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October 20 Today in OPC History

Harvie and Dottie Conn

 

On October 20, 1956, Harvie and Dorthy Diedrich Conn were married. While students at Westminster Theological Seminary, Harvie and classmate Paul MacDonald worked to establish an Orthodox Presbyterian congregation in Stratford, New Jersey. The Presbytery of New Jersey ordained and installed Harvie as a Home Missionary to Stratford following his 1957 graduation from Westminster.

A year later Harvie and Dottie were called to serve as Orthodox Presbyterian missionaries in Korea. They would serve until 1972, and were blessed at that time with five children, David, Peter, Ruth, Elizabeth and Andrew.

Harvie returned to Westminster Seminary, where he would serve as a Professor of Missions and Apologetics. Battling cancer in the late 1990s, Harvie wrote friends, "Over forty years ago, Dottie and I chose the path of the wise men and followed His star. We have been Jesus-stargazers ever since. . . He still goes before; we still follow—not always wisely, not always obediently. But always hopeful.”

On August 28, 1999, Harvie went to be with the Lord, and on June 10, 2005 Dottie went to be with her Savior.

Picture: Harvie and Dottie Conn

 

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