Joan Margaret Wales 1916 –2016
Joan served with China Inland Mission
(CIM) as an evangelist from September
1945 until her expulsion from China in
April 1951.
She continued as a missionary, working in
Thailand with OMF International, until her
‘retirement’ in 1983. In her 70s and 80s she
was able to return to China on short-term
teams,
teaching English. Her biography,
Point Me to the Skies (Monarch Publications),
was published in 2007.
Bolivia: the prison pastor
Carlos was born into an influential Roman Catholic family in the mountain capital of Bolivia, La Paz.
As a young man he worked his way into a good position within government offices, becoming Private Secretary to one of the ministers in the government of President Gonzalo Sanchez de Lozada. But in November 2007 his world fell apart. He was falsely accused of financial crimes and incarcerated in San Pedro Prison.