatives set out to China. Yes, they had to start by learning English, in order to later learn Chinese (as many nationalities learning Chinese together had to have a common language... Continue Reading →

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