We were at Platte Valley Academy, Shelton, Nebraska where I had been principal for two years when W. P.  Bradley of the General Conference called and asked if we were still interested in mission service. Our response was positive. He then sent us an official invitation to the principalship of what was knownat that time as South China Training Institute located at Clearwater By, Kowloon, Hong Kong.

It was September of 1953 when we arrived at Clearwater Bay and began our eighteen year period of service among the Chinese people.

We began the study of the Cantonese dialect immediately. A few months later I was officially appointed as Principal of South China Training College. It was difficult to juggle language study and school responsibilities. In retrospect it was a good arrangement for it forced me to use what Cantonese I learned from the teacher.

During the nine years we served at the Clearwater Bay school as principal and as Union Educational Secretary, we worked, not only to begin college classes in ministerial training, teacher training and nurse training, but also helped in the development of the Happy Valley, Boundary Street, Taipo and Macao schools. 

Our last three years in Hong Kong were spent in assisting with development of the medical work in Tsuen Wan and later at Stubbs Road. It was my responsibility to supervise the construction and equipping of the Tsuen Wan Adventist Hospital and help raise funds for the Hong Kong hospital project. 

In 1965 we were asked to move to Taiwan to serve as departmental secretary of the South China Island Union. That assignment lasted only a few short months until Elder Carl Currie returned home on permanent return and I was asked to become the president of the North Taiwan Mission. Later the North and South Taiwan Missionswere realigned to become the Tai Ping and Tai Aan Missions.

The Tai Ping Mission of which I was president served the Chinese constituency of the Island while the Tai Aan Mission served the aboriginal constituency under Jerald Christensen, President of that mission.

Our official mission service came to a close June, 1971 when we returned to the United States on permanent return. I then served as pastor of two churches in the Northern California Conference: Oroville for a period of five years and then Orangevale until retirement in January, 1984.

After retirement I spent four months in Hong Kong helping with fund-raising for the Hong Kong Adventist Hospital. Soon after that it was our privilege to serve as pastor of the San Francisco Chinese Church for nearly two years. We look upon those two years as the most satisfying and enjoyable time of our entire ministry of some forty-three years. 

To us our yearsof service among the Chinese people is the most precious period of service of our lifetime. We thank God for the experience and for the friends gained during those wonderful years.

He passed away in 2006.