Otto Frederick Schoerner (20 August 1906, Uniontown, Pennsylvania-18 May 2008 Carol Stream, IL) was a missionary with the China Inland Mission to Chinese Turkestan and Gansu.
He graduated from Moody Bible Institute. And in 1931 answered a call from China Inland Mission, then seeking 200 new volunteers to work in China. He was one of the last five of that 200.
After language school Schoerner was assigned to Xinjiang. He and Raymond H. Joyce were assigned to Qitai, China where they served for almost six years. During this time he proposed by mail to Katharine Dodd—a classmate from Moody Bible Institute.
In 1938 Schoerner, Will Drew, and Raymond H. Joyce traveled by horseback through the Himalaya mountains until they reached India , where they sailed to Shanghai.
He married Katharine on November 1938, and they were as a couple dispatched to teach in a school in Honan Province. Later they settled in Gansu Province, where Schoerner served as business manager for the Borden Memorial Hospital, a China Inland Mission hospital founded in memory of William Borden.
Communism forced him and his family to leave the country.
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