Into Life Eternal

Jaymes Paul Morgan, Sr. - February 1, 1910 -January 6, 2001

Jay Morgan was born in Loraine, Texas, to Christian parents, who influenced him to accept Christ as Savior in his early teens. After graduating from high school, Jay attended Oklahoma City University. In 1932, Jay married Dorothy Groves and their first child, Jaymes, Jr. was born the following year.

Jay served as superintendent of the Rosillo Street Mexican Mission in San Antonio for six months until the Morgans determined God was leading them into overseas missions. They served as independent missionaries in Kwanchowan, South China for six years, during which time their second child, Florence Ann, was born.

From 1941 to 1944, the Morgans often were cut off from contact with America, and were placed under house arrest by the Japanese. They continued their work of evangelism. Jay was marched out of town at gunpoint by an angry Chinese man who claimed he was a spy. Several Christian friends and Nationalist soldiers intervened, saving Jay's life.

In 1945, the Morgans were accepted as ABWE missionaries, arriving back in South China in 1947. Only a year later, the communists incited stonings at open-air meetings. Jay was preaching when he was stoned, resulting in permanent loss of vision in his right eye.

As political conditions in China worsened, the Morgans left for Hong Kong in 1949. For two years they filled in as teachers at the Doane Evangelistic Institute in Iloilo, Philippines. In 1951, Jay participated in the survey trip to Japan, and helped open the ABWE work there in 1953.

When illness forced the Barnett family, who had worked with the Morgans in China, to leave Hong Kong, Jay was asked to take over their work. The Morgans remained in Hong Kong from1959 until their retirement in 1977. They were involved in church planting, training national leaders, child evangelism, leading Bible studies, and operating rooftop schools,

Even in retirement, the Morgans remained active with the Chinese-speaking community in both the Bay Area and in Austin, Texas. They also represented ABWE to West Coast churches. Jay was able to travel to China in 1981 and see his Chinese "children in the faith" for the first time since 1949,

His wife Dorothy, daughter Ann, eight grandchildren, and nine great-grandchildren survive Jay. He was preceded in death by their son, Jaymes Jr., who died of cancer in 1971.

Paul Detlev Friedrichsen - December 17, 1908 - February 4, 2001

Paul Friedrichsen was born in Chicago to a German Baptist pastor and his wife. At the age of 10 during a series of evangelistic meetings at church, Paul trusted Christ as his personal Savior. He worked to pay his way through Wheaton College, saving enough to get married to Kay Hockman, an MK from China and gifted artist, one year after graduation.

After more training at Moody Bible Institute, the Friedrichsens, settled into a pastorate in Michigan. By the time the Freidiichsens were accepted by ABEO (as ABWE was then known) in 1939, they had two sons: Douglas and Robert. The family sailed to the Philippines that same year to begin their missionary career.

Paul's responsibilities included district evangelism in Iloilo, acting as director of the Doane Evangelistic Institute, and helping plant churches. During World War H when the Japanese invaded the Philippines, the Friedtichsen family went into hiding in the mountains until they were interned by the Japanese in Santo Tomas prison in Manila. Paul secretly took pictures in the prison camp, showing the extreme plight of the missionaries and other foreigners imprisoned by the Japanese.

Due to health problems caused by their ordeal in Santo Tomas, the Friedrichsens were forced to leave the Philippines. But many of the churches they started continued to flourish.

The Friedrichsens did not sever their connection with ABWE. Paul represented the mission in churches on the West Coast, and eventually returned to the Philippines in 1953 for evangelistic ministry on the island of Visayas.

The Friedrichsens retired from active service with ABWE in 1974, moving into Leisure World Retirement Village in Seal Beach, California, where their lives were anything but leisurely. They ministered together in their local church, holding Bible studies and proclaiming the good news of salvation, until Kay's death in 1988. Paul continued to study and memorize Scripture right up to the time of his own death.

Paul is survived by his two sons, Douglas and Robert; five grandchildren; and a sister.