Missionary Ragna Aavik died October 7th. With her, a distinguished missionary in the Norwegian Lutheran Missionary Association has passed away.
Ragna was educated as a nurse, and after Bible school in England she traveled to China in 1929 where she married Asbjørn Aavik in 1931. Ragna and her husband were involved in a rich missionary work both in China and Taiwan.
For many and long years Ragna had to be alone at home with the children, with Asbjørn out. The special thing about this missionary we find in what Ragna herself writes in the book: Only a missionary wife.
Alone again. Three times I have stood on the pier and seen my husband give on board and leave the children and me, such, friends and fatherland. It was the call he received at a young age, the call to China, and I know it was a call from God. The longest time and the most difficult were the eight years from 1938-1946.
Due to unrest in China and war in the West, Ragna was left alone in Norway with a large group of children during this long period of time.
The memory of Ragna Aavik is strong. It is the memory of a missionary at home and abroad in fidelity and willingness to sacrifice.
Ragna was educated as a nurse, and after Bible school in England she traveled to China in 1929 where she married Asbjørn Aavik in 1931. Ragna and her husband were involved in a rich missionary work both in China and Taiwan.
For many and long years Ragna had to be alone at home with the children, with Asbjørn out. The special thing about this missionary we find in what Ragna herself writes in the book: Only a missionary wife.
Alone again. Three times I have stood on the pier and seen my husband give on board and leave the children and me, such, friends and fatherland. It was the call he received at a young age, the call to China, and I know it was a call from God. The longest time and the most difficult were the eight years from 1938-1946.
Due to unrest in China and war in the West, Ragna was left alone in Norway with a large group of children during this long period of time.
The memory of Ragna Aavik is strong. It is the memory of a missionary at home and abroad in fidelity and willingness to sacrifice.
Missionary Ragna Aavik died October 7th. With her, a distinguished missionary in the Norwegian Lutheran Missionary Association has passed away.
Ragna was educated as a nurse, and after Bible school in England she traveled to China in 1929 where she married Asbjørn Aavik in 1931. Ragna and her husband were involved in a rich missionary work both in China and Taiwan.
For many and long years Ragna had to be alone at home with the children, with Asbjørn out. The special thing about this missionary we find in what Ragna herself writes in the book: Only a missionary wife.
Alone again. Three times I have stood on the pier and seen my husband give on board and leave the children and me, such, friends and fatherland. It was the call he received at a young age, the call to China, and I know it was a call from God. The longest time and the most difficult were the eight years from 1938-1946.
Due to unrest in China and war in the West, Ragna was left alone in Norway with a large group of children during this long period of time.
The memory of Ragna Aavik is strong. It is the memory of a missionary at home and abroad in fidelity and willingness to sacrifice.
Ragna was educated as a nurse, and after Bible school in England she traveled to China in 1929 where she married Asbjørn Aavik in 1931. Ragna and her husband were involved in a rich missionary work both in China and Taiwan.
For many and long years Ragna had to be alone at home with the children, with Asbjørn out. The special thing about this missionary we find in what Ragna herself writes in the book: Only a missionary wife.
Alone again. Three times I have stood on the pier and seen my husband give on board and leave the children and me, such, friends and fatherland. It was the call he received at a young age, the call to China, and I know it was a call from God. The longest time and the most difficult were the eight years from 1938-1946.
Due to unrest in China and war in the West, Ragna was left alone in Norway with a large group of children during this long period of time.
The memory of Ragna Aavik is strong. It is the memory of a missionary at home and abroad in fidelity and willingness to sacrifice.
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