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Bible-believing, Baptist, religious, right, born, again, preaching, salvation Ingo Breuer Ingo Breuer webmaster@solidrockfaith.com no no http://www.solidrockfaith.com/en/2010/02/john-m-birch-an-ambassador-for-christ/ http://www.solidrockfaith.com/en/2010/02/john-m-birch-an-ambassador-for-christ/#comments Sun, 14 Feb 2010 19:11:04 +0000 Ingo Breuer http://www.solidrockfaith.com/en/?p=367 http://www.solidrockfaith.com/en/2010/02/john-m-birch-an-ambassador-for-christ/feed/ 0 0:00:01  May 28, 1918 – August 25, 1945 JOHN BIRCH was a Baptist missionary in a remote province of China during World War II when, through a series of extraordinary coincidences, he helped Colonel James Doolittle and several of his downed fliers to [...]  May 28, 1918 – August 25, 1945 JOHN BIRCH was a Baptist missionary in a remote province of China during World War II when, through a series of extraordinary coincidences, he helped Colonel James Doolittle and several of his downed fliers to safety. He was subsequently inducted into the U.S. Army as an intelligence officer under General Chennault, and served for slightly over three years of America‘s war with Japan. His remarkable feats of personal courage and leadership helped immeasurably to bring about victory in China. Ten days following the end of the war, while on a peaceful mission for the Army, he was brutally killed by Chinese Communists. LIKE many of the noble souls associated with America’s founding, John Morrison Birch was a man rooted in principles that transcend politics. In a “prose poem” written at age 26, John Birch gave voice to his Jefferson-esque longing to “live slowly, to relax with my family before a glowing fireplace … to enjoy a good book … to reach the sunset of my life sound in body and mind, flanked by strong sons and grandsons….” Regrettably, John Birch’s tireless service to God and liberty denied him such irenic pleasures. At the age of seven, Birch expressed a desire to become a Christian missionary. Upon learning of the violence inflicted upon missionaries by Chinese communists, the youngster selected China as his mission field. When cautioned by his pastor that “more will be killed” in China, Birch replied: “I know the big enemy is communism, but the Lord has called me. My life is in his hands, and I am not turning back.” Birch’s labors in China began in 1940, a time when the country was being ravaged by the Japanese military. After Pearl Harbor he dyed his hair black, adopted the garb of the local population, and continued his underground work behind enemy lines. He was a missionary for the World’s Fundamentalist Baptist Missionary Fellowship and graduated from Bible Baptist Seminary in Fort Worth, Texas. This seminary would later on name one of its buildings the John Birch Hall in honor of his achievements in China as well as his great influence on the seminary as an unswervingly fundamentalist Baptist. Prior to his seminary studies John Birch attended Mercer University in Macon, GA where John and twelve others raised heresy charges against their Christianity Professor John Freeman. Freeman used his freedom of inquiry to point out contradictions in the Bible, but his trial so affected the stability of the university that he was unable to retain his teaching position. Praise God for a young man who stood up for the Bible. While near the border of Japanese-occupied territory on the evening of April 19, 1942, Birch came upon Colonel James H. Doolittle and members of the raiding party that had just completed a dramatic bombing raid on Tokyo. With his encyclopedic knowledge of the language, customs, and geography of China, Birch was able to convey Doolittle and the crews of 12 American bombers to safety in free China. Shortly thereafter, Birch became an intelligence analyst as a second lieutenant with the China Air Task Force — General Claire Chennault’s legendary “Flying Tigers.” Performing high-risk intelligence-gathering missions on the ground, Birch acted as “the eyes of the 14th Air Force,” devising an early warning system that enabled U.S. air units to come to the aid of Chinese units under enemy attack. He also organized a rescue system for pilots who were shot down by the Japanese. Chennault credited Birch with the fact that 90 percent of his downed flyers were rescued. He also rescued the lives of many missionaries of the China Inland Mission who were stranded in China due to the Japanese invasion and the turmoil in the country. Those missionaries were put on US military airplanes that brought supplies in and provided an opportunity for the missionarie[...] Ingo Breuer no no