Bethel Mission, Shanghai

[1] After receiving her medical degree at the University of Michigan in 1896, the Chinese medical doctor and bible woman Shi Meiyu returned to China and practiced medicine in the Danforth Memorial Hospital run by the Methodist Episcopal Church beginning in 1901.

However, she eventually became disillusioned by the amount of foreign control on the hospital and the liberal theology of the mission.

While the nurse worked, the Bible woman preached, and in this way hundreds of people heard of Christianity for the first time.

.What we need now is an efficient force of trained evangelistic workers to ... follow up the seed thus sown broadcast on such receptive soil.

According to the historian Lian Xi, in a single year, the band held over 1,000 meetings, preaching to over 425,000 people in 13 provinces.