Tabor College Provost

Here is an entry from the Mennonite Church USA Archives about my great, great Uncle and Aunt.

J. A. Ressler (1867-1936) was a pioneer Mennonite missionary serving in India from 1899 to 1908. He worked at the Mennonite Publishing House from 1911 to 1936 as an editor of the Gospel Herald. He also served as an evangelist, Bible instructor, a bishop in the Southwestern Pennsylvania Conference, a member of the Southwestern Pennsylvania Mission Board, and as a member of many General Conference committees.

Lina Zook Ressler (1869-1848) was a worker in the Chicago Mennonite Mission, a missionary in India 1903-1908, and a writer and editor of materials especially for children’s papers.

I am headed to India to set up plans for Tabor trips to India during the next academic year. I will be blogging about my trip using the Carson Center blog. Here is the link:

A part of the trip is my personal pilgrimage to the place where Uncle JA began a work with the Mennonite Church 110 years ago. I will be visiting almost 100 years to the day he left. Maybe we could send students to the school or clinic that has now been in existance for a century.