 In addition, the mission founded a station in 1903 to work with the Tai peoples of eastern Burma in Kengtung, which was closed in 1907; and it founded another station, the Chiang Rung Station, in Yunnan Province, southern China in 1917.The mission founded its first church, Chiang Mai Church, now known simply as First Church, Chiang Mai, in 1868.After a brief period of evangelistic success, the mission underwent a time of persecution in 1869, during which two converts were martyred.