Julia Payne, a young woman from Birmingham, Alabama, answered the call to be a missionary to China and went in obedience to the God Who called her in 1920.
In 2020, it will be 100 years ago that Julia Payne, as single lady traveled by ship to Hong Kong. According to an article written in the Advocate by G. F. Taylor, all of the Pentecostal Holiness missionaries got sea sick with the exception of Julia Payne (who would become my mother on December 15, 1932 when she gave birth to me at Hilman Hospital in Birmingham, AL).
Julia Payne and Laura Hilton took their message of the Gospel of Jesus Christ to Pakhoi, China and sparked a revival that is still felt there 100 years later. It was W. H. Turner, the supervisory missionary, who left these women missionaries in Pakhoi to plant the Pentecostal Holiness Church there. When the Bamboo Curtain was lifted, Princeton Cates told me that they went into Pakhoi to see if the church survived communism. To their amazement that church was not only still there, but it thrived and there were some 500 Pentecostal Chinese believers serving the Lord.
It is my desire should the good Lord allows me to live to honor Julia Payne who fulfilled the calling of God upon her life to be a missionary. She learned the language because she loved the Chinese. She was a gifted preacher and teacher of the Word of God. She implanted a love for Chinese people deep within my spiritual DNA that is constantly there. It is little wonder that my best friend in the Quantico Marine Band was Eddie Dong, a clarinet player. His father was the well-known American artist Dong Kingdom who taught at Columbia, University, and was a famous watercolor landscape artist. He became a judge in the Miss America Pageants. I have visited Dong Kingman at his home in New York on several occasions. I have eaten delicious Chinese food in China Town with Dong Kingman, Eddie Dong, and a lady friend of their family. Eddie's mother had died and was going through the grief process, as well as his father.
In 2020, it will be 100 years ago that Julia Payne, as single lady traveled by ship to Hong Kong. According to an article written in the Advocate by G. F. Taylor, all of the Pentecostal Holiness missionaries got sea sick with the exception of Julia Payne (who would become my mother on December 15, 1932 when she gave birth to me at Hilman Hospital in Birmingham, AL).
Julia Payne and Laura Hilton took their message of the Gospel of Jesus Christ to Pakhoi, China and sparked a revival that is still felt there 100 years later. It was W. H. Turner, the supervisory missionary, who left these women missionaries in Pakhoi to plant the Pentecostal Holiness Church there. When the Bamboo Curtain was lifted, Princeton Cates told me that they went into Pakhoi to see if the church survived communism. To their amazement that church was not only still there, but it thrived and there were some 500 Pentecostal Chinese believers serving the Lord.
It is my desire should the good Lord allows me to live to honor Julia Payne who fulfilled the calling of God upon her life to be a missionary. She learned the language because she loved the Chinese. She was a gifted preacher and teacher of the Word of God. She implanted a love for Chinese people deep within my spiritual DNA that is constantly there. It is little wonder that my best friend in the Quantico Marine Band was Eddie Dong, a clarinet player. His father was the well-known American artist Dong Kingdom who taught at Columbia, University, and was a famous watercolor landscape artist. He became a judge in the Miss America Pageants. I have visited Dong Kingman at his home in New York on several occasions. I have eaten delicious Chinese food in China Town with Dong Kingman, Eddie Dong, and a lady friend of their family. Eddie's mother had died and was going through the grief process, as well as his father.