The First Foochow Christian Convert. Ting Ang or Ting Ing Ko. Changle man.
Otis Gibson
was born on a farm in Moira, New York. He converted at the age of 13 and when he was 19 he joined the Methodist Episcopal Church. After he graduated with a doctorate in divinity in 1854, he was appointed a missionary to Foochow. He had just married his wife Eliza a few months before they were sent to China!
In 1856, Otis Gibson and his co workers established two churches in Fuzhou City, Church of the True God
*Jing Zuo Tong) and Church of Heavenly Peace (Tien Ang Tong). A day after Christmas the same year,
he purchased a place in the South Bank of Min River . By 1859 he bult a western boarding school for
laymen and ministers.
In 1860's he helped in the translation work of the Bible and other Christian books into the local Foochow dialect.
In 1857 He and Robert Maclay baptized their first convert, Ting Ang who got rid of all the idols in his home.
He also started the Methodist mission in Yeng Ping (Nanping) in 1864
He had to leave China because his wife was very ill. Nathan Sites and other Methodist missionaries continued
his good work.
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