中國內地會成立之初，每個新年前夕都會舉辦守歲聚會。各位內地會成員届時會聚在一起，爲中國及其事工的緣故禁食禱告。內地會在華的第一個新年夜之前，團隊內部關係已趨劍拔弩張。

1849 年 6 月，17 歲的戴德生在百無聊賴中讀了一本小册子，由此與基督建立了個人關係。戴氏"漸漸……確信耶穌已經爲他戴德生做成了一切必要之工。他自己除了接受‘基督所成之工’以外，再不必做什麽……"。在隨後的數月中，戴氏

約1850年的上海外灘。根據戴德生於多年後的回憶，他在中國的第一年過得極其艱難，常伴他的有“寒冷甚至饑餓，和時刻警惕的需要，還有危機四伏的不眠之夜和單獨無助時的心頭滋味”。然而，神的同在

1866年9月30日，一艘受損嚴重的倫敦籍快帆船蘭茂密爾號（Lammermuir）艱難地駛入上海港。船上載有戴德生及瑪麗亞夫婦、他們的4名子女和16名新抵達中國的宣教士。這艘船的到港是對無數禱告的有力回應。為“蘭茂密爾團隊”（Lammermuir Party）製作的中英文禱告卡

After Hudson Taylor first arrived in China, he made numerous preaching trips to Jiangsu and Zhejiang provinces. For his eighth trip, Taylor had special plans. The night before, he had his head shaved and his hair dyed in Haiyan. Then on Friday, August 24th, Taylor had a month’s hair growth

While giving birth to their ninth child in a China increasingly hostile towards foreigners, Hudson Taylor’s wife Maria contracted cholera. The newborn Noel was frail and Maria’s decline was also rapid. 13 days later, Noel died. And on July 23rd, just a few days after, Maria Taylor passed away. These

On June 25th 1865, Hudson Taylor walked alone on Brighton beach in internal turmoil. In 1859, health reasons necessitated his return home to London from China. As ‘an invalid in London’, Taylor, together with his wife, compiled materials that eventually came together as the book China: Its Spiritual Need and

A little over three years after Hudson Taylor’s arrival in China as the first missionary sent by the Chinese Evangelisation Society, Taylor resigned from the Society. He had known for some time that the Society was running a debt of more than £1000 pounds (the equivalent of USD$215,000 today). Remittances