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	Ronald Clements

		Writer and Researcher


	Overworking search engines for that last scrap of detail that will be scrapped in the final manuscript


	Point me to the Skies In Japan the Crickets Cry Even to death

In Japan the Crickets Cry

‘Our final destination had all the demeanour of an archetypal prison; institutionalized brick buildings standing out above six-foot high walls, guarded by electric fences. Japanese soldiers poked machine guns in our direction from stubby circular turrets, which squatted beneath wooden Chinese coolie-hat roofs.’

As a teenager Steve Metcalf was separated from his family for four years, held in Japanese internment camp in North China. One of the internees, Olympic runner Eric Liddell, challenged him to pray for his captors - a challenge that changed the direction of his life.

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‘In a time when there are few genuine heroes in Christian circles, it is refreshing to know someone like Steve who presents to us an authentic life that has been well spent. Reading his biography has been challenging and enjoyable, and hopefully will strike a strong note in the hearts of young people today who want to make a difference for God with their lives.’

Dan Bacon, OMF International

Point Me to the Skies - the amazing story of Joan Wales

'The story of the ambush had shaken them. "They are going to force you out. But you won't make it... They will shoot you on the mountain pass.'

In 1951, Joan Wales, a young China Inland Mission worker, was forced to leave China, the land God had called her to. Thirty seven years later she returned to find that the few months she spent amongst the Nosu of South Sichuan Province had not been wasted.

Available from Christian bookshops and online

Now translated into Korean and Chinese

‘A remarkable story of God’s faithfulness’

Womanalive


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		Research Projects

Even to Death - The Life and Legacy of Samuel Dyer by Irene Chang and James Hudson Taylor III

‘Not contented with the usual course of Missionary effort, [Dyer] applied himself to the compilation of vocabularies of the Chinese language... but principally to the construction of punches and matrices for the casting of two fonts of Chinese Type’

Obituary, Singapore Free Press, 9 November 1843

Samuel Dyer, with his wife Maria, worked as two of the first Protestant missionaries amongst the overseas Chinese of Malaysia and Singapore. Dyer’s painstaking research and experimentation in the printing of the Bible in Chinese pioneered the mass production of Bibles and tracts in Asia after his death.

Available in Chinese only


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