Born 2 November 1893 to Henry and Elizabeth Wiens Lohrenz, John H. Lohrenz was a missionary educator and writer in India for 37 years (1920-1957). A graduate of Tabor College, with postgraduate studies at Bluffton College and Kansas City Baptist Theological Seminary, he married Maria Klaassen of Hillsboro, Kansas on 6 June 1918, and was ordained for missionary service under Mennonite Brethren on 9 May 1920. His missionary activities at Nagarkurnool, Kalvakurthy, Shamshabad, and Hughstown in Hyderabad State consisted of administration, evangelism, and particularly Bible school instruction and production of Telugu literature. Besides writing short biographies of Mrs. Maria Lohrenz, John H. Voth, John H. Pankratz, Daniel F. Bergthold, John A. Wiebe, and his brother H. W. Lohrenz, in 1950 he published The Mennonite Brethren Church, a history and handbook covering 1860 to 1948. In 1964 a series of Bible lessons titled The Doctrinal Teachings of the Bible, was published in India and translated into Telugu and Marathi. Following the death of his wife in 1962, he married Susie Richert of Dinuba, California in 1963. Lohrenz died 5 March 1971 at Fresno, California.    

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