- Wang Laijun
Wang Laijun (王来俊) was a Chinese
Protestant Christian pastor andmissionary inHangzhou ,Zhejiang ,China in the late 1800s. He was converted to Christianity inNingbo under the ministry ofJames Hudson Taylor before the founding of theChina Inland Mission . He accompanied the Taylor family toLondon ,England in1860 as a helper and language tutor for new missionaries. He also assisted Taylor andFrederick Foster Gough in the revision of theNingbo dialect New Testament in Romanized colloquial.While in England, Wang met the famous London
Baptist preacher,Charles Spurgeon , accompanied by Taylor. Together they influenced Spurgeon to promote the cause of missionary work in China with his sermons and writings.Taylor also brought Wang to meet the Bristol orphanage founder
George Muller who would later fund one third of the China Inland Mission budget in the following years of 1866-1871.After returning to China he was appointed pastor of the church in Hangzhou begun by the China Inland Mission in 1866-1867. He served as a pastor for 40 years.
Further reading
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Historical Bibliography of the China Inland Mission External links
* [http://www.wholesomewords.org/biography/biorptaylor.html Christian Biography Resources]
* [http://www.omf.org/ Overseas Missionary Fellowship]
* [http://www.bdcconline.net/en/stories/w/wang-laijun.php Biographical Dictionary of Chinese Christianity]
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