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To the ends of their lives here on earth, they demonstrated their concern for people both near and as far as the 'corners' of the world. Adolph Hermann joined her in 1967 at the age of 87 years. Both friends and family knew this couple to be loving, simple living, and generous servants of the Lord Jesus Christ.Įmma Hermann went home to be with the Lord in 1964 at the age of 85 years. They supported themselves by their gardening, housework, childcare and as a railroad crossing watchman. For the next sixteen years, they lived in Missouri and served in a Christian college before coming to Wheaton to provide a home for their daughter who was attending college.Īdolph and Emma Hermann were faithful, prayerful members of their church and of the CIM-OMF prayer fellowship in Wheaton. Hermann eventually joined his family in the USA in 1927. Following events during in their area of ministry in China, Mr. My husband returned to evangelistic work in Chen Chou, China, January '26, while I remain with the children, who are all in school' (March 1927). Emma Hicks Hermann was quoted in the Moody Alumni News during this time, 'I have been a missionary in the homeland since '24. Hermann and their children were sent to the USA with the expectation that she and their daughter would return to China after the boys were settled in school. Hermann developed a love for and skill with flowers that were native to that part of China while also forming lasting friendships and witnessing opportunities.ĭuring one of the political uprisings in north China in the mid-1920's, Mrs. Their work in China was itinerant evangelism and support services in a mission hospital. Two sons and a daughter were born to the couple while they served in China. Emma Hicks was a student of Moody Bible Institute's class of 1904, and went from the USA under the Presbyterian Board. Hermann was a graduate of Glasgow Bible Institute and went out from England under the China Inland Mission (now OMF International). This scholarship was funded to provide financial assistance to students of the Institute intending to serve the Lord Jesus Christ in future Christian service outside the North American continent.Īdolph and Emma Hermann served the Lord as missionaries in China for over twenty years. Kenneth and Jean Hansen, to honor her parents, Adolph and Emma Hermann and their years of faithful Christian service as missionaries in China in the early twentieth century. This scholarship was established through a generous legacy gift from the estate of Mr.

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