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(1913) Church Consecrated in Kiaochow 1

Photo of workers setting the roofing tiles of the new Swedish baptist church in Kiaohsien, China, 1913
Setting Roofing Tile of the
New Baptist Church in
Kiaohsien, China, 1913.
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In 1913 Kiaochow church [was this the first real church building?] was consecrated. This was also the year that saw the first graduates from the Kiaochow middle school [mellanskolan].

Hellen Works for Baker

At the age of fourteen a girl in Sweden by the name of Hellen went to work making 'hard tack' for a local woman baker. It was not a very pleasant experience. At the end of the work day Hellen would not even take the time to wash the flower off her hands, but rather leave immediately for her mother's apartment down by the harbor (probably in the Haga district of Göteborg by Jarntorget Place).2

In 1913 Hellen was baptized along with her twin brother and an older sister (which one?) and seven other young people in Lynnéa Church in Göteborg.8 Hellen saw this event as a 'big adventure.'

1. Kiaochow was also known as 'Jiaoxien' and 'Kiaohsien'.

2. Email from Dollan Brown to Lennart Holmquist, June 12, 2000.

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