He then went on to the middle school at Trinity College in Fuzhou, where he demonstrated great intelligence and ambition. In 1916, at age 13, Nee entered the Church Missionary Society Vernacular Middle School in Fuzhou, Fujian province to begin his Western-style education. Since Nee's parents were both Methodists, he was baptized by a bishop of the Methodist Church as an infant. During a stint at the Chinese Western Girls' School in Shanghai to improve her English, Lin He-Ping met Dora Yu, a young woman who gave up a potential career in medicine to serve as an evangelist and preacher. His grandfather was a gifted Anglican preacher. Watchman Nee was born on November 4, 1903, the third of nine children of Ni Weng-hsiu, a well-respected officer in the Imperial Customs Service, and Lin He-Ping (Peace Lin), who excelled as a child at an American-staffed Methodist mission school.
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