Finding My Way Home: A Christian Life in Communist China - Paperback

by Kenneth Chatlos (Author), Nettie Ma (Author)

"When I was a young girl, my parents warned me never to record my story with black ink on white paper." So begins Finding My Way Home, the story of one Chinese Christian girl in an age of great change for a great nation. The memoir follows the trials and travails of Nettie Ma and her family as they endure Japanese occupation and then Chairman Mao's Communist Cultural Revolution. From the conversion of her grandfather in China by an American missionary to the desire to pass this same legacy on to her children, Nettie Ma traces her Christian journey through the valleys and peaks that have led her to a new home in the United States. With black ink on white paper, Nettie Ma now tells about that journey.

Author Biography

Nettie Ma is an instructor in orchestra and harp at William Jewell College. She received her B.A. in harp performance from the Shanghai Conservatory of Music and her M.M.E. and Ph.D. in music education from North Texas State University. She has performed as Soloist and First Harpist of the Song and Dance Ensemble of the Zhejiang Province in China and as Harpist of the Liberty Symphony. She is a member of Second Baptist Church in Liberty, Missouri. Kenneth Chatlos is Oxbridge Professor and Chair of the Department of History at William Jewell College. He is a member of Second Baptist Church in Liberty, Missouri.