The Assembly Hall (Juhuichu or Juhuisuo) or "Little Flock" (Xiao-qun), was organized in the mid-1920s and led before 1937 by Ni Tuosheng (Watchman Nee, 1903—72). Ni’s name is familiar to many Christians around the world because several of his talks and a few of his writings have been translated and published abroad since the 1930s; many are still available, and widely read, today. From the mid- …
Melton, J. Gordon
The group that is variously known as the Little Flock or the Local Church was founded in the 1920s in China by Ni Tuosheng, popularly known by the English translation of his name, Watchman Nee (1903–1972). Nee was born into a Chinese Christian family, his grandfather serving as a Congregationalist minister and his parents faithful Methodists. He changed his given name, Ni Tuosheng …
Hanks, Geoffrey
Watchman Nee (1903-1972) - Chinese Pastor and Preacher. Born into a nominally Christian family, Nee was converted at the age of eighteen while still a student at Trinity College, an Anglican high school in Foochow. Abandoning any prospect of a university education, he gave himself to Bible study and evangelism, and many students were won to Christ. Before long he began to display two gifts …
Lyall, Leslie
On David Yang, Watchman Nee, and Wang Ming-dao: All three saw clearly the Pauline truth of the Church, local and universal. But they all reacted against the importation from the West of our denominational confusion. They longed to see a truly Chinese pattern of church life firmly based on the New Testament concept of the Body of Christ. One or other may have reacted too strongly against the missio …
Chan, Kim-Kwong, and Alan Hunter.
The other major indigenous church is properly known as the Local Assemblies, although it is usually called 'Little Flock' by outsiders. Founded in 1928, and with no support at all from missions, it had some 70,000 members by 1949 and is still influential today. Its founder was a dynamic and controversial Fujianese called Ni Tuosheng, better known in English as Watchman Nee. While still a student …
Swanson, Allen J.
The rise of the Assembly Hall Church signaled yet another reaction against Western Christianity and foreign domination, comparative late comer on the scene, it nevertheless in a short twenty-eight years, with neither Western men nor money, established another of the large churches in mainland China. The spiritual leader behind this movement was a dynamic man by the name of Nee Tuo Sheng, better …
Bays, Daniel H., ed.
The Assembly Hall (Juhuichu or Juhuisuo) or "Little Flock" (Xiao-qun), was organized in the mid-1920s and led before 1937 by Ni Tuosheng (Watchman Nee, 1903—72). Ni’s name is familiar to many Christians around the world because several of his talks and a few of his writings have been translated and published abroad since the 1930s; many are still available, and widely read, today. From the mid- …
Melton, J. Gordon
The group that is variously known as the Little Flock or the Local Church was founded in the 1920s in China by Ni Tuosheng, popularly known by the English translation of his name, Watchman Nee (1903–1972). Nee was born into a Chinese Christian family, his grandfather serving as a Congregationalist minister and his parents faithful Methodists. He changed his given name, Ni Tuosheng …
Hanks, Geoffrey
Watchman Nee (1903-1972) - Chinese Pastor and Preacher. Born into a nominally Christian family, Nee was converted at the age of eighteen while still a student at Trinity College, an Anglican high school in Foochow. Abandoning any prospect of a university education, he gave himself to Bible study and evangelism, and many students were won to Christ. Before long he began to display two gifts …
Lyall, Leslie
On David Yang, Watchman Nee, and Wang Ming-dao: All three saw clearly the Pauline truth of the Church, local and universal. But they all reacted against the importation from the West of our denominational confusion. They longed to see a truly Chinese pattern of church life firmly based on the New Testament concept of the Body of Christ. One or other may have reacted too strongly against the missio …
Chan, Kim-Kwong, and Alan Hunter.
The other major indigenous church is properly known as the Local Assemblies, although it is usually called 'Little Flock' by outsiders. Founded in 1928, and with no support at all from missions, it had some 70,000 members by 1949 and is still influential today. Its founder was a dynamic and controversial Fujianese called Ni Tuosheng, better known in English as Watchman Nee. While still a student …
Swanson, Allen J.
The rise of the Assembly Hall Church signaled yet another reaction against Western Christianity and foreign domination, comparative late comer on the scene, it nevertheless in a short twenty-eight years, with neither Western men nor money, established another of the large churches in mainland China. The spiritual leader behind this movement was a dynamic man by the name of Nee Tuo Sheng, better …