Career
Born in Skogn to Christopher and Brita Alfsen, Edin was employed at Det norske diakonhjem and was later enrolled at the Moody Bible Institute in the America. He journeyed to China in 1922 and became affiliated with the Norwegian Mission Alliance in Zhangjiakou (张家口), Zhili, Longmen (龙门) and Zhicheng for fourteen years. During 1925, Edin Cornelius Alfsen married Ethel Zoe Oakes in China.
Edin established the Norwegian Tibet Mission during 1938 and formed a mission station at Dajianlu (打箭炉) for six years until 1944.
In 1945, Edin worked at the Mayo Clinic in the United States from 1945 for thirteen years. He undertook a trip to Taiwan via Singapore, and later that year, to Batu Gajak in Malaysia where he established an independent mission named the South East Asia Bible Fellowship.
Edin died in Minnesota"s Dodge County in August 1966.
