According to Taiwan's Overseas Radio and Television (ORTV), American missionary Dr. Doris Brougham, who was also known as Peng Meng-hui, died on August 6 at the age of 98 at MacKay Memorial Hospital in Tamsui, Taiwan, from multiple organ failure due to old age.
Brougham had served in Taiwan for 73 years. She founded the Heavenly Melody Singers, which is popular among Chinese Christians, as well as the Overseas Radio and Television organization and the English language teaching radio program Studio Classroom, both of which have had a significant impact on the Taiwanese people.
To honor Brougham, ORTV will hold the Doris Brougham Memorial Concert on September 20 in the Large Hall of the Taipei International Convention Center.
Dr. Simon Hung, chairman of ORTV, sighed with emotion as he said that after all these years of service in China, Brougham could finally reunite with her parents, with whom she parted on the Seattle pier 76 years ago. She had fulfilled her lifelong commitment to the Christian faith. Brougham was the most dedicated English teacher, and she had always been an unwavering missionary who never looked back.
Brougham was born in 1926 in Seattle, USA. At the age of 12, she decided to preach the Gospel in China. In 1948, Brougham, who was only 22 at the time, arrived in Shanghai, and in 1951 she went to Taiwan, where she began her ministry to the Taiwanese aborigines in Hualien.
In 1960, Brougham founded ORTV in Taipei, and in 1962, ORTV's English-language educational radio program Studio Classroom was launched. Through educational television programs and magazines, Studio Classroom has had a great influence on Taiwanese society.
In 1963, Brougham founded the Heavenly Melody Singers, the first Christian music group in Taiwan. The Heavenly Melody Singers produced many praise and worship albums, many of which are familiar to Chinese Christians, such as "Vision," "The Faith Journey," and "Flowers of the Field."
Now, Brougham has rested from her work in the Lord and will be buried at Yangmingshan in Taipei, a location that overlooks ORTV. The organization says on its website that "this is the testimony of the beginning and the most concrete realization of Brougham's love for the Chinese people."
- Translated by Joyce Leung
台湾救世传播协会消息：8月6日，美籍宣教士彭蒙惠女士（英文名：Doris Brougham）因年长多重器官衰竭，于台北淡水马偕医院安息主怀，享年98岁。
彭女士在台事工73年，创办了中国基督徒熟悉的天韵合唱团，以及在台具有广泛影响力的空中英语教室、救世传播协会等事工。
为了纪念彭女士，救世传播协会将于9月20日在台北国际会议中心大会堂举办“彭蒙惠纪念音乐会”。
救世传播协会董事长洪善群感慨说，彭老师终于与76年前来华，在西雅图码头一别即成诀别的父母在天上团聚，更能够面对一生拼赴的基督信仰；她是最称职的英语老师，底子里从来都是那样，义无反顾、头也不回的宣教士。
彭蒙惠女士1926年出生于美国西雅图，12岁时决志到中国传福音，1948年年仅22岁的彭女士抵达上海，1951年到台湾，最开始事奉的人群是花莲的台湾原住民。
1960年彭女士在台北成立了救世传播协会，1962年，《空中英语教室》广播教学节目开播，空中英语教室在台湾社会上有很大的影响力，主要做电视节目和杂志的教学。
1963年彭女士创办了天韵合唱团，这是在台湾第一支由基督徒组成的音乐团体。天韵合唱团出产了很多赞美诗专辑，其中很多中国基督徒耳熟能详的诗歌，例如《眼光》、《信心的旅途》、《野地的花》。
如今，彭蒙惠宣教士歇了她在主里的工，长眠于台北阳明山，这个位置正好可以俯瞰救世传播协会，救世传播协会在其官网见证说，“那是彭蒙惠老师对华人最起初的爱与最具体的落实”。
天韵合唱团创办人彭蒙惠宣教士荣归天家 享年98岁
According to Taiwan's Overseas Radio and Television (ORTV), American missionary Dr. Doris Brougham, who was also known as Peng Meng-hui, died on August 6 at the age of 98 at MacKay Memorial Hospital in Tamsui, Taiwan, from multiple organ failure due to old age.
Brougham had served in Taiwan for 73 years. She founded the Heavenly Melody Singers, which is popular among Chinese Christians, as well as the Overseas Radio and Television organization and the English language teaching radio program Studio Classroom, both of which have had a significant impact on the Taiwanese people.
To honor Brougham, ORTV will hold the Doris Brougham Memorial Concert on September 20 in the Large Hall of the Taipei International Convention Center.
Dr. Simon Hung, chairman of ORTV, sighed with emotion as he said that after all these years of service in China, Brougham could finally reunite with her parents, with whom she parted on the Seattle pier 76 years ago. She had fulfilled her lifelong commitment to the Christian faith. Brougham was the most dedicated English teacher, and she had always been an unwavering missionary who never looked back.
Brougham was born in 1926 in Seattle, USA. At the age of 12, she decided to preach the Gospel in China. In 1948, Brougham, who was only 22 at the time, arrived in Shanghai, and in 1951 she went to Taiwan, where she began her ministry to the Taiwanese aborigines in Hualien.
In 1960, Brougham founded ORTV in Taipei, and in 1962, ORTV's English-language educational radio program Studio Classroom was launched. Through educational television programs and magazines, Studio Classroom has had a great influence on Taiwanese society.
In 1963, Brougham founded the Heavenly Melody Singers, the first Christian music group in Taiwan. The Heavenly Melody Singers produced many praise and worship albums, many of which are familiar to Chinese Christians, such as "Vision," "The Faith Journey," and "Flowers of the Field."
Now, Brougham has rested from her work in the Lord and will be buried at Yangmingshan in Taipei, a location that overlooks ORTV. The organization says on its website that "this is the testimony of the beginning and the most concrete realization of Brougham's love for the Chinese people."
- Translated by Joyce Leung
Missionary Doris Brougham, Founder of Heavenly Melody Singers, Dies at 98
