David Howard Adeney

David Howard Adeney (3 November 1911 – 11 May 1994) was a British Protestant Christian missionary and university evangelist in Hunan, China and East Asia. He served with the China Inland Mission (CIM), InterVarsity Fellowship, and International Fellowship of Evangelical Students (IFES). In 1968 he founded the Discipleship Training Centre (DTC) in Singapore.

Life and Ministry Born into a missionary family in Bedford, England on 3 November 1911, Adeney decided to become a missionary to China, following the path of his parents who had worked in Romania with the London Jews' Society. He was educated at Monkton Combe School, Somerset, UK, and completed an MA in theology and history at Queens' College, Cambridge, UK in 1933.

Between 1934 and 1914, he was involved in church planting in rural villages in central China. and left for the United States due to the attack on Pearl Harbor. During his stay in the U.S., he worked in InterVarsity for a year, before moving back in China and being appointed as the associate general secretary of China InterVarsity Christian Fellowship.

He founded DTC in Singapore, an institution first initiated by the CIM, to train university graduates in theology.

Works Primary Sources David H. Adeney, The Unchanging Commission (1955) David H. Adeney, Before Missionary Service (1967) David H. Adeney, China: Christian Students Face the Revolution (1973) David H. Adeney, China, the Church's Long March (1985)

Secondary Sources Carolyn Armitage, Reaching for the Goal: The Life Story of David Adeney (1993)