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My grandfather’s voice cracked as he spoke, and I leaned closer better to hear. It was 1969 with my brother and best friend, Sonny, being deployed to Vietnam. Grandfather had been telling me of life at home when Sonny’s and my father joined the Merchant Marines and survived four years in the North Atlantic and … Continue reading
The missionaries Cyrus and Ethel Dawsey were charged in 1915 with implanting Methodism in the sugarcane, coffee, cattle region of the westward interior of the State of São Paulo, Brazil. With a toddler, a newborn, and three more children yet to come, the couple settled in Birigui, today a town of 120,000 people but in … Continue reading
In 1916, my grandparents Cyrus and Ethel Dawsey accepted a missionary appointment to the city of Birigui in the state of São Paulo, Brazil. My father, Cyrus Jr., was born there in 1921. Among the family’s close friends were the family Figueira with their six children. In my father’s telling, all of the Figueira girls … Continue reading
Maybe you have noticed, as I have, that small acts can bear fruit, as the Bible claims, thirty and sixty and a hundred-fold. This is a story about my grandfather, Cyrus B. Dawsey (1886-1976), who became a missionary to South America and bishop in the Methodist Church. The main event occurred in 1906 when Grandfather … Continue reading
By the late twentieth century, the Methodist University in Piracicaba had an enrollment of over 10,000 students and was reputed to be one of the best private universities in South America. The school was founded on September 11, 1881, by a missionary from Louisville, Kentucky, Martha Watts, who based her work on the Christian belief … Continue reading
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