Modern Southern Baptist Church Of Activities In Shandong

With the development of the Second Great Awakening, The Gospel of Christ spread all over the world. China with a long history was the first and most important area for the Gospel. And when the Second Opium War ended, pending the ratification of the Treaty of Tientsin, which opened, among others, the ports of Tengchou and Chefoo to foreign residence, the Protestant started looking at Shantung. The Foreign Mission Board of Southern Baptist Convention sent Rev. J. L. Holmes to Chefoo, Shantung in 1859, which started the prelude to the activities of Southern Baptist Convention in modern Shantung nearly a century.The activities of Southern Baptist Convention in Shantung began in Chefoo and Tengchou, then expanded more than half of Shantung. First the time is the vertical clues of this article, trying to clear the development of the activities of Southern Baptist Convention in Shantung. Besides, with the vertical and horizontal integration, the activities of education, medical and charities, which support the missionary work, are the horizontal clues of the article, trying to study the activities of Southern Baptist Convention in Shantung comprehensively and objectively and discourse the impact of Southern Baptist Convention on modern Shantung. This article also expounds some extraordinary missionaries of Southern Baptist Convention to comprehend the role and effect of missionaries in the society of modern Shantung in order to evaluate the missionary comprehensively and objectively.