![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() In 1974, she founded Nora Lam Ministries International in San Jose, California and began making annual missionary crusades to Asia. With a sponsorship from Kathryn Kuhlman, Nora was able to immigrate to the US with her children, mother, and first husband Cheng Shen, in 1966. The US Immigration and Nationality Act of 1965 significantly reduced immigration quotas and gave Nora the chance to immigrate to the United States. Nora Lam claimed spousal abuse, divorced her husband, and was remarried to S. Paul Kauffman served as their pastor in Hong Kong, but the couple soon had marital difficulties. After petitioning Beijing, she was granted an exit visa to visit Hong Kong during her maternity leave.Īfter reaching Hong Kong in 1958, the couple's third child was born. Nora Lam, acting as a guarantor for his return, was forced to undergo hard labor despite being pregnant with their third child. In 1958, just as Mao Zedong's Great Leap Forward was beginning, Cheng Shen was able to obtain an exit visa to Hong Kong to visit his ailing father. During this time, Nora Lam gave birth to her second child, Ruth Lam Kendrick. In 1957, her husband, whose parents lived in Hong Kong, was also interrogated by officials as part of the first Anti-Rightist Movement. As she was questioned, she began to question herself, realizing that she still believed in Christianity. ![]() Due to her parents' wealth and western training and to her own experiences with foreign missionaries, Nora Lam was interrogated by Communist party officials, who wanted to break her of any bourgeois tendencies. ![]()
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