Elsie Anderson visited Korea in 1963 on a dispatch to the United Presbyterian Church in the U.S.A. and worked as a medical secretary at Dongsan Christian Hospital. In 1962, she was impressed by the mission report of Director Howard Moffett at the Fourth Presbyterian Church in Chicago and expressed her intention to volunteer for a year, and Moffett willingly welcomed Anderson, who had lived as a secretary for life.

She arrived in Daegu in the spring of 1963 and wrote letters to American sponsors, churches, and organizations as an English secretary to director Moffett. She always considered her life as a joy of service and a joy of a worthy cause for Christ and mankind, and her reward was an opportunity to live in a foreign land, to see beautiful scenery all year round, to learn their culture and customs, and to join and play a role in the development of a wonderful medical center in Daegu.

She volunteered for the first time from 1963 to 1964 at Dongsan Christian Hospital and revisit Korea for two years in 1970.

Elsie Anderson as Medical Secretary