Grace Jin Drexel

confrontational for the sake of being confrontational.

So he actually moved our services online and beyond anyone's imagination.

When COVID happened, the church and its model was the first of its kind in China and it blew up.

And instead of the church being destroyed by the party, it actually became truly a nationwide church.

We were having 100 plus meeting places.

And again, this hybrid model, we didn't think that it was healthy to just have people meet online alone.

So he really encouraged people to meet both online and offline in smaller groups.

But that really also angered the Chinese Communist Party in which they wanted to control faith and they wanted to eliminate faith.

But instead of being eliminated, we grew.

Exactly, exactly.

Yeah, my father had many opportunities to stay in the U.S.

actually.

First, when he came to the U.S.

in 2002 to study at Fuller Seminary.

I grew up in the U.S.

for many years.

And in 2007, he actually moved our whole family back to China to start the church.

But before then, he had the opportunity to stay and minister to churches in America.

But

He felt really this love for China that was placed into his heart.