Biography of Thelma Jean Brown Thelma Jean Brown was born at Mount Gambier on the 28th. May 1927 the third child of Walter Percival Brown and Florence Ann Brown (McEachern) of “Wattle Park” Nelson Victoria , one of a family of eight children. Thelma’s only early education was at the Nelson state School N0. 1615. After completing grade eight , she rode a horse some forty kms to Dartmoor where she successfully sat for her Merit Certificate She was a very good tennis player and played for Nelson in the local district tennis association. In 1945, her grandmother Mrs, Dorothy McEachern (Kerr) who ran the local telephone exchange and post office passed away and Thelma took over the position of Post Mistress and Telephone Exchange operator at Nelson. Thelma did this until 1950, using her wages to pay for her brother John to board and be educated at Hamilton High School. Thelma never married but was bridesmaid at three of her friends weddings. Thelma studied at the Melbourne Bible Institute from 1950 until 1953 and gained one on one missionary experience at the Melbourne City Mission. Thelma had always wanted to go to China as a missionary and joined the China Inland Mission. However Thelma was chosen to go to Japan instead to teach and preach the gospel and establish new Christian Churches in that country. The work was hard and sometimes she must have been very downhearted at the slow results of her ministry, but she never gave up.. As a result of her twenty one years in that country. A number of house churches were established and a great work was done among Japanese women. Over the years that followed those churches continued to grow and now we find established churches and congregations made evident from the number of letters she continued to receive from pastors of those churches right up to the time of her death. After spending twenty one years in Japan she returned to her home in Portland Victoria to care for her aging mother, but continuing to do deputation work for the mission for a further six years. She was a deaconess in the Portland Baptist church and taught in bile studies for many years. Thelma passed away in Portland on the 13th. May 2013 aged 85 years.
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