[ccmay]

The Hutou church was officially founded in 1983, though it started with more than a thousand Chinese unofficial believers.

Actually, the church in Hutou was founded in about 1880 by my great-great-grandfather, the Rev. Dr. Nathan Sites, Methodist missionary from Ohio. We are fortunate to have his journal and many pictures and mementoes from the thirty-five years he spent evangelizing in Fujian province, which was then called Fukien.

-ccm

[ahadams2]

Wow! have you thought of posting some of what he wrote to a website - I bet there would be interest in it.