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Albert Andersson (8 February 1865 – 11 March 1915) was a Swedish missionary to Chinese Turkestan (modern day Xinjiang) with the Mission Covenant Church of Sweden. He also worked in Northern China with the Fransonska Mission.
This is a list of notable Protestant missionaries in China by agency. Beginning with the arrival of Robert Morrison in 1807 and ending in 1953 with the departure of Arthur Matthews and Dr. Rupert Clark of the China Inland Mission, thousands of foreign Protestant missionaries and their families, lived and worked in China to spread Christianity, establish schools, and work as medical missionaries.
For Robert Morrison and the first missionaries who followed him, life in China consisted of being confined to Portuguese Macao and the Thirteen Factories trading ghetto in Guangzhou (then known as "Canton") with only the reluctant support of the East India Company and confronting opposition from the Chinese government and from the Jesuits who had been established in China for more than a century.
Betty Stam grew up in Tsingtao (today called Qingdao), a city on the east coast of China, where her father, Charles Scott, was a missionary. [3] In 1926, Betty returned to the United States to attend college. While a student at Moody Bible Institute in Chicago she met John Stam, who was also a student at Moody. Betty returned to China in 1931.
Protestant Christianity did not arrive in China until Robert Morrison of the London Missionary Society began work in 1807 at Macau. Under the "fundamental laws" of China, one section is titled "Wizards, Witches, and all Superstitions, prohibited." The Jiaqing Emperor in 1814 AD added a sixth clause in this section with reference to Christianity.
London Missionary Society: 1807 Lutheran Free Church Mission: 1917 Lutheran Brethren Mission: 1903 Kiel China Mission 1897 Kiangshi-Hunan Tract Press 1903 Kiao-chau Swedish Baptist Mission Macao Christian College in China Medical Missionary Society of China: 1838 Methodist New Connexion: 1860 Methodist Episcopal Church South USA: 1902 Methodist ...
China Centenary Missionary Conference; China Martyrs of 1900; China's Spiritual Need and Claims; Chinese Evangelisation Society; The Chinese Union; The Christian Occupation of China; Church Missionary Society in China; Church of England Zenana Missionary Society
B. Magnus Bäcklund; H. A. Baker; Dyer Ball; Frederick W. Baller; Harold Balme; Margaret E. Barber; Thomas John Barnardo; Miner Searle Bates; Harlan Page Beach