God's Hand upon Me

About the Book

Born into a Christian family active in a local mission-minded church, the author decided at the age of seven that she wanted to become a missionary. It was forty years before her dream was fulfilled, but in hindsight, she sees that all of her experiences as a child, a teenager, a college student, a student nurse, an army nurse, a seminary student, and a participant in the Wycliffe Bible Translators Institute were really preparation she would need on the mission field. Surely, God’s hand was upon her the whole time.

About the Author

Emilie Margaret Ballard was born in Hyattsville, Maryland, on July 21, 1919. She attended the local elementary and high schools, earned a BS with a major in nursing at the University of Maryland, served in the Army Nurse Corps during World War II, and earned an MRE with a major in missions at the Eastern Baptist Theological Seminary. She served as a missionary to the Karens in Burma and Thailand for almost forty-one years. Retiring in 1939, she spent three years in Thailand preparing language lessons for missionaries to Karens and then retired at Pilgrim Place retirement community in Claremont, California.