Laurel “Gene” Long, R.N.

Nurse/Missionary/Mother of Abandoned Children. God gave Gene Long a burden for India through an alumnus, Norton Sterret (1933), when he spoke at a Ben Lippen Conference. She went to India in 1958 along with Jackie Liechty, R.N. (1957) under the nurses exchange program, and worked at a government hospital in New Delhi. The Lord challenged her with a ministry to abandoned children which resulted in the starting of Signal Home. She adopted and raised thirteen children. Two of her children graduated from CBC and returned to India, joining the other children as lights in a dark world. Due to health reasons she returned to the States and transferred the property over to Trans World Radio. Gene passed away in 2004.