I grew up in Busan, South Korea, graduated from the Chemistry Department of National Taiwan Normal University, and was the chemistry teacher of the local Chinese high school. 

On Easter Day 1978, I stood in front of the brothers and sisters of the Chinese Baptist Church in Busan, South Korea. I was baptized and witnessed to be a believer in Christ. I then began to lead the youth fellowship of the church. 

In 1981, my wife and I immigrated to the United States and lived in California, Indiana and Missouri. We have been attending ECBC since 1990 as our spiritual home. We have three sons who were also baptized here to become Christians. I received a Master of Arts in Biblical Studies from the Global Chinese Bible Institute in Hong Kong from 2013 to 2018 and was called by God to become a preacher in ECBC in February 2017.

Before being converted to be a Christian, I thought I had to rely on myself for everything. I was regarded as a materialist and atheist. I was also a member of the Communist Party.

However, I often heard the miraculous testimonies from my foreign Christian colleagues. In January 1996, I came to the United States to study. I was astonished that an American couple drove on the snowy and icy roads for hours to pick me up at the airport. Soon I was invited to the Pittsburg State University Campus Fellowship. All kinds of such testimonies and amazing love touched my heart so deeply. At the Winter Conference on the Christmas Day of that year, I couldn’t help responding to God’s call and marching forward to accept Jesus as my Lord and Savior.

After becoming a Christian, I experienced the living testimonies of the 90-year-old white American Pastor Hunker in our church. My relationship with the Lord is getting closer and closer. I served as a deacon for nine years. I had a heart attack in November 2008. But thank God for saving my life. After that, I got even more zealous for the Lord. I have been serving full-time in this church since April of the following year. I joined Global Media Outreach (GMO) and soon reached out to 760 seekers and did over 2000 online counseling or preaching through emails. In 2017, I answered the call from the Lord to begin with online master’s degree in theological studies through Midwestern Theological Seminary and satisfied all the required courses for the degree in December 2019. Now I am serving the Lord and awaiting God’s higher call to do His work to win more souls and bless more people. Gold bless all who read my bio.

I was born in Chongqing, China in 1943. I moved with my family to Taiwan where I was educated. I graduated from National Taiwan Normal University in 1965 majored in physics.

I first heard the gospel at age ten when a classmate invited me to Sunday School of a church nearby. Youth and strong interest in science kept me from becoming a believer. In 1969, I came to US for graduate study. I started to think about deeper life issues. One day, alone in my home, I prayed to receive Jesus as my personal savior. I was baptized in the Fall of 1975. 

I took my faith seriously and served Him zealously wherever I lived: Lincoln, St. Paul, Kansas City, and Fort Worth. I longed to serve the Lord more completely. An invitation from ECBC to be a minister confirmed God’s call. I responded by resigning from BNSF in 1996 to serve as an Evangelist at ECBC while studying in Midwestern Baptist Theological Seminary. I graduated in the Summer of 1999 and was ordained as the pastor of ECBC. 

In 2011, I retired from the position of Sr. Pastor and become an itinerant preacher to serve many churches & fellowships in the midwestern area.

I met Jesus in 1971, one year after I came to study Chemistry at Marquette University, Milwaukee from Taiwan and shortly after my salvation, I committed to be His disciple. At the same time, God arranged for Sandy, who was from Hong Kong, to come to Milwaukee to be my wife. We have indeed had a good life in the U.S. by the grace of the Lord: with an excellent education, blessed family (wife Sandy, son Matthew, daughter Wenny, daughter-in-law Yulan, son-in-law Ari, and four granddaughters: Lauren, Grace, Joy and Stephanie and grandson Solomon) and loving churches. The Lord has blessed my career more abundantly than I could ever image in my life. In the past over forty years, God has been training me not only as a good scientist and professor, but also to be a good soldier of Christ. During my long, ten-year seminary study and training at Midwestern Baptist Theological Seminary (1992-2002), the Lord called and enlisted me as one of His Christian soldiers as in 1 Tim 6:12. In 2011, I responded to God’s calling to serve at this loving church as Senior Pastor. A focused goal of our current objectives is to press forward towards ECBC’s Vision 2020 : To become a Christ centered church with 500 plus regular worship attendance by 2020, ministering primarily to the Chinese community. We sincerely welcome you to join your hands and hearts with us at ECBC for the glory of Jesus Christ. God bless you.

His servants,
Jerry and Sandy Jean