Christian missionaries family missionary activities in China

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At Christian missionaries firstly coming to China, they met the problems of language barrier. So they employed some Chinese people to help them, and these people then became their earliest objectives of missionary activities. When a missionary family was to have religious ceremonies or other activities, the missionary would invite other people to attend the events so as to enlarge his scope of missionary activities.
Later there were more and more participants. Not only the family members and servants of the missionaries, but also their neighbors, friends and relatives would join in. They used to gather at a missionary's or a believer's home on Sundays to have religious services or other religious activities.
The characteristic of family missionary activities was that the missionaries took advantage of a relaxed family atmosphere and intimate personal relations to disseminate Christianity. In such a cozy and secret atmosphere, people would easily accept Christianity. At the beginning of modern times, it did help the missionaries find a channel through which Chinese could get to know and accept the God.