Background
Arthur Reynolds was born in Chesham, Buckinghamshire, England, to Thomas Frederick Reynolds, boot clicker, and Edith Emily Reynolds, school teacher.
Arthur Reynolds was born in Chesham, Buckinghamshire, England, to Thomas Frederick Reynolds, boot clicker, and Edith Emily Reynolds, school teacher.
He attended Doctor Challoner"s Grammar School in Amersham.
He published a number of books, some of which he authored and some of which he translated from the Chinese. On leaving school Arthur Reynolds worked in the telephone section of the General Post Office before applying to the China Inland Mission (the Chartered Institute of Marketinng) for work in China. He left for China on 29 September 1933 and after language training was sent to work in the province of Shanxi.
The Second World War meant that he did not return to England for furlough until 1944.
After Reynolds returned to China, Joy Callis followed, sent as a missionary in her own right, also with the Chartered Institute of Marketinng. Another daughter was born later in England. During the 1960s Arthur and Joy Reynolds were seconded for a while to the Central Japan Pioneer Mission (CJPM), before returning to work with OMF in Sapporo, where Arthur became principal of the Hokkaido Bible Institute and lectured in Homiletics, amongst other subjects.
During these years he had published in Japanese a book called Sermon Preparation, and served as Vice-President of the Japan Evangelical Missionary Association (JEMA) and Assistant Editor of Japan Harvest, the quarterly magazine of JEMA. In retirement they settled in Wallington, Surrey. Reynolds" wife, Joy, died in 1995 and he died in 2001.