B L II Turner

B.L. (Lee) Turner graduated from San Jose Bible College with a Bachelor of Theology Degree in 1947. In 1956, after having served nine-and-one-half years in evangelistic Christian ministry at Vancouver, Washington, he entered the graduate school of the University of Pennsylvania, where in 1959 he completed his M.A. Degree in South Asia Regional Studies. His thesis was "A Contribution to the English Historical Cartography of Iran in the Early Islamic Period". Following the completion of his...See more

B.L. (Lee) Turner graduated from San Jose Bible College with a Bachelor of Theology Degree in 1947. In 1956, after having served nine-and-one-half years in evangelistic Christian ministry at Vancouver, Washington, he entered the graduate school of the University of Pennsylvania, where in 1959 he completed his M.A. Degree in South Asia Regional Studies. His thesis was "A Contribution to the English Historical Cartography of Iran in the Early Islamic Period". Following the completion of his studies at the University of Pennsylvania, he and his family sailed to Pakistan in August 1960 where they spent the next fifteen years in Christian evangelism, both urban and rural. During the early part of his stay in Pakistan, Lee also studied history and political science at the University of the Punjab in Lahore, Pakistan. While living in Pakistan, Lee made several study and preaching trips to various sites throughout much of India. Also, due to a war between India and Pakistan in 1971, he and his family spent six months in Afghanistan during which he became acquainted with further aspects of that country's history and geography. As a board member of a U.S. Christian relief organization, in Africa he visited Sudan and Egypt several times, and in India he traveled to war-torn Imphal to help implement relief projects. Toward the end of 1975, the Turners were no longer allowed to renew their visas and consequently had to terminate their residential mission work in Pakistan. On their way back to America, Lee and his youngest son, traveling by Jeep, pursued a six-month study-tour of the Middle East which included Afghanistan, Iran, Turkey, Jordan and Syria. During that tour Lee sent a series of letters home entitled "Travel Letters From The Center Arena of History". Since 1975, Lee has made 22 trips back to Pakistan and several additional trips to India. In 1971, as part of the Turners' mission outreach to the Urdu-speaking part of the Muslim world, they began shortwave Gospel broadcasts over the facilities of Far East Broadcasting Association, then situated in the Seychelles Islands. Those broadcasts have continued uninterruptedly and go out under the name of Awaz-e-Haqq (The Voice of Truth). That broadcast work has been expanded and is now carried on under the name of Key Communications, directed by Lee Turner. For additional information, visit www.keycom.org. See less