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The first congregation was set up in Melbourne in 1986 by Rev James Ha, a missionary of the Sarawak Chinese Annual Conference. [4] It was originally known as the Methodist Church in Australia but disagreement rose over its name with the Uniting Church in Australia, with the latter refusing to allow its entry into the World Methodist Council.
The first Chinese churches arose out of the gold rush of the 1860s in Victoria, during which numbers of migrants travelled to Australia to make their fortune.The Chinese Presbyterian Church can trace its foundation to the Presbyterian Chinese Mission formed by the Presbyterian Church of New South Wales as Sydney became an increasingly important centre for Chinese immigrants.
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 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 Presbyterian Church of Australia's missionary organisation is the Australia Presbyterian World Mission. [9] The organisation has more than 170 cross-cultural missionaries. The Presbyterian Church of Australia has established Arabic , Chinese , Cook Islands , Indonesian, Japanese, Korean, Samoan and Sudanese congregations, as well as a deaf ...
Chinese Coordination Centre of World Evangelization or CCCOWE (Chinese: 世界華人福音運動; pinyin: Shìjiè Huárén Fúyīn Yùndòng) is an international organization of Overseas Chinese Christian churches that was founded on 1976.
The True Jesus Church (TJC) is a non-denominational Christian Church that originated in Beijing, China, during the Pentecostal movement in the early twentieth century. [3] The True Jesus Church is currently one of the largest Christian groups in China and Taiwan, [4] as well as one of the largest independent churches in the world.
Robert Alexander Jaffray (1873 – July 29, 1945) was a missionary to China, Indonesia and several other countries, with The Christian & Missionary Alliance, who served as the founding principal of the Alliance Bible Seminary, in Hong Kong, and principal contributor and editor of the Chinese language Bible Magazine.
The modern ecumenical movement began to take shape at the end of the 19th century. Initiatives among students and between church mission agencies led the way. In Australia these included the Australian Student Christian Movement, formed in 1896, and the National Missionary Council, created in 1926.