Anne (Antoinette Clark) Wire teaches New Testament at San Francisco Theological Seminary in San Anselmo and at the Graduate Theological Union in Berkeley, California.
Hugh Wire, after working several decades with councils of churches, has been consulting with congregations and ecumenical organizations on carrying out their mission in changed circumstances.
We are also grandparents and active in Presbyterian congregations in the San Francisco Bay Area, Calvary Presbyterian Church in Berkeley, and Beacon Presbyterian Fellowshp in Oakland..
Family roots in China are deep for Anne where she and her two
sisters were born and raised.
Anne?s parents, William Harold Clark and Antoinette Black, met in Nanjing in 1925 when both had arrived as missionaries and were taking Chinese. Five years later they were engaged at a missionary retreat in Stony Point, New York, sitting on the bench pictured to the left.
Married in the United States they returned to build their family and ministry over a 20 period in Kunming, in southwest China .
In the mid 1940s Dr. Clark oversaw the building of a middle school in Kunming with gifts from US and British Protestant churches. In 1994 during a visit to Kunming by some of their descendants the couple were honored by former students and provincial educational and politcal leaders as friends in China's educational development.
While in China during 2001-2002 Anne expects to continue to learn how Christian faith is transmitted from generation to another from one cultural context to another as she works with students studying for ministry and as she continues to visit congregations in rural areas and listen to the songs that the people, themselves, have composed.
Hugh expects that becoming absorbed in a new task in a new culture will
give him insights into people, organizations, and society that he will
try apply in his connections with people, organizations, and social trends
when he returns home to California..