page_title: Hobart Baumann Amstutz
section_title: Missionary service
hierarchical_section_title: Hobart Baumann Amstutz / Missionary service
caption_attribution_description: English: Rev. Dr. Hobart Baumann Amstutz and Rev Tyler Thompson, pastors of Wesley Methodist Church, outside their hut which also served as a religious library at Sime Road Camp, Singapore, where they were interned during World War II.
context_page_description: Hobart Baumann Amstutz was a bishop of the American Methodist Church and the United Methodist Church, elected in 1956.
context_section_description: Rev. Amstutz served as a missionary in South East Asia beginning in 1926.  For many years, he was pastor of the Wesley Methodist Church in Singapore.  In 1942, he was imprisoned by the Japanese, spending three and a half years in a prison camp. From 1956 to 1964, he served as elected Methodist Bishop for Southeast Asia (Singapore, Malaysia, Indonesia, and Burma) and also served as founding President of Trinity College in Singapore. Shortly after retirement, he was called to be Methodist Bishop of Pakistan from 1964 to 1968, where he succeeded in creating the Church of Pakistan, an amalgamation of four Protestant churches.
caption: Amstutz and Rev. Tyler Thomson, pastors of Wesley Methodist Church, outside their hut which also served as a religious library at Sime Road Camp, Singapore, where they were interned during World War II
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