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Upon his arrival, Sites chose to live in a countryside hamlet among native villagers to experience the rural life of the Chinese. During his missionary life in China, Sites met with many obstacles: one day while carrying out the reconstruction work of the local church in Yanping, he was brutally beaten by an enraged mob, who left a deep scar on ...
She was appointed a Chinese missionary at the age of 22. She went to Fuzhou in 1884, and was married to Rev. William N. Brewster (蒲鲁士) in 1890. The couple established headquarters in Xinghua Prefecture (today Putian) as the first foreign missionaries there. The Christian community they founded had 200 churches and more than 40,000 members ...
Rudolf Alfred Bosshardt (1 January 1897 – 6 November 1993) was a British-Swiss Protestant Christian missionary in Guizhou, China. He served with the China Inland Mission (CIM). He was one of two Europeans who were compelled to accompany the soldiers of the Red Army on the Long March .
In 1858, Taylor married Maria Jane Dyer, the orphaned daughter of the Reverend Samuel Dyer of the London Missionary Society, who had been a pioneer missionary to the Chinese in Penang, Malaysia. [12] Hudson met Maria in Ningbo where she lived and worked at a school for girls which was run by Mary Ann Aldersey , one of the first female ...
Emily Susan Hartwell (Chinese: 夏咏美; Pinyin: Xià Yǒngměi; Foochow Romanized: Hâ Īng-mī; April 16, 1859 – October 2, 1951) was a Congregational Christian educational missionary and philanthropist in Fuzhou, China under the American Board of Foreign Missions.
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.
Mary Ann Aldersey (simplified Chinese: 艾迪绥; traditional Chinese: 艾迪綏, 24 June 1797 – 1868) was the first Christian missionary woman (married or single) to serve in China proper (excluding Macau & Hong Kong, where Henrietta Shuck had been working earlier).
After receiving his formal theological education in Xiamen, [1] Tan began life as a missionary in 1856. [6] At the request of Thomas McKenzie Fraser, a Free Church of Scotland minister, [7] Tan moved to Singapore to become the Chinese catechist of the recently-established Saint Andrew's Church Mission, which was supported by both Presbyterian and Anglican missionaries.