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32-529: Frank A. Keller, a missionary with the China Inland Mission , began evangelistic work among the houseboats of Hunan in 1909. He saw the need to train Chinese evangelists and, with the financial support of the brothers Lyman and Milton Stewart , who helped establish Biola and funded the publication of The Fundamentals , established Hunan Bible Institute. From its foundations, it was envisioned to support

64-681: A leprosy control programme. Many of the patients were refugees. In the Philippines, community development programs were launched. Alcoholic rehabilitation began in Japan, and rehabilitation work among prostitutes was begun in Taipei and Bangkok . In 1980, Hudson Taylor's great grandson James Hudson Taylor III was appointed General Director for the mission work. According to Taylor in 1989, "The fellowship has no desire to re-establish itself there (in China) in

96-735: A comfortable life in America to respond to the call for workers with the Muslims of northwest China. He died in Egypt while still in training. A musician and an engineer named James O. Fraser was the first to bring the Gospel message to the Lisu tribes of Yunnan in southwest China. This resulted in phenomenal church growth among the various tribes in the area that has endured to the 21st century. The Warlord period brought widespread lawlessness to China and missionary work

128-564: A core of English Dissenters and their famous academies . The CIM headquarters sits between two other listed buildings on the green , Newington Green Unitarian Church (1708), and the oldest brick terrace in London, 52-55 the Green, where the notable minister Richard Price lived. The building was refurbished by Haworth Tompkins . Now known as Alliance House, it is run by Sanctuary Students as accommodation for City University . The papers of

160-410: A country to pioneer work, and Mr. Stott often referred with gratitude to Mr. Taylor's acceptance of him. When asked why he, with only one leg, should think of going to China, his remark was, " I do not see those with two legs going, so I must." " His wife and his followers learnt to handle his manner which could be direct. He increasingly came into conflict with Hudson Taylor and offered to resign in

192-477: A protest letter. The CIM stopped sending recruits to his station and eventually they "let him go". Stott found out that he had cancer and he and Grace returned to Scotland. Stott died at William Thomas Berger 's house on April 21, 1889 on Easter morning, at half-past six in Cannes . He and his wife had returned from China after their mission was destroyed by rioters in 1884. Grace returned to China and re-established

224-614: A serious knee injury at the age of nineteen, a subsequent leg amputation and evangelical Christian conversion, he became a schoolmaster and active member of the Free Church of Scotland . In early 1865, Stott learnt that James Hudson Taylor was looking to recruit pioneer missionaries for his non-denominational China Inland Mission . Stott was duly hired, provided with a new artificial leg and set sail for China on October 4, 1865. Arriving in Shanghai on February 6, 1866, Stott quickly relocated to

256-576: A thoroughly Chinese style of architecture." Hudson Taylor made the first decision to found the China Inland Mission at Brighton , England during his first furlough from China . Like his missionary forebear Karl Gützlaff and contemporary William Chalmers Burns , Taylor was convinced that Chinese clothing should be worn when engaged in missionary work in inland China. On 3 October 1865, Taylor sent John and Anne Stevenson and George Stott to China, where they arrived on February 6, 1866. Including

288-574: Is our refuge and strength, A very present help in trouble. Therefore we will not fear…. The Lord of Hosts is with us, The God of Jacob is our refuge. (Psalm 46:1,7) Despite the hardships, the number of Christians in China increased from 100,000 in early 1900s to 700,000 by 1950. The Chinese church was beginning to develop into an indigenous movement, with the assistance from key leaders such as John Sung , Wang Ming-Dao , Watchman Nee and Andrew Gih . Phyllis Thompson wrote that between 1949 and 1952 in

320-518: The Lammermuir Party . This journey took 4 months. In 1872, the China Inland Mission's London council was formed. In 1875, it began to evangelise China systematically. Taylor requested 18 missionaries from God for the nine provinces which were still unreached. In 1881, he requested a further 70 missionaries, and, in 1886, 100 missionaries. In 1887 " The Hundred missionaries " were sent to China. Taylor travelled across several continents to recruit for

