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Podcast: The Lutheran Ladies' Lounge from KFUO Radio
Episode: #016: The Heroic Story of Gertrude Simon: China, 1943
Description: Twenty-two orphaned babies and toddlers. Daily Japanese bombing runs. Two hundred miles (by foot, through the mountains) stand between the children and relative safety. What’s an intrepid Lutheran woman missionary to do?
In the first installment of her new “Storytime” segment, Sarah takes Rachel, Erin, and Bri back in time to China in 1943 as she tells the life story of Gertrude Simon, a Lutheran missionary nurse and educator who not only served in China and Hong Kong for forty of the most tumultuous years of the twentieth century but also orchestrated the dramatic wartime evacuation of nearly two dozen infant...