150 Years On – Are We Still Needed?
According to Rollin Grams of Gordon Conwell Theological Seminary, ‘most mission agencies have lost the vision of mission.’ After 150 years of engagement in mission,...
Category Archives: 2015-01 150 Years of Innovation (Jan – April 2015)
Rooted in Revival
The Second Evangelical Awakening (1859–1862) had a deep and lasting impact on the Church in the UK and Ireland, yet today it seems largely forgotten....
Terror and Glory – The Boxer Rebellion
One of the saddest cases was that of Chao-hsi-mao, aged 30, his mother, 59, sister 36 and wife, only 19 years old. In July 1900...
The Jerusalem of China
Today throughout China the city of Wenzhou has became known as the ‘Jerusalem of China’; it is home to well over a thousand churches, and...
Retrospect and Prospect: Nomads and Neighbours
From the very beginning, the China Inland Mission (now OMF International) has had a passion for unreached places, a passion to obey God and to...
A Faithful Investment
A strange sight drew curious eyes in London’s fashionable Bayswater, one cold November morning in 1860. An Oriental gentleman, accompanied by what appeared to be...
Innovative, Indigenous and Inclusive
Hudson Taylor’s story is an inspiring and well-documented one. As a young man he had become burdened for the lost souls in China. At the...