Learning to be a Missionary in the Land of the Golden Pagoda

About the Book

Learning to be a Missionary in a Foreign Land requires that a person not only learn the language of the country but also the culture and way of thinking of the people in that land. The author was blessed to have help and guidance in working with the ethnic Karens of Burma, then Thailand, and the Karens living in the USA. God used her to help in Christian Education, Women's Work, in preparation of language lessons, both for those needing to learn the language and for Karens illiterate in their own language.

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.