Annie Skau Berntsen

Annie Skau Berntsen (Chinese: 司務道[1]), also known as Sister Annie (29 May 1911 - 26 November 1992) was a Norwegian missionary who served in China and Hong Kong [2]. She was trained as a nurse, and worked first as a nurse in both the Ullevål Hospital in Oslo and at the Dikemark, a psychiatric hospital in Asker. She was sent to the province of Shaanxi in northern China by the Norwegian Missionary Association (Det Norske Misjonsforbund), where she arrived on 23 December 1938. She was twenty-seven years old at the time, and at 190 cm she was the tallest woman the Chinese locals had ever seen before. After the Communist advance, it was impossible to continue as a foreign missionary in China, so she was forced to move in 1951 [3]. From 1952 she coordinated relief work among Chinese refugees in Hong Kong, where she was co-founder of Port Hope, a sanatorium for tuberculosis. She became nationally known in Norway when she was portrayed in the Norwegian program "This is Your Life" («Dette er ditt liv»). In 1963 she was appointed as a First Class Knight of St. Olav. She was the sister of former Norwegian Attorney General Bjørn Skau.

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Books by Annie Skau Berntsen

Literature

References

  1. ^ Chinese Pinyin pronounciation: Sīwùdào
  2. ^ Einar Thomassen, Canon and canonicity: the formation and use of scripture, p.161
  3. ^ John D. Woodbridge, Ambassadors for Christ, p.199

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Protestant missions to China
Background
People
Missionary agencies
Impact
Pivotal events
Chinese protestants