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There is a building with "China Inland Mission" on it in Newington Green, London, UK, if someone wishes to take the picture and place it on this page.

There you go - I've dumped my pic from Mildmay on to the page. It's not great, light was failing and you might want to recaption it. Tarquin Binary 12:30, 16 October 2005 (UTC)

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[edit] German Article needs to be translated

DONE!! --PeterR 18:21, 19 September 2005 (UTC) The material from the corresponding German language article de:China-Inland-Mission could be translated and added to the English one. A request for this was already on the page: Wikipedia:German-English translation requests before I started the stub for this page today. Strangely there was already a talk page for China Inland Mission before there was an article/stub. --PeterR 22:09, 16 September 2005 (UTC)


I had come across the building - and my German was not up to translating from the other article. Hope this explains the talk page before the article. The organisation exists under another name.

A webpage: http://www.mundus.ac.uk/cats/4/903.htm

Jackiespeel 15:52, 13 October 2005 (UTC)

[edit] German Article needs to be translated

Infos to the German Aricle

Dear PeterR,

the right Name is William Chalmer Burns. You ca see it on the Hyperlink. There is a article about Burns. You can use and translate all my articles in wikipedia: The articles of Hudson-Taylor, China-Inland-Mission, Dr. Karl Gützlaff, Robert Morrison, D.L.Moody, Ira D. Sankey, Franz Eugen Schlachter usw.

--User:KHKauffmann 19:25, 19 September 2005 (Germ)

[edit] Picture

Personally I think it is misleading to have this picture with the CIM article, unless it is described say, as "The previous London headquarters". It is true that the building has "China Inland Mission" on it, and was once the London headquarters of CIM. But it was never the international headquarters. These were based in Shanghai until CIM left China. Moreover, OMF/CIM no longer owns the Newington Green property. It was sold a long time ago.

Awb49 17 Jul 06

Can the picture text be altered to reflect the above (or a brief entry in the main text). There are two "cartouche"s in Chinese script in the main entrance - I presume providing a translation. Jackiespeel 17:13, 21 August 2006 (UTC)

[edit] 39 different categories?

How can this article belong to 39 different categories? Many of these have to be removed, unless the article is expanded and somehow able to show how they are related. At the moment I see very little or no relation to categories of Southeast Asian nations any other than Singapore. So I'm removing these: Religion in Myanmar, Religion in Thailand, Religion in the Philippines, Religion in Malaysia, Religion in Indonesia, Religion in Vietnam, Religion in Cambodia, Religion in Laos --Melanochromis 18:47, 31 October 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Name of Article

Isn't it more appropriate to name an article based on the organization's current name? The current official name is OMF International. Anyone know when they changed the name from Overseas Missionary Fellowship to OMF International? AZard. 18 Nov 06

[edit] Fair use rationale for Image:Chinas Millions 1885.jpg

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BetacommandBot 04:46, 16 September 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Borneo Evangelical Mission

Although OMF is largely the CIM, it also includes the "Borneo Evangelical Mission" (BEM). But there doesn't seem to be any mention of it; that section of the family tree seems absent. Could this be supplied?

Feline Hymnic 20:15, 25 October 2007 (UTC)

Here is a start - see Borneo Evangelical Mission.Brian0324 20:37, 25 October 2007 (UTC)


Many thanks. I've added a couple of ISBNs. Feline Hymnic 21:47, 25 October 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Fair use rationale for Image:Christ Alone.jpg

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BetacommandBot (talk) 07:02, 1 January 2008 (UTC)

[edit] Neutrality

This article, from the introduction, appears to be biased and not to offer the neutral view wikipedia seeks. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 74.237.239.40 (talk) 00:42, 26 March 2008 (UTC)