By Lonnie Wilkey
Editor, Baptist and Reflector
lwilkey@tnbaptist.org
LAFOLLETTE — At the age of 93, Dixie Hausser tells it like it is.
“If the missionaries had not come, I’d probably not be a Christian today,” said Hausser, who later moved to Tennessee as an adult and is an active member of First Baptist Church, LaFollette.
The missionaries she refers to were appointed by the Southern Baptist Foreign Mission Board (now International Mission Board) and serving in the Orient prior to World War II. Once tensions increased worldwide, the IMB evacuated missionaries from China, Japan and other locations to Hawaii which was then a United States territory. [Read more…]