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This independent church is an offshoot or breakaway from the first wave of the Pentecostal movement in
the United States during the early 1900s. Pentecostal missionaries from the Azusa Street Revival were the
first to arrive in Hong Kong as early as October 1907. The Pentecostal movement in China spread through
Protestant organizations that were already established, leading to the creation of the True Jesus Church and
many others.[1]
The True Jesus Church was also later established in Taiwan in 1926. Presently there are more than three
hundred churches and prayer houses in Taiwan.
They began arranging small group hymn singing sessions in Shanghai so many Chinese refer to them as the
small group and they were known (or the nickname) as the Little Flock, and because at that time, they were
still using the Plymouth Brethren's Hymn Book called Little Flock Hymn Book.
See also
Japanese Independent Churches
References
1. Espinosa, Gaston. "William J. Seymour and the Origins of Global Pentecostalism." Duke
University Press, 2014, p.89.
2. "Jing Dianying 敬奠瀛 (1890-1957)" (https://web.archive.org/web/20110615054402/http://ric
ci.rt.usfca.edu/biography/view.aspx?biographyID=1581). Ricci Roundtable on the History of
Christianity in China. Archived from the original (http://ricci.rt.usfca.edu/biography/view.asp
x?biographyID=1581) on 2011-06-15. Retrieved 2022-11-22.
3. Bays, Daniel (2012). A New History of Christianity in China (https://archive.org/details/newhi
storychrist00bays). Malden, MA: Wiley-Blackwell. pp. 130 (https://archive.org/details/newhist
orychrist00bays/page/n138).
4. Kaplan, Steven (1994). Indigenous Responses to Western Christianity. NYU Press.
pp. 129–140. ISBN 0-8147-4649-7.