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[[File:TJCFujian.jpg|right|thumb|200px|The True Jesus Church located in [[Fujian]], China.]]
The '''True Jesus Church''' is a [[Non-denominational Christianity|non-denominational Christian church]] that originated in [[Beijing]], China, in 1917. The current elected chairman of the TJC International Assembly is Preacher Yong-Ji Lin.<ref>Chinese: 林永基</ref> Today, there are approximately 2.5 million members<ref>Although the Los Angeles based IA church website sta(contracted; show full)
After the [[Opium War]] in the 1840s missionaries from all over the world began to arrive in China. [[Hudson Taylor]] founded the [[China Inland Mission]] in 1865.

The 19th century witnessed a great increase in the number of Christians. In 1900 there were almost 111,000 Protestant Christians with 1,600 Chinese Christian workers and 2,000 missionaries.

=== The origins of TJC ===
The three early workers of the True Jesus Church were [[Paul Wei]],<ref>Chinese name: 魏保羅</ref> [[
Ling-Sheng ZhaZhang Lingsheng]],<ref>Chinese name: 張靈生</ref> and later [[Barnabas Zhang]].<ref>Chinese name: 張巴拿巴</ref> According to the church history, Paul was led by the [[Holy Spirit]] to be baptized in [[Yongding River]],<ref>Chinese name: 永定河</ref> West of Beijing, near the site of [[Marco Polo Bridge]] <ref>Chinese: 盧溝橋</ref> where the beginning of the [[Second Sino-Japanese War|Sino-Japanese War]] had started later.

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