Asbjørn Aavik (November 30, 1902 – November 20, 1997) was a Norwegian Lutheranmissionary to China. He was also the author of approximately forty books.[1]
Aavik was born in Aavig (now Åvik) in Lindesnes, Norway. From 1921 to 1926, he received education at Fjellhaug utdanningssenter in Oslo, a missionary school affiliated with the Norwegian Lutheran Mission.
Missionary work
He was sent to China in 1928 where he started on the China Mission Association's mission fields around Laohekou in Hubei. Aavik married Ragna Torgersen (1906–1984) in 1932 and later moved to the Yunyang northwestern mission area. The situation was turbulent, not least because of robber bands and the communist insurgency in the 1930s. In 1935 the couple decided to return to Norway.[2]
The planned return trip to China had to be postponed because the missionaries in China warned of increasing uncertainty and unease, but in 1938 Aavik traveled alone, without family, back to the same mission field in China. The Norwegian missionaries would later temporarily and definitely leave this field because of World War II and the subsequent communist advance. Aavik returned home for the second time in 1946.
Aavik still came back to the Republic of China, now Taiwan, where he worked with less interruption from 1952 to 1970. His work consisted partly in teaching at a Bible school at Kaohsiung and at the Lutheran Theological Seminary in Taipei and Taichung. He also became the first principal at the China Lutheran Seminary in Hsinchu.
He was the writer of many missionary books. In the summer of 1999, a memorial stone was unveiled for the missionary in Åvik.
Selected works
Best known
Temple of the Spirit'', 1953 (translated to Chinese)
Holy unrest, 1956
Novels
They are waiting, 1940 (published in four editions)
Nybrott, 1941
Dalen, 1949 (best novel winner)
The white river, 1951
The Red Lotus, 1957
The earth is bleeding, 1964
Autobiographical
Roses in the rain: Young year in China, 1977
Aavik in maturation: Rich years in China
Grotid in the storm: War years in China, 1982
Other
At the border, 1948
The struggle for borders. Tanganyika and Christian Mission, 1952
The shade of the bamboo carpet, 1955
At the Kingdom Gate, 1959
The East Comes, 1962
God of Jacob, 1965
The Missionary Association in Asia, 1966
The Kingdom Comes, 1967
Everyday, 1968
The Sand by the Sea, 1968
Elisa – Safat's son, 1969
The sand was white, 1970
Window to Hong Kong, 1971
Golden Sand, 1973
Window to Japan, 1973
Wrecked silver: King Saul, 1975
The China I saw again, 1980
Years in the sun, Breakthrough in Taiwan, 1984
Hiking, 1987 (devotional)
Articles
Harald Stene Dehlin and Asbjørn Aavik:The priest with the red ads, Luther, 1979 (if Olaf Stromme) ISBN82-531-4141-6
"The mission of a track change" I:Norwegian Journal of mission, Årg. 6, No. 2 (1952)
"A Christian statesman and the world" I:Norwegian Journal of mission, Årg. 17, No. 2 (1963) (If Chiang Kai-Chek)
^"Asbjørn Aavik". Store norske leksikon. Retrieved February 1, 2018.
^Erik Kjebekk. "Asbjørn Aavik". Norsk biografisk leksikon. Retrieved February 1, 2018.
Related literature
Gunnar Bråthen:Spirit and mission: the revival of Samba Its mission field in China, 1930–1932, with particular emphasis on how Marie Monsen and Asbjørn Aavik experienced this. Unpublished student assignment, MF, 2001
Asbjørn Nordgård:The wizards: they taught me something for life and eternity. Lunde, 2005 ISBN82-520-4840-4
External links
March 13, 2023
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