352-508: The China Inland Mission ) is an international and interdenominational Evangelical Christian missionary society with an international centre in Singapore . It was founded in Britain by Hudson Taylor on 25 June 1865. The non-sectarian China Inland Mission was founded on principles of faith and prayer founded by James Hudson Taylor in 1865. From the beginning it recruited missionaries from

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384-610: The 1990s. 1. Priority is given to unreached inland provinces while seeking to evangelize the whole of China. 2. No solicitation of finance, or indebtedness; looking to God alone; pooling support in life of corporate faith 3. Identification with Chinese by wearing Chinese dress and queue (pigtail), worshipping in Chinese houses 4. Indigenization through training Chinese co-workers in self-governing, self-supporting and self-propagating principles 5. Recruitment of missionaries not based on education or ecclesiastical ordination, but spiritual qualification; deployment of single women in

416-657: The Bible was translated, and basic theological education was given to neglected tribal groups. The publication and distribution of Christian literature were prioritized among both the rural tribes people and the urban working classes and students. The goal remained for every community to have a church in East Asia and thereby the Gospel would be preached "to every creature". The proclamation of the Christian message also included medical work. Three hospitals were opened in rural Thailand as well as

448-537: The Board of Founders looked to establish another missionary, Charles Roberts, as his replacement. In 1936, Chinese staff established their own Board of Directors and elected a Chinese president. But the Board of Founders dismissed this group and asked Keller to stay and establish a new committee that was dominated by foreign missionaries. By September 1936, Hunan Bible Institute lost most of its Chinese staff. When Keller retired in 1937, Roberts became its new superintendent and led

480-705: The China Inland Mission are held by SOAS Archives , the Billy Graham Center for Evangelism at Wheaton College [1] , the OMF International Center in Singapore [2] , the Hong Kong Baptist University, and several regional offices. George Stott (missionary) George Stott (13 April 1835 – 21 April 1889) was a British Protestant Christian missionary to China with the China Inland Mission . Despite physical disabilities, Stott

512-511: The China Inland Mission. By the end of the nineteenth century, the CIM was well known around the world. Richard Lovett wrote about the practices of the missionaries in 1899. He noted that they were humble and not from the upper classes and they were having good success because they were willing to "rough it". That year Henrietta Soltau set up a training home for women missionaries in North London. She

544-592: The Japanese invaded China in Second Sino-Japanese War , the China Inland Mission moved its headquarters upstream the Yangzi River to Chongqing . Many missionaries were put into concentration camps, such as Weifang , which lasted until the end of the war. The entire Chefoo School run by the mission at Yantai was imprisoned at a concentration camp. As the children and teachers were marched off they sang: God

576-622: The Lord graciously saved his soul. So far he had been careless and indifferent to the love of God in Christ Jesus, but now, in his helpless condition, and what seemed his ruined future, how precious that love became! After his recovery he began to teach in a school, and had been thus employed several years when he first heard of China's needs through a friend, who himself was going out. " "In accepting Mr. Stott for mission work, Hudson Taylor manifested faith, for no Society would have sent an amputee to such

608-487: The five missionaries previously sent to Ningbo - James Joseph Meadows , Jean Notman, Stephen Paul Barchet, and George and Anne Crombie, these eight were already in China when Taylor returned in 1866. On 26 May of that year, Taylor accompanied the largest group of missionaries that had ever sailed to China on the Lammermuir . There were 16 missionaries as well as Hudson, his wife, Maria and their 4 children that became known as

640-410: The form it used to have", but he also affirmed that "OMF is still deeply committed to the Chinese people. We can never forget that we came into existence as the China Inland Mission. Ever since our ‘reluctant exodus’ we have called the church worldwide to prayer for our brothers and sisters in China, and to share in proclaiming the gospel and nurturing millions of new believers through radio broadcasts and

672-726: The immediate aftermath of the Chinese Communist Revolution , there was a "reluctant exodus" of all of the members of the China Inland Mission. The leaders met at Bournemouth , England to discuss the situation and the decision was made to redeploy all of the missionaries into the rest of East Asia. Headquarters were moved to Singapore, and work commenced in Japan , Taiwan , Hong Kong , the Philippines , Thailand , Malaysia , Singapore , Vietnam , Cambodia , Laos and Indonesia . In addition to reducing some languages to written form,

