Rev. and Mrs. Young were appointed missionaries in June 1931 and designated to the Burma-China border. The work had been started by Vincent’s father, Rev. William M. Young, who spent 40 years in mission work in Burma. M. Vincent Young was born in Burma and received his training at the Bible Institute of Los Angeles and at Berkeley Baptist Divinity School, 1929-1931. Mrs. Young was a graduate of the University of Redlands, 1929, and attended the University of California and the Berkeley Baptist Divinity School. The Youngs married in 1930. During the Japanese invasion, Mrs. Young returned to the United States with their three children and Mr. Young served as a civilian employee of the American Army in India and Burma. He, James Telford and five British officers escaped from Burma by a 500-mile trek over the mountains. In 1946, the Youngs returned to Burma and in 1951, Mr. Vincent baptized his daughter in the same river where his father had baptized him. Vincent translated a hymnbook into Wa and a New Testament into Lahu. The Youngs resigned in 1958.