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About Parley Gulbrandsen
- Parley Birger Gulbrandsen Eugen (Chinese: ???, pinyin: Jin Baolì, born October 30, 1889 in Christiania, died 1959 in Norway) was a Norwegian missionary to China affiliated with the Norwegian Evangelical Mission (NEM) which belonged to the Pentecostal movement.
- He was the brother of Henry Gulbrandsen, who was also a missionary to China.
- After coming in contact with a Pentecostal meeting at the Filadelfia Assembly in Christiania, Gulbrandsen studied their teachings at the mission's home in Stabekk during 1909.
- Afterwards he studied at the Bible Training Institute in Glasgow in Scotland.
- In September 1910, he went to China, and worked in the North Chihli Mission until 1914.
- He was active in the Longmen district (???).
- In 1916, he joined Norwegian Free Evangelical Mission Association (Norges Frie Evangeliske Missionsforbund, NFEH), launched by the Pentecostal Movement in Norway the previous year.
- When this mission was dissolved in 1934, the former Norwegian missionaries of the NFEH were directly supported by local churches in Norway.
- Parley Gulbrandsen was in charge for the work at Xinbao'an (???) in Zhili (later part of Chahar).
- This work, which was begun in 1916, became known as the Norwegian mission in Sinpaoan.
- In Norway, the work was supported by the Filadelfia Saint Olavsgt.
- 24 in Oslo.
- Gulbrandsen later worked in the Xuanhua District, Longguan and Beijing.
- He returned to Norway in the 1948 and died in 1959.
- Parley Gulbrandsen had in 1911 married Christina Beruldsen in China.
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