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704-406: The indigenous Chinese church. The curriculum was designed to develop Chinese evangelists, with training that was Bible-centered and Evangelism-driven. Its faculty members included influential Chinese such as Marcus Cheng , Cheng Jigui, and Li Qiron, and in 1931, 12 of the 16 faculty and staff were Chinese. Despite the importance of Chinese leadership, when Keller was due to retire as superintendent,

736-479: The institute through the Second Sino-Japanese War . The Hunan Bible Institute ultimately shut its doors after it was confiscated by Communist authorities in 1952. After the normalization of Sino-American relations in the late-1970s, Biola received $ 180,000 compensation for its properties, which helped establish Biola's School of Intercultural Studies in 1983. China Inland Mission OMF International (formerly Overseas Missionary Fellowship and before 1964

768-456: The interior and Christian professionals 6. Interdenominational-International Membership 7. Headquarters on the field, director rule; leaders and workers serving shoulder to shoulder "We wish to see churches and Christian Chinese presided over by pastors and officers of their own countrymen, worshipping the true God in the land of their fathers, in the costume of their fathers, in their own tongue wherein they were born, and in edifices of

800-650: The meekness of Christ to the Chinese. In the same year, Dixon Edward Hoste was appointed to the directorship of the mission. The early 1900s saw great expansion of missionary activity in China following the Boxer Rebellion, during the Revolution of 1912 and the establishment of the Chinese Republic. William Whiting Borden , wealthy heir of the Borden, Inc. family, who graduated from Yale University in 1909, left behind

832-417: The population. His wife Grace Ciggie wrote of his early life: "Mr. Stott had been brought up to farm work, but when he was about nineteen years of age he slipped on the road and knocked his knee against a stone. This simple accident resulted in white swelling, which, two years later, necessitated the amputation of the left leg. For nine months he lay a helpless invalid, and it was during this time that

864-624: The port city of Wenzhou in Zhejiang province, where Christian teaching had been previously unknown. The oldest church in the city, Chengxi Christian Church , still stands as a testimony to his work. As a result of the ongoing influence brought there by the Stotts and others, Wenzhou is known in China as the “Jerusalem of the East” because in the entire Wenzhou Municipality, which has 6 million inhabitants, there are more than 600,000 evangelical Protestants – 10% of

896-502: The provision of Bibles and Christian literature." Dr. Patrick Fung, a Chinese Christian appointed in 2006, is the first Asian to lead the mission. The work continues to the present day. The original headquarter was located at Newington Green in North London . By the late 19th century, when the CIM building was commissioned, what was once a rural village had long been subsumed into the metropolis. Newington Green had grown up around

928-533: The working class as well as single women. The original goal of the mission that began dedicated to China has grown to include bringing the Gospel to East Asia. Following the departure of all foreign workers in the early 1950s, the China Inland Mission redirected its missionaries to other parts of East Asia. The name was changed to the Overseas Missionary Fellowship in 1964, and then to the current name in

960-580: Was a highly effective mission leader. In China he has been credited, alongside William Edward Soothill , for laying the groundwork for the large number of Christian adherents in Wenzhou , Zhejiang Province. Although his wife, Grace Stott worked with him and led the mission for twenty years after his death. Born in Belhelvie , Aberdeenshire, Scotland, the son of John Stott, a crofter , and his wife, Jane Anderson. Stott initially worked in agriculture, but due to

992-470: Was often dangerous or deadly. John and Betty Stam were a young couple who were murdered in 1934 by Communist soldiers. Their biography, "The Triumph of John and Betty Stam", inspired a generation of missionaries to follow in the same steps of service despite the trials of war and persecution that raged in China in the 1930s and 1940s. The Japanese invasion further complicated efforts as the Japanese distrusted anyone with British or American nationalities. When

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1024-561: Was secretary of the ladies' council of the CIM and hundreds were trained there. In 1900, attacks took place across China in connection with the Boxer Rebellion which targeted Christians and foreigners. The China Inland Mission lost more members than any other agency: 58 adults and 21 children were killed. However, in 1901, when the allied nations were demanding compensation from the Chinese government, Hudson Taylor refused to accept payment for loss of property or life in order to demonstrate

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