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Work began in China in 1885. In the summer of 1884, James Hudson Taylor, founder of the China Inland Mission (CIM), addressed the Conference of the Bible Christians in London. The following year the Bible Christian Home and Foreign Missionary Society appointed the Revs S T Thorne and T G Vanstone to go to Yunnan, where the CIM had opened its first station in 1881. Thorne and Vanstone reached Yunnan in 1886 and founded a Bible Christian Mission at Tungchwan [Tongchuan], in close co-operation with the CIM. In 1887 the Revs Francis J Dymond and Samuel Pollard were dispatched with further missionaries following in subsequent years (including the first medical worker in 1895). In 1891 a new station opened at Chaotung [Zhaotong] with a hospital following in 1906.
In 1907 the Bible Christians amalgamated with the United Methodist Free Church and the Methodist New Connexion to from the United Methodist Church. The former Bible Christian mission to South-west China had 7 mission stations. However, in 1909 several churches were destroyed in a rebellion in the Yunnan Province.
In 1908 mission work was expanded to include the Nosu tribe. Work was initially started by Rev Samuel Pollard but rapidly became the responsibility of the Rev C. N. Mylne. He continued to work amongst the Nosu until 1916 by which time 22 mission stations had been opened. Attempts were also made to evangelise to the Kop'u (or Go-p'u) tribe but this proved less successful. The adult membership of the mission amongst aboriginal tribes in the Yunnan district in 1932 numbered 143 Kop'u, 532 Nosu and 4,468 Miao. |
Work began in China in 1885. In the summer of 1884, James Hudson Taylor, founder of the China Inland Mission (CIM), addressed the Conference of the Bible Christians in London. The following year the Bible Christian Home and Foreign Missionary Society appointed the Revs S T Thorne and T G Vanstone to go to Yunnan, where the CIM had opened its first station in 1881. Thorne and Vanstone reached Yunnan in 1886 and founded a Bible Christian Mission at Tungchwan [Tongchuan], in close co-operation with the CIM. In 1887 the Revs Francis J Dymond and Sa ... View more |
