--- a message from Stephen:
Thanks for the E mail I'm happy for you to use the speech. I had to produce it in duplicate,also I was not to mention politics or religion. When I came forward to give the speech the buraucrat who was in charge told the interpretor the the speech was too long. So they must cancel it. However the organizer came up and overuled him. God bless Steve.
Stephen A. Metcalf’s Memoirs. (Jan 1999)
This account begins in 1928 in the little Lisu village of Taku (Now Dao-Gu) high in the mountains near Yuanmou City on the southern most bend of the Yangtze River in Yunnan province in South West China.
All day rumours had been abroad that a large band of marauding bandits (Army deserters) were likely to raid the village. Many of the villagers had already ...
FINAL DAYS BEFORE FREEDOM
THE B29’s WITH THEIR WELCOME SUPPLIES.
The next few days were full of surprises. A few of us decided we would walk into the City of Weishien. What a change it was to walk along a country road for miles in a straight direction. For years we had walked around and around our ...
FREEDOM TILL ARRIVAL IN AUSSIE
A PLANE TO TAKE ME TO FREEDOM.
All this time my own thoughts were obsessed by how I might once again meet up with my parents. They were about 2,000 miles away in Southwest China. Almost every day American planes were flying in from Kunming via Sian. There must be a way ...
MY CALL TO JAPAN. (S.A.Metcalf)
In 1947 the CIM wrote to father and mother telling them as father was coming up to retirement age, and their furlough time was coming up they would now be retired. My sister had just entered Bible School. My parents wrote back asking for an extension in order to finish the translation of the Eastern Lisu New Testament. The extension was granted. I had to ...
SAM POLLARD AND THE LEPERS.
At the end of the 19th century, Sam Pollard a Wesleyan Methodist Missionary, from England Was working in the remote city of Zhaotong in South West China. One day ten lepers walked into his clinic, seeking a cure for their leprosy. These lepers were from the Miao Tribe, with their flowery dress. He told them he had no cure for leprosy, but if they stay and listen to the preaching in the hall, they would learn about ...