In addition to the expansion of the Peniel Mission in the United States of America, and its overseas territories: Alaska and Hawaii, eventually Peniel Missions were established overseas in Africa, Bolivia (1911); China (1909)[2]; Egypt, Guatemala, India, Mexico, and the Philippines.
A separate organisation, The Peniel Missionary Society, under the control of Manie and Theodore Ferguson, was formed in 1895.
(Love Slave, 232–233) Initially, they held religious services on British gunboats and coal ships waiting to go through the Suez Canal.
She was assisted by Mrs Jennie Ussher (who served 1921–1943), a former secretary for General William Booth, founder of the Salvation Army.
(Traschel, 109–110) In 1935, Edward J. Higgins (November 26, 1864 – December 14, 1947), the recently retired third General of The Salvation Army (1929–1934), held revival meetings in the courtyard behind the Peniel School.
On 20 October 1896, the second anniversary of the opening of Peniel Hall, Mrs Anna M. Leach (who had helped pioneer the Mission at Grant Avenue in San Francisco in November 1893 and the one in Juneau, Alaska in June 1895) and Miss Rhodabaugh were commissioned to be the pioneer missionaries to India.
(CMA Report 1902, 133) [5] In 1909 Mrs Caroline P. Wallace and Miss Carrie A. Tennant of the Peniel Mission went to India to work with the Hindu Marriage Reform League (organised December 1909), an organization that opposed the practice of child brides[2] and sought to raise the legal marriage age from 12 to 16.
Albert Kato Reiton (born 7 February 1882 in Baldwin, Wisconsin) and his first wife, Edna Greer Reiton (married 15 November 1909; died January 1912), established the South China Peniel Holiness Mission (later incorporated in 1951 as the China Peniel Missionary Society 中華便以利會) in Hong Kong in December 1909.
They served at the orphanage in Shiu Hing, before moving to Shatau (now Sha Tau Kok) to work as evangelists.
On 22 November 1914 they opened the Yaumati Peniel Mission on Shanghai Street in Kowloon, Hong Kong.
[7] The Mission had ministries in Koonchung in Guangdong province, as well as in Kowloon, Shamshuipo, and Yaumati in the British Crown Colony of Hong Kong.
After the Japanese occupation of Hong Kong in 1942, the Peniel missionaries hid for 46 days, before being interned at the Stanley Internment Camp on Hong Kong island for six months before being repatriated back to the USA on 29 June 1942 - initially aboard the Asama Maru to Lourenço Marques, Portuguese East Africa (now Maputo, Mozambique).
(Hammond) After completing his education at the Pasadena College of the Church of the Nazarene in 1945, Bob Hammond started a missionary radio programme in June 1945 on KGER, a Christian radio station in Long Beach, California to raise funds for the ministry in China and throughout Asia.
The mission is involved in evangelism, church planting, relief work, orphanages, leprosaria, Sunday School, the Peniel Theological College and Seminary (based in Busan, South Korea, and Peniel High School of the Arts (also located in Busan).
After several years in Argentina and Peru, Chiriotto immigrated to Los Angeles, California, where he became wealthy, and was converted to the Christian faith.
However, the tireless colporteur persisted in visiting him, and one day after a conversation that went on for several hours, Antonio burst into tears.
After some years, probably about 1906, Chiriotto felt that the Lord was calling him to begin a missionary work in Argentina, where he had first gone after emigrating from Italy.
They made sure Antonio Chiriotto's money was used for the purchase of a farm with the objective of obtaining the conversion and the education of the Indians.
The Huatajata (later spelled Guatajata) Farm (soon renamed Peniel Hall), located on the northeast shore of Lake Titicaca, about 105 km northwest of La Paz, was bought, With the land came 48 heads of families and 275 serfs.
Here it was possible to meet the desires and wishes of Antonio Chiriotto, to give the indigenous people education and a possible Christian experience.
The farm itself, a 1,000-acre former hacienda on which vegetables and grain were cultivated and sheep herding was practiced, possessed great agricultural potential.
At the time in which the Huatajata farm was acquired, the Indians were the burden-bearers—the human pack-animals of priests, politicians, and property-owners—who, in Bolivia, enjoyed few rights and social privileges.
Samuel Inman indicates that the reasons for the difficulties of this Mission included maladministration by missionaries, loss of Government support and sponsorship, inadequate financing, and leadership disagreements.
The trustees seem not to have managed their responsibilities very well; difficulties have come up between them and the directors ; the Government has become dissatisfied with the small amount of educational work done and has withdrawn its support.
Most money was wasted in buying a motor-boat, which proved to be unusable ; the funds destined for school work are being paid out in interest for a large amount of land, much of which is not usable.