History of Shan Churches in Burma 1861-2001 - Khamkoo

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Baptist mission among the Shan 60 At first the Shan missionaries at NamKham were responsible for the Kachin work. But in 1906 a separate missionary was appointed for the Kachin work. However, occasionally one missionary family had to serve both language groups. The hospital served Shan, Kachin, Chinese, and other races on an equal basis. In 1914 separate Shan and Kachin Churches were organized and in 1919 the schools for Shan and Kachin became separate too. It was reported in 1916 that the Christians have increased from sixty-seven to seventy-six. From 1922, Dr. and Mrs. Gordon Seagrave served in NamKham until World War II forced their evacuation from Burma. They gave the longest continuous service to the NamKham mission. New buildings were constructed, using the cobblestones from the NamZaLe and NamYaKau and better equipments were added. The Nurses’ Training Class trained young women from wide areas of Upper Burma for good service to the country and people. In 1942, there were about five hundred Shan Christian in the ShweLi Valley, and a firm foundation had been built. The war brought trials and testing to the Shan Christians. When the Japanese occupied the ShweLi Valley, they mistook the Shan pastor in SeLan, Saya Paw Kham, for Chinese and murdered him and his son. Immediately the rumor spread that the Japanese would persecute and kill Shan Christians, and many of them evacuated to the jungle with only what they could carry with them. They built bamboo chapels for their worship services. In spite of the dangers, Christmas 1942 was celebrated by the ShweLi Valley Christians with Shan Buddhist and Japanese guests. Their experience led to the formation of the ShweLi Valley Baptist Association on December 24, 1945, with Saya Ai Pan, pastor of the Church at NamKham, as President, and Saya Kham Yee as Secretary. Dr. Seagrave had resigned from mission service in 1942 to join the medical Corps of the United States Army. His American friends organized an independent, non-denominational agency to operate the hospital in NamKham along with an Advisory Committee of local leaders. The American Baptist Foreign Mission Society leased the NamKham Hospital compound and buildings to this agency at a very nominal rate. The ShweLi Valley did not escape the general insecurity of the post-war and post independence periods. NamKham was occupied for a time in 1950 by insurgent forces, and they took personnel and medical supplies with them when driven out by Government troops. First Shan convert On December 28, 1894, Rev. Cochrane said, “The three converts are doing well. The young man, our first fruit, was married last night to a good-looking, highly respectable Shan girl. She was perfectly willing to have the ceremony performed according to Christian custom and seemed to enjoy the change of style.” 62 The names of those three converts were not mentioned in the report. We don’t know who they were. By oral tradition Kham Maung was the first Shan convert in ShweLi when he was baptized at the age of 15. Kham Maung was ordained on March 5, 1924. ShweLi Valley Baptist High School NamKham Mission School began in February 1893 with a teacher and twelve pupils. In May the number of students increased to eighteen, ten day-pupils and eight boarders. They studied the Bible the first hour every morning. During the first year five of the pupils had been baptized. They were expected to become preachers, teachers and Bible-women in the future. Dr. Hanson conducted a combined boarding school for Shan and Kachin. He also took charge of the girl boarders on the Kachin compound and Dr. C. A. Kirkpatrick took charge of the boy boarders on the Shan compound. Dr. Kirkpatrick had also established a day school for Shan in the town of NamKham. Saya Sam Pwa arrived in NamKham in 1901 and worked as schoolteacher until he passed away in 1942. Saya Htun Pyu and Saya Tha Dun arrived NamKham in 1912 to teach at school. In 1914 the increase of Shan and Kachin girls in the school making 22 in all. There was such dire need of a girls’ dormitory that they could not let the opportunity pass. When the board were unable to give rupees 62 Report from Rev. W.W. Cochrane, NamKham, Dec. 8, 1894, The Baptist Missionary Magazine, p78
Baptist mission among the Shan 61 1,500 they applied to Government for a building grant and received rupees 1,000. Ms. Anderson was sent to NamKham from American Baptist Mission in 1937 to oversee education and Church work. The school was nationalized by military government in 1963. Evangelistic bazaar meetings The large zayat in the bazaar was thronged with thousand of people from the surrounding villages on fifth-day-bazaar day. It was a great opportunity of preaching gospel and distributing tracts to multitude of people in the bazaar. People from different towns and villages came to the bazaar. It was just like a festival or carnival. Zayat was usually put up near the bazaar to give a temporary shelter to the people. The preachers were faithful in proclaiming the gospel message in zayat. The meetings were also held in other bazaars as much as possible. The preachers, schoolteachers and at times, even school students, conducting preaching services at the zayat. Fifth-day-bazaar was rotating among NamKham, SeLan and MuSe. NamKham Hospital NamKham Hospital began in 1893. Dr. M.B. Kirkpatrick, Dr. Robert Harper, Dr. C.A. Kirkpatrick Jr, Dr. Rittenhouse, Dr. Robin Hrasu, Dr. Gordon Seagrave, Dr. Grace Seagrave, Dr. Ah Pon and Dr. Ai Lun had served as missionary doctors. The hospital was not only treating patients it also held the gospel meeting six days in a week. The record for the first six months showed 3,396 had attended the meetings and 3,785 patients had been treated, about 200 at their homes and 4,389 prescriptions had been furnished. The first missionary doctor to serve at NamKham hospital was Dr. M.B. Kirkpatrick in 1896. Dr. Harper arrived NamKham and took over medical work from Kirkpatrick on June 1, 1902. New hospital was completed in 1904. The nursing training program in NamKham hospital was very famous in the country. The hospital services were Dr. Seagrave seen in front of Thatch church building in 1935 so successful that many patients from the Burma proper and China came to seek treatment. Dr. C.A. Kirkpatrick Junior arrived ShweLi Valley in 1913. Dr. Gordon Seagrave arrived NamKham in 1922. He worked very hard on medical mission, education and evangelism. Dr. Ah Pon came to help NamKham Hospital in 1927. It was reported in 1930 by Dr. Seagrave, “NamKham welcomed the first American nurse ever seen here. With this addition to the staff we hope to obtain government recognition to the hospital as training school for nurses and midwives. We have sixteen in training now. One is running a small hospital and dispensary of her own fifty miles away and reports indicates that she is proving great blessing to the people of her section who have never had medical aid of any sort before. All the girls who have graduated or under training are Christians and impact are quite apparent to the patients. The Christian influence of the hospital cannot be measured. We are now building a new hospital, which is being financed by Woodword Avenue Church of Detroit in memory of Dr. Harper. We expect this new building with large ward space, administrative room, dispensary and private room to be worth memorial well fitted to carry on a worthwhile task.” 63 Dr. Robert Harper Memorial Hospital was built in NamKham in 1930. It was built of smooth stones collected from NamZaLe and NamYaKau. Kham Ye was appointed the head of the laborers 63 116th Annual report, 1930, American Baptist Foreign Missionary Society, p100
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I HISTORY OF SHAN CHURCHES IN BURMA
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III Preface Praise be to God our He
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Analysis 209 As reported in August
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Analysis 211 Acts 8:36-38 As they t
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Analysis 225 Christians” 93 Makin
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Conclusion 271 Northern Shan State
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Conclusion 273 Luke 9:1-2 When Jesu
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Appendix 369 In retrospect, Dr. Sai
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References and sources 399 Referenc
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Index 401 INDEX 21st Century…69,
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Index 403 Gibbens………52, 54, 7
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Index 405 NamKham……46, 47, 48,
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Index 407 TaChiLeik……68, 69, 74
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