A Place to Call Home
A Missionary Kid’s Tale
By George C. Kraft II
In the late fall of 1934, twenty-nine-year-old Pearl Strot set sail for China on a
Japanese vessel. A recent alumna of Moody Bible Institute’s program in mission preparation,
she was embarking on her new vocation.
A year later, George Kraft, six years her junior, also set sail for China. He was destined to become a world-class linguist and the compiler of a rare textbook in Tibetan.
Vividly evoking a time of tremendous transition in China and an all-embracing world conflagration, this volume rings with the uncompromising determination of a couple’s faith in Christ and their mutual calling.
It also deals honestly and poignantly with the cost of that uncompromising faith: the hardship brought to children who often felt abandoned, the painful separation of their families “back home,” and the danger to missionaries—far from modern medical care—of ubiquitous health threats.
“This is both a deeply personal memoir and an important historical and cultural document, capturing the unique experience of life as a child of missionaries. George has given voice to those who were too young to be heard at the time.”
—Hazel Gaynor
“Kraft’s memoir brings Chinese mission history to life and prompts us to assess our lives by asking what is our highest priority — our children? our comfort? or our calling?”
—David G. Myers
A Place to Call Home
2022
Van Raalte Press
$30.00
ISBN: 978-1-956060-00-3
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