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OMF International (formerly Overseas Missionary Fellowship and before 1964 the China Inland Mission) is an international and interdenominational Evangelical Christian missionary society with an international centre in Singapore.
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.
The China Inland Mission was the last Protestant missionary society to leave China. In 1900 there were an estimated 100,000 Protestants in China. By 1950 the number had increased to 700,000, but still far less than one percent of the total Chinese population.
The Chefoo Girls' School circa 1893. The Chefoo School (traditional Chinese: 芝罘學校; simplified Chinese: 芝罘学校; pinyin: Zhīfú Xuéxiào; Wade–Giles: Chih-fu Hsüeh-hsiao), also known as Protestant Collegiate School or China Inland Mission School, was a Christian boarding school established in 1881 by the China Inland Mission—under James Hudson Taylor—at Chefoo (), in ...
In early 1866 Taylor published the first edition of the Occasional Paper of the China Inland Mission which later became China's Millions. The following summary by Taylor came to be held as the core values of the CIM in what came to be a classic description of future faith missions: Object. The China Inland Mission was formed under a deep sense ...
Central China Religious Tract Society 1876 China Baptist Publication Society: 1903 China Inland Mission: 1862 China Missionary Alliance: 1901 China Tract Society: 1903 Chinese Evangelization Society 1853 Chinese Home Missionary Society: Chinese Tract Society: 1878 Christian and Missionary Alliance: 1890 Christian Catholic Church in Zion [1] 1903
China’s Spiritual Need and Claims was a prime recruitment tool for the newly begun China Inland Mission, but it also influenced men and women to apply for service with other mission agencies. Taylor compiled the book at the urging of his pastor, William Garrett Lewis , of Westbourne Grove Church , who thought that the topic was too weighty ...
Alfred James Broomhall (6 December 1911 – 11 May 1994), also known as Anthony James Broomhall, [1] or A. J. Broomhall, was a British Baptist Christian medical missionary to China, and author and historian of the China Inland Mission (renamed as Overseas Missionary Fellowship in 1964, known today as OMF International based in Singapore).