Alice E (Hayes) Taylor (1898 - 1987)

Born 22 Apr 1898 in Top, Kittanning Township, Armstrong, Pennsylvania, United States

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Died 7 Oct 1987 at age 89 in Spring Arbor, Jackson, Michigan, United States

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Alice married her husband James Hudson Taylor II on June 12, 1924, having met as students at Greenville College. Before this, she taught at Spring Arbor Academy then with James, pastored the Free Methodist Church in Culpepper, Virginia. In 1926, the pair went to China after their appointment by the General Missionary Board of the Free Methodist Church. She taught at the Kaifeng Bible School & Northwest Bible Institute, besides engaging in evangelism. During WWII the Taylor family was separated for 5 years, 6 months when 4 of their children were held in a Japanese concentration camp. Following their return to the US, Alice travelled widely representing the same Board in laying the challenge of China & world missions before the church. They were appointed to new pioneer ministries in Taiwan in 1953 & retired in 1967. That's where she shared in the founding of Holy Light Theological College and the planting of over 20 churches, mostly in remote villages. In retirement she wrote, "Rescued from the Dragon."