A Resilient Faith

After graduating from Franklin College in Indiana, Goldie Nicholson taught for two years at Hartshorn College in Virginia. She spent seven years as a missionary in Japan under the WABFMS, returning to the United States in 1941 and began work at the Japanese Christian Center in Sacramento, California. Unable to gain access to the Tule Lake Relocation Center as a “religious worker,” she took a job as a teacher in 1942-43. While there, she connected students and others wanting work releases to John Thomas at the ABHMS who aided their relocation. In 1943 she began work at the Cleveland Hostel aid relocating Japanese Americans in finding work and housing.