Charles L. Culpepper (1895–1971). Born in 1895 in the United States, Charles L. Culpepper was a Southern Baptist missionary and key figure in the Shantung Revival in China during the 1920s and 1930s. Raised in a Christian family, he converted early and felt called to missions, graduating from Southwestern Baptist Theological Seminary. Appointed by the Southern Baptist Foreign Mission Board, he arrived in China in 1920 with his wife, Ola, serving in Shantung Province. His preaching, initially hindered by pride, transformed during the 1932 revival after confessing spiritual dryness, leading to thousands of conversions, including at the North China Baptist Theological Seminary, where he was president, growing enrollment from four to over 150. Culpepper’s sermons, emphasizing repentance and the Holy Spirit, fueled the revival’s spread. Expelled by communists in 1949, he served as treasurer of the Hong Kong Baptist Mission, then president of Taiwan Baptist Theological Seminary until retiring in 1965. He authored The Shantung Revival (1971), documenting the awakening. Father to Mary and Charles Jr., both missionaries, he died in 1971 in San Antonio, Texas, saying, “Revival begins with brokenness before God.”