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The life and witness of Presbyterian missionary to China, Rev Andrew Weir, will be celebrated at a lecture to be given in his home congregation of Claggan Presbyterian, near Cookstown, next Thursday night, 21 October at 8pm.
Born in 1873, Andrew Weir was ordained to the ministry in Claggan Church 100 years ago last August and in September of 1899 travelled to China where he was to spend the rest of his life working mainly in the north eastern province of Manchuria . After his first wife died he married Margaret and it was in China that their son Jack, later Clerk of Assembly Dr Jack Weir, was born and where Andrew finally died and was buried in 1933.
Mrs Weir and Jack returned to Ireland though once Jack had completed his studies he went back to China where he stayed until the Chinese government purged the country of all missionaries in the fifties.
The lecture is organised by the Presbyterian Historical Society and will be given by Rev Ivor Smith, the present minister of Claggan.
Issued by Stephen Lynas, Presbyterian Information Services. Info@PresbyterianIreland.org
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