Coleman, Inabelle Graves

  1. Coleman, Inabelle Graves
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1898 Born with twin sister, Jesablair, in Durham, N.C. 1918 Graduated from Woman's College in Greensboro, N.C., and became assistant principal of Creedmoor School and later principal of Northside School. 1926 Began full-time work for the Intermediate Training Union of First Baptist Church. Started writing books and contributed regularly to Baptist publications. 1940 1943 As a contract teacher under the Southern Baptist Convention's Foreign Mission Board, she served as professor at the University of Shanghai, teaching journalism and English. 1943 Spent seven months in a Japanese internment camp. Repatriated. Formally appointed a missionary of the Foreign Mission Board of the Southern Baptist Convention. 1946 1950 Returned to missionary work and teaching post at the University of Shanghai. 1952 After the Communist occupation of China, she transferred to Taipei, Taiwan, and taught at National Taiwan University, a government sponsored university. 1953 Helped found Grace Baptist Church in Taipei, Taiwan. 1959 After returning on furlough, she became ill and died in the United States.

Coleman worked as a school administrator and journalist before gaining employment with the Intermediate Training Union of the First Baptist Church. During these experiences, she continued writing for the Daily Greensboro News, and Baptist publications, as well as authoring her own books. Her background in writing led to an editorship of the Foreign Mission Magazine which took her to Richmond, Virginia .

Later, while a professor in Shanghai, Coleman also became engaged in an active program of evangelism and social work. A request to the Foreign Mission Board of the denomination allowed her to remain in Shanghai during part of World War II. Upon repatriation in 1943, she went to Columbia University in New York, where she received her master's degree from the School of Philosophy, and completed additional graduate work. When conditions in China allowed, she returned to complete four more years at the University of Shanghai. In Taiwan, her teaching and evangelistic duties continued. She worked until a furlough in 1957.

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