"For several years Oscar was the missionary designated to
the Wangtai Church and the surrounding Chapels (out posts) in the area. Wangtai
was first visited already by old Lindberg. On the trip I made with Oscar we
met people who still remembered how J[ohan] A[lfred] and Hedvig came to Wangtai.
Hedvig led one child, carried one and was pregnant with the third! – Later
on several other missionaries worked in this Church: Leander, Lidqvist, Strutz,
Martin Jansson etc. No missionary ever lived in Wangtai, since Wangtai is only
25 km from Jiaozhou [Kiaohsien]. The two-story house in Huayuan where Oscar’s
stayed, was designated for the missionary in charge of the Wangtai area. Of
course in the beginning Wangtai was an out post to Jiaozhou [Kiaohsien] –
but they became an autonomous church,54The
physical church was torn down during the Communist era. I think
in connection with the dedication of the Church in 1935, Dong was ordained minister
in 1940.49Quoted
in part in a one or two page document by Lally Rinell entitled 'Some facts about
the Communist take-over of Kiaohsien (Jiaoxien ¡ now again called Jiaozhou)
and Tsingtao (Qingdao)'. Document file name is 'Communist-Takeover'."]