Dick Hillis

Charles Richard "Dick" Hillis (1913 - 2005) was an American Protestant Christian missionary to China, author and founder of "Formosa Crusades", later "Orient Crusades", now "One Challenge International". Hillis was born an American citizen in Victoria, British Columbia, Canada, before the family moved to Monroe, Washington. Hillis was an adventurer. At the age of thirteen in 1926, Dick attended evangelistic meetings at the little Methodist church in town, where his mother served as chairman of the church’s missionary committee. It was during these meetings where Dr. George Bennard, (the author of the gospel hymn The Old Rugged Cross) was the guest speaker, that young Dick Hillis was called to go to China as a missionary. He trained for...