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.
The Jesus Family is a unique Pentecostal communitarian church first established in Shandong province in the late 1920s.
Today, many of them constitute a significant portion of what is generally termed the house church movement in China, because after 1949, with the arrival of Communist control and departure of all foreign missionaries, all Chinese Christian denominations had become independent.