His mother, Sylvia, was a graduate of the West Virginia University in journalism who met his father, Gerald, in 1934 at Ashbury Seminary when they were both attending that seminary in Kentucky. She loved to write letters and stayed in contact with her prayer supporters and financial supporters.” At one point, my mother said she had 285 people she wrote to who supported them with prayer. “So many family and friends prayed for China while they were missionaries there. “The book brings out the importance of prayer,” Zimmer said. The book consists primarily of excerpts of those letters, which describe the hardships of doing mission work in a remote part of southwestern China during the Japanese invasion, World War II and civil war in China, as well as their trust in God during that time. His mother, who passed away in 1995, had gotten the letters back from her mother and passed them on to Zimmer’s younger sister, who then gave them to him. “They will probably be the only two I write,” Zimmer said about his hectic year of writing, which saw “The Pull of China” published in December and “Eagle Wings Over the Valley” finished in January.ĭuring his retirement years, Zimmer said he has tried different things to keep him busy and decided about a year ago to write “The Pull of China” after coming across some letters his parents had written to their mothers during their time in China. He has written two books, one about his parents’ experiences in China as missionaries from 1936 to 1948 and the other about coping with mental illness in his family.
The past year has been a busy one for Clinton Stanley “Stan” Zimmer, a 1965 Ashland College graduate.
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