It is now 160 years since Hudson Taylor launched his famous and transformative missionary movement.
It was on 25 June 1865 that he prayed on Brighton beach for 24 “willing, skillful workers” to take the gospel to those with the fewest opportunities to hear it in the inland provinces of China.
That moment marked the founding of the China Inland Mission (CIM), which became OMF International. Today the mission continues because, as OMF General Director Dr Joseph Chang observes: “The task of sharing the fullness of the gospel to and from, through and with East Asia’s peoples remains unfinished. So many in this region have yet to know the Lord, and many churches are striving to serve Him faithfully.”
