Morris G WatkinsMorris Watkins was born in 1923 and grew up in the Los Angeles area. He graduated from Concordia Teacher's College in Seward, Nebraska. He taught in Lutheran schools in Iowa and Nebraska before receiving a call to Nigeria, where he taught in the Luthran High School and the Lutheran Teacher Training Center. In 1953 the family returned to California, where he worked as a teacher and principal. He then attended Concordia Theological Seminary in Springfield, Illinois, graduating in 1959, and the family returned to Nigeria where he started the Lutheran Bible Institute in Ogaja Province and served as a principal there for three years. After further study during furlough in 1962, he became Director of Literature and Literacy for the Lutheran Church in Nigeria.