Director, Global China Center; English Editor, Biographical Dictionary of Chinese Christianity, Charlottesville, Virginia, USA.
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David Howard Adeney
1911 ~ 1994
Missionary and university evangelist in China and East Asia.
Affiliations: China Inland Mission‚ InterVarsity Christian Fellowship | Locales:
Gladys May Aylward
1902 ~ 1970
British missionary in China.
Affiliation: Independent Missionary | Locale:
Baehr Conrad
1906 ~ 1997
Conrad Baehr was born September 10, 1906, in the Bronx, New York, to John and Hermine Baehr, who were German immigrants to the United States. His father was a postman, and had formerly been a member of a Presbyterian church...
Affiliation: The Christian Assembly | Locale: Taiwan
W. Malprus Belcher
1864 ~ 1929
English missionary who worked in Liangzhou, Gansu for 40 years.
Affiliation: China Inland Mission | Locale: Gansu
Lemuel Nelson Bell
1894 ~ 1973
Southern Presbyterian medical missionary in Tsingkiangpu (now Huaiyin), Jiangsu, China
Affiliation: American Southern Presbyterian Mission | Locale:
Miss Dorothy Jean Bidlake
1899 ~ 1929
American female missionary who sacrificed her youth to serve famine victims in Gansu.
Affiliation: China Inland Mission | Locale: Gansu
Theodore (“Ted”) Choy
1916 ~ 1992
Pioneer worker among Chinese students in North America; frequent traveler to China after 1979 to minister to house churches.
Affiliation: Ambassadors for Christ, Inc. | Locales: Hong Kong, United StatesChina
Samuel Dyer
1804 ~ 1843
London Missionary Society missionary remembered for his printing of Chinese characters and for his daughter Maria, who married Hudson Taylor.
Affiliation: London Missionary Society | Locales: Malaysia, Hong KongSingapore
Feng Nenggui
1865 ~
Chinese basket-maker-turned evangelist, helper to CIM missionaries
Affiliation: China Inland Mission | Locale: Ningbo
Emil Fischbacher
1903 ~ 1933
English medical missionary who devoted his life to the minority peoples of Xinjiang.
Affiliation: China Inland Mission | Locale: Xinjiang
Gao Jiancheng
1888 ~
Pioneer Chinese medical missionary in Gansu.
Affiliation: China Inland Mission | Locales: Henan, Gansu
Annie Garland
1861 ~ 1929
Australian missionary who served for thirty-nine years in Gansu and finally sacrificed her life for the people there.
Affiliation: China Inland Mission | Locale: Gansu
Karl Friedrich August Gutzlaff
1803 ~ 1851
First German Lutheran Missionary to China.
Affiliations: Netherlands Missionary Society‚ Chinese Evangelization Society | Locales:
Ji Zhiwen
1901 ~ 1985
20th-century Chinese Evangelical Protestant leader, evangelist, revivalist and philanthropist.
Affiliations: Bethel Evangelistic Band, Chinese Evangelization Society | Locales: Shanghai, Hong KongUnited States
Jiang Jieshi
1887 ~ 1975
Military leader of China; chairman of the Nationalist Party; President of the Republic of China.
Locales: China, Taiwan
Eric Henry Liddell
1902 ~ 1945
Olympic gold-medalist and Scottish missionary in China.
Affiliation: London Missionary Society | Locale:
Percy Cunningham Mather
1884 ~ 1933
Missionary pioneer of the China Inland Mission in Central Asia; linguist and translator.
Affiliation: China Inland Mission | Locales:
Robert Morrison
1782 ~ 1834
Pioneer Protestant missionary to China.
Affiliation: London Missionary Society | Locales:
Lloyd Robert Rist
1885 ~ 1929
A Canadian missionary who served faithfully in Gansu until his death.
Affiliation: China Inland Mission | Locale: Gansu
Otto F. Schoerner
1906 ~ 2008
American medical missionary, who served in Xinjiang and Gansu for 20 years; President of the Borden Memorial Hospital, Lanzhou, Gansu.
Affiliation: China Inland Mission | Locales: Xinjiang, Gansu
Song Shangjie
1901 ~ 1944
Chinese revivalist, evangelist, and author. Sung's fearless and tireless ministry in China and Southeast Asia has resulted in thousands of conversions as well as revival in the life of churches he visited.
Affiliations: Chinese Methodist Church, Bethel Worldwide Evangelistic Band | Locale: Fujian
Elisabeth (Betty) Alden Scott Stam
1906 ~ 1934
Missionary with the China Inland Mission (CIM), who served in Yingzhou City, Yingshang, and Jingde, Anhui Province until her death at Miaoshou at the age of 28.
Affiliation: China Inland Mission | Locale: Anhui
Arnold Strange
1897 ~ 1941
China Inland Mission missionary engaged in evangelism and relief work in Western China.
Affiliation: China Inland Mission | Locales: Shaanxi, Gansu
James Hudson Taylor
1832 ~ 1905
Founder and director of the China Inland Mission.
Affiliation: China Inland Mission | Locale:
Wang Laiquan
1835 ~ 1901
Chinese evangelist and pastor
Affiliation: China Inland Mission | Locales: Ningbo, Hangzhou
Wu Hongyu
1834 ~ 1919
An early well-known minister of the American Episcopal Church in China, who made a major contribution to his church and to the contextualization of Christianity in China.
Affiliation: American Episcopal Church Mission | Locale: Shanghai
Yang Qing
Dates unkown
The first Chinese pastor of the Baptist church in China, pioneer and foundation-layer.
Affiliation: American Southern Baptist Mission | Locales: Macao, GuangzhouShanghai