Wang Laijun

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Wang Laijun
Pastor and Missionary
Born	unknown Ningbo, China
Died	unknown possibly Hangzhou, China

Wang Laijun (王来俊) was a Chinese Protestant Christian pastor and missionary in Hangzhou, Zhejiang, China in the late 1800s. He was converted to Christianity in Ningbo under the ministry of James Hudson Taylor before the founding of the China Inland Mission. He accompanied the Taylor family to London, England in 1860 as a helper and language tutor for new missionaries. He also assisted Taylor and Frederick Foster Gough in the revision of the Ningbo dialect New Testament in Romanized colloquial.

While in England, Wang met the famous London Baptist preacher, Charles Spurgeon, accompanied by Taylor. Together they influenced Spurgeon to promote the cause of missionary work in China with his sermons and writings.

Taylor also brought Wang to meet the Bristol orphanage founder George Muller who would later fund one third of the China Inland Mission budget in the following years of 1866-1871.

After returning to China he was appointed pastor of the church in Hangzhou begun by the China Inland Mission in 1866-1867. He served as a pastor for 40 years.