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In 1979, Pastor Jian Zhu became a Christian at the Changsha House Church in China. He was called to serve in 1983 while he

was still a college student in China. In 1989 he was ordained as Preacher at the New Mexico Crestview Chinese Baptist Church.

Later in 1991, Pastor Zhu initiated and co-founded the earliest Mainland Chinese church in America, and have served as its

Pastor until today. His main ministry focus has been spiritual formation, church pasturing, as well as Kingdom networking.

Throughout his 40 years of faith journey, Pastor Zhu owes deep debt of his spiritual development to the 2000 years of historical

Christian tradition*. Between 1979 and 1986 Pastor Zhu participated in the forming and services of the first campus ministry in

Hubei Province in China. During that time, he was mentored by the then nationally well-known house church leaders of Lan

Zhiyi, and Gideon Xu. In 1986, Pastor Zhu came to America to study at the University of New Mexico, and had been for a long

while closely trained and mentored by the national house church leader Benjamin Huang. Pastor Zhu had also been deeply

influenced by internationally known Christian leader Stephen Kaung (Richmond, Virginia).

During his long, personal journey of theological exploration, Pastor Zhu has dedicated his focal devotional studies to the core

teachings of those internationally known Chinese Christian leaders, such as Philip Teng, Thomas Wang, Stephen Tong, and

Jonathan Chao. He has also had many years of meditated studies on a variety of iconic teachings of those well-received

Chinese Christian leaders of the current time. Gradually Pastor Zhu has formed his unique and integrated framework of

theological thinking and ministry application, clarified as “Scripture, Spirit, and Saints”, the three major Christian traditions in

one. This framework has helped himself and others in anttempt to discern some of the chronological symptoms of church

cultures among the North American Chinese community churches. In his early ministry apprenticeship, Pastor Zhu was

mentored by the wel-known Chinese church leader of Edward Su.

In 1983, Pastor Zhu received a clear vision of Kingdom networking while he was still in Wuhan college campus. Since then,

Pastor Zhu has been involved in the strategic planning, or co-founding in the initiation, or being invited to the joint service of

the following ministries, such as the Overseas Chinese School of Servanthood**, Life Quarterly Magazine, North America

Mainland Chinese Mission (currently the Chinese Pastors’ Fellowship), the Better Homaland Concert***, Excelsis,

International Chinese Enterpreneur Association****, Forum on Christian Faith of the Chinese Intellectuals**, Lincoln

Christian University China Institute, America China Civic Exchange***, BILD and Antioch Chinese Program, Niagara Falls

Retreat***, School of Chinese House Church Pastors Leadership Training, etc. Pastor Zhu has published several small

booklets, such as Pastoral Ministry (Overseas Campus, 2000), and Devotion Practise (Chinese Pastors Fellowship, 2018). He

has also produced over 100 Episodes of “God’s Fingerprints” and “Knowing God’s Will” as YouTube ministry teaching.

Pastor Zhu’s wife Rebecca Chan, is also an ordained pastor at the local church. Their son Samuel Zhu, after graduated from

Duke University, received his calling to serve as camups minister. He has now joined InterVarsity ministry and founded an

Asian chapter at the North Carolina State University, as its minister.

*This is a very broad framework of description regarding Christian tradition. An attempt is made here to explain the “2000

years of historical Christian tradition” narrative, by using Richard Foster’s combined categories of both “the Contemplative

Tradition” and “the Evangelical Tradition”. (Richard Foster, Streams of Living Water: Celebrating the Great Traditions of

Christian Faith , HarperSanFrancisco, 1998)

**Mission accomplished or project objective met before closure;

***Ministry become inactive due to either Covic, geo-political landscape change, or other unspecified reasons;

****Ministry restructured or regrouped that has no further connection with its original ministry.