Virginia Bowen - A Life of Fruitful Service

Born Lois Virginia Bowen on August 13, 1923 -  probably Santa Cruz, CA

Raised in Santa Cruz, CA and graduated from high school there

Graduated from Westmont College in Santa Barbara, CA in 1945

During the next 5-year period:

        She taught for a year with the Kentucky Mountain Mission in KY

        Attended the 1-yr graduate program at Multnomah School of the Bible in Portland, OR

        Taught one year in public schools in Tulare County, CA

        Took advanced Japanese study at the University of California, Berkeley

        Attended the Wycliffe Bible Translators' Summer Institute of Linguistics at the University of Oklahoma at Norman in 1950

Went to Japan in 1950 under the Conservative Baptist Foreign Missionary Society (CBFS) in response to Gen.  McArthur's call for 1,000 Christian missionaries to Japan

Began her long-term missionary partnership with Lorraine L. Fleischman in 1953

Church planting in Ishinomaki City until the mid 1960s

Student ministry with the Japanese "Intervarsity" (KGK) until the late '70s

Ministry with Neighborhood Bible Studies and church planting in Machida City until retirement.

Retired in 1987 to Corvallis, OR, from Japan

In 1998 she moved to Hillside Retirement Community in McMinnville, OR    

 

Ginny with Conservative Baptist missionary ladies Evelyn Varney, Lorraine Fleischman, and Alice Foreman