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

On Easter Sunday in 1978, I stood before the brothers and sisters of the Chinese Baptist Church in Busan, South Korea. I was baptized and publicly testified as a believer in Christ. After that, I began leading the church’s youth fellowship.

In 1981, my wife and I immigrated to the United States and lived in California, Indiana, and Missouri. Since 1990, we have considered ECBC our spiritual home. We have three sons, all of whom were baptized here and became Christians.

From 2013 to 2018, I earned a Master of Arts in Biblical Studies from the Global Chinese Bible Institute in Hong Kong. In February 2017, I was called by God to become a preacher at ECBC.

Before becoming a Christian, I believed I had to rely on myself for everything. I was regarded as a materialist and an atheist, and I was also a member of the Communist Party.

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

After becoming a Christian, I witnessed the living testimony of Pastor Hunker, a 90-year-old white American pastor in our church. My relationship with the Lord grew closer and closer. I served as a deacon for nine years. In November 2008, I had a heart attack, but I thank God for saving my life. After that, my zeal for the Lord grew even stronger. I began serving full-time at this church in April of the following year.

I also joined Global Media Outreach (GMO) and soon reached out to 760 seekers, conducting over 2,000 online counseling and preaching sessions via email. In 2017, I answered the Lord’s call to pursue an online master’s degree in theological studies through Midwestern Theological Seminary, completing all the required courses in December 2019. Now, I continue serving the Lord while awaiting His higher call to win more souls and bless more people.

May God bless all who read my testimony.

I was born in Chongqing, China, in 1943. I moved with my family to Taiwan, where I received my education. I graduated from National Taiwan Normal University in 1965 with a major in physics.

I first heard the gospel at the age of ten when a classmate invited me to a nearby church’s Sunday School. However, my youth and strong interest in science kept me from becoming a believer. In 1969, I came to the United States for graduate studies and began to reflect on deeper life issues. One day, while alone at 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 the Lord zealously wherever I lived, including Lincoln, St. Paul, Kansas City, and Fort Worth. I longed to serve Him more fully. An invitation from ECBC to become a minister confirmed God’s call. In response, I resigned from BNSF in 1996 to serve as a pastor-in-training at ECBC while pursuing studies at Midwestern Baptist Theological Seminary. I graduated in the summer of 1999 and was ordained as the pastor of ECBC.

In 2011, In 2011, I retired from my position as Senior Pastor and became an itinerant preacher, serving many churches and fellowships throughout the Midwest.

I met Jesus in 1971, one year after coming from Taiwan to study chemistry at Marquette University in Milwaukee. Shortly after my salvation, I committed to being His disciple. Around the same time, God brought Sandy, who was from Hong Kong, to Milwaukee to become my wife.

By the grace of the Lord, we have had a truly blessed life in the U.S.—with an excellent education, a wonderful family (my wife Sandy, our son Matthew, our daughter Wenny, our daughter-in-law Yulan, our son-in-law Ari, four granddaughters: Lauren, Grace, Joy, and Stephanie, and our grandson Solomon), and loving churches. The Lord has blessed my career more abundantly than I could have ever imagined.

For over forty years, God has been training me not only to be a good scientist and professor but also to be a faithful soldier of Christ. During my ten years of seminary study and training at Midwestern Baptist Theological Seminary (1992–2002), the Lord called and enlisted me as one of His Christian soldiers, as written in 1 Timothy 6:12.

In 2011, I responded to God’s calling to serve this loving church as Senior Pastor. One of our key objectives is to press forward toward ECBC’s Vision 2020: to become a Christ-centered church with 500+ regular worship attendees by 2020, ministering primarily to the Chinese community.

We sincerely welcome you to join hands and hearts with us at ECBC for the glory of Jesus Christ. God bless you!