The Reverend V.W. Peters Collection consists principally of correspondence from Dr. Victor Wellington Peters to his parents while he was a missionary in Korea from 1928 to 1940.
Dr. Victor Wellington Peters was born September 29, 1902 in Kansas City, Missouri, and died August 12, 2012. Attended UCLA and USC -- B.A., 1924; Princeton Seminary, 1924-1928. Missionary to Korea, August 29, 1928 - January 1941. Married February 12, 1938 Hahn Heung Bok in Kimhwa church, Korea. Four children, 8 grandchildren, 24 great-grandchildren, 2 great-great-grandchildren. Accomplished speaker, preacher, writer, artist, teacher who continued to minister to and inspire the Korean people. Associate pastor and teacher at Los Angeles, California churches from 1941-1982: Korean Methodist Church, Trinity Methodist Church, First Church of the Nazarene; 1959-1967 taught in Azusa Pacific University; and 1999-2004 mentored Korean doctoral students at Fuller Theological Seminary.