Music in Chinese Evangelism
Ian Anderson (in center, with raised chopsticks)
with a group of Chinese evangelists. They are having breakfast
before going out to preach. Shenqiu, Henan province, China. 1938.
Ian Anderson was a worker with the China Inland Mission (later the Overseas Missionary Fellowship). He often visited villages to do the equivalent of American street corner evangelism - presenting a brief and easy-to-understand version of the gospel of salvation through Jesus Christ to any crowd he could gather or to any passerby. Music and posters were essential parts of these presentations.
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to hear an audio recording, made ca. 1980, of Anderson singing and explaining the songs he used in village evangelism
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to visit a page showing some of the posters he used in his evangelism work.