Milton and Helen Lee were born in Shanghai China. Their parents were the Frederick Lees and the M.C. Warrens, long-time missionaries to China.

After finishing high school at the Far Eastern Academy, they went to the United States for college.  During their first years in college, Milton attended Southern California Junior College while Helen began the nurses’ course at St. Helena.  During their last two years, they were closer together, Milton being at Pacific Union College, and Helen at St. Helena.

When the Lees graduated in 1936, they already had a call to China.  They were to join the Claude Millers in work for the aborigines of Yunnan province, southwestern-most province of China.

The Lees were asked to open a new section Yunnan, not far from the Laos border.  They lived in the Hsien town of Mokiang (Inky River), where Helen opened a dispensary. From this base the Lees traveled extensively in the mountain areas where most of the aborigines lived.  Most of their travel was by foot and by horse. When their first child, Fred, was born, they took him along too.

After spending five years in the Mokiang area, they were called to Kunming, headquarters of the Unnan Mission.  By this time many companies among the Yi surrounding Mokiang had been raised up.

Milton was president of the Yunnan Mission until 1944.  Their furlough was overdue and they were happy when the Doyle Barnetts came to relieve them.

From 1944 to 1946 during World War II, the Lees were granted a return to the States, where Milton accepted a pastoral district in Ohio.

After VJ Day, 1946 Helen and Milton, with son, Fred, and daughter, Sylvia (who was born on furlough) returned to China.  Milton had been asked to join David Lin in starting the Chinese “Voice of Prophecy” in shanghai.  David had already prepared the first Voice of Prophecy Chinese lessons, as well as the first set of Voice of Prophecy radio scripts.  There were recorded in the United States before returning to China.

Soon after getting settled in Shanghai, David arranged for radio time on a Shanghai station.  David was the first Chinese Voice of Prophecy speaker.  Later our second speaker was Pastor C.L. Meng. David continued as director of the Chinese Voice of Prophecy and Milton was asked to be the Division Evangelist.

(David Lin’s Bible lessons proved very effective and were used not only throughout China but later in Taiwan as well.)

The Lees first effort was in the Chinese YMCA in Shanghai.  Their second effort was in Beijing.  Milton Lee’s father joined him in this campaign.  The meeting place was an old imperial ancestral hall within the confines of the Forbidden City.  After the first campaign, father Lee returned to his work at the “Review” at Takoma Park. The Lees continued in Beijing with another campaign and 86 souls were baptized before they had to evacuate due to the Communist threat.

The Lees third campaign was in Kunming, before they evacuated China altogether.  This was in 1948 and 1949.

When the Lees evacuated to Hong Kong, they were asked to teach in the Sam Yuk College at Clearwater Bay.  (Milton was head of the Ministerial Department.)  They taught there for one year.  On Sundays Milton alternated with Pastor Meng in preaching at the Bible Auditorium.

After a short period of evangelism in Hong Kong, the Lees were asked to move to Taiwan.  This was in 1951.  Here Milton revived the Chinese Voice of Prophecy and became its speaker.

The name was changed from “Voice of Prophecy” to “The Voice of the Signs” (Shih Chao Chih Sheng).  This was done because the “Signs” name was well known throughout the Far East among Chinese.

From 1960 to 1966, Milton was asked to be the Far Eastern Division evangelist to the Chinese people.  They then moved to Singapore.  (The Chinese merchants are scattered throughout the Far East and many spoke Mandarin.)  So Milton, who spoke Mandarin, usually had a translator into the local dialect.

After the Lees returned to Taiwan, Milton added another program to his regular Mandarin preaching broadcast.  This was a bi-lingual broadcast entitled “The Meaning of our Times.”  Mrs. Lee produced the bi-lingual booklet which introduced most of the doctrines.

Before retirement in 1980, the Lees became involved in TV.  The Voice of the Signs sponsored a weekly telecast over the Chinese Television Company in Taipei.  It was on the air every Sunday for nearly 10 years.  The money came mostly from contributions from abroad.  Edwin Lee was the producer and Helen Lee the advisor.

Since 1980, the Lees have retired in Angwin.  During these years Helen had helped to produce the “Bible in Living Sound” on tape in Chinese.  Milton has a regular weekly broadcast on AWR-Asia, which he records at KCDS Angwin.  They have visited China 13 times.