Andrew Gih

The Bethel Evangelistic Band, a significant Christian movement in 1920s China, played a crucial role in spreading the faith, with Beatrice Chung as one of its prominent members.

[1] After gaining an interest in evangelistic activities under the influence of the preaching of Paget Wilkes,[2] Gih was initially associated with the Bethel Mission in Shanghai, founded by the Chinese medical doctor, Mary Stone, and the American missionary, Jennie Hughes.

[3][4] In 1933, Sung left the movement, and Gih continued it by using again the name Bethel Mission until 1947, when he founded the Evangelize China Fellowship (ECF) and the Mandarin Church in Shanghai.

After the Communist victory in China's civil war, he moved to Hong Kong, and asked his co-worker Paul Shen to establish ECF in Taiwan, where he also opened an orphanage.

[4] In 1950, he received an honorary doctorate from Oregon Bible Seminary in the United States and, in the next year, he began an evangelistic tour in Southeast Asia, traveling to the Philippines, Indonesia, Singapore, and Malaysia.