Isobel Kuhn (1901-1957) missionary to Lisu people of China

Isobel Selina Miller Kuhn - Belle - was a Canadian Christian missionary to the Lisu people of Yunnan Province, China and northern Thailand.
She served with the China Inland Mission, along with her husband John , as a Bible translator, church planter, Bible teacher, evangelist and author of 9 books about her experiences.

Rainy Seasons Bible Schools was opened by Isobel. During the dry season her ‘pupils’ worked hard on the land. When the floods came they were able to study.

From 1930-1954 Isobel and John were missionaries in China. Their missionary work was put on hold from 1950-2 because of the Chinese communist revolution.

In 1954 Isobel was diagnosed with cancer and she concentrated on writing her books.

Her first book By Searching is an autobiography of her early life in a Christian home and her eventual conversion, aged 20, to being a born again Christian. ISBN 978-0853639111
Irene Howat in her book Gold from Dark Mines looks at Isobel 's searching and 5 other well known Christians and their build-up to their conversions.

Isobel died on March 20th 1957 with her John at her side. Her funeral was held at Wheaton College Church.

When I get to heaven they aren’t going to see much of me but my heels, for I’ll be hanging over the golden wall keeping an eye on the Lisu church!
Isobel Kuhn

(Note
Her father was a roentgenologist - a person who uses x-rays in the diagnosis of illness an disease.)

Sources
Wikipedia 4 excellent pages of notes
Gold From Dark Mines Irene Howat ch7 p173-p203 (ISBN 1 -85792-943-8)