Shaanxi Christian Mission Society Social Ministry Research (1876-1952)

After the Opium War, by virtue of a series of unequal treaties, the Christian poor mass into China, in the coastal developed, began to preach to the inland. Since1876Christian China’s mainland Shaanxi, there have been ten Christian Missionary Society in three columns into southern Shaanxi, Shaanxi, Guanzhong area in northern Shaanxi.Christian Missionary Society missionaries based on the purpose of preaching the gospel, to absorb of Protestants and expansion of the Senate, to carry out a series of educational, medical and charitable ministry.Christian Missionary Society in Shaanxi established a set of educational system from primary school, middle school to high school, the first of the first Shaanxi Girls’ Secondary School, improved social climate of Shaanxi, and promote the development of the Shaanxi Education Modernization; health ministry, the founder of Western hospitals, clinics and other medical institutions, to promote the development of Shaanxi advanced medical management system and the establishment of the modern health care system; vigorously carry out the charity Save the Children and famine relief ministry, has played a positive relief Shaanxi effect.Development and the rise of Shaanxi Christian Missionary Society social ministry, the the Shaanxi local Christians by the impact of the Christian doctrine of the "love", under the guidance of the concept of "self-help" also founded a series of social ministry, Shaanxi folk charity career development played an important role. But at the same time Shaanxi Christian Missionary Society to run education, health care, and in the name of charity, illegal seizure of people’s real estate, produced some negative effects.