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Baptist Churches in Pre-WWII Imperial Japan

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SBC Womens Mtg at Seinan Gakuin Chapel, Fukuoka ~1920s

Kuni Wada 2nd row 4th from the left.  Standing in the center back of this photo is Grace Anne Hughes Mills. She served in Japan as a single missionary with the Northern Baptists from 1900-1910, and then married a Southern Baptist missionary named Ernest Mills and worked with him in Fukuoka for a few years and then many years in Nagasaki until her death in 1933. She started Maizuru Kindergarten in Fukuoka in 1913, and it still exists today. Also in this photo are SBC missionaries Effie Baker, Daisy Ray in front of her, Naomi Schell, Maude Burke Dozier, and on the other side her mother Delia T. Burke. Date: 1920s. Location: Seinan Gakuin Chapel, Fukuoka. This building still exists and is used as a school museum. 

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SBC Womens Mtg at Seinan Gakuin Chapel, Fukuoka ~1920s
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Kuni Wada 2nd row 4th from the left.  Standing in the center back of this photo is Grace Anne Hughes Mills. She served in Japan as a single missionary with … More »